News Releases

All of the latest news about our university. (by topic)

  • Endowment Fund Honors Former Chemistry Professor
    6/28/99
    Joseph Vacca, who received a doctorate in chemistry from UB in 1983, has established the Peter T. Lansbury Endowment Fund in honor of Lansbury, UB professor emeritus of chemistry who was his research advisor.
  • Management School Interns Gain Valuable Experience While Helping Area Companies Accomplish Key Goals
    6/28/99
    Each summer, a small platoon of fresh-faced talent marches out into the Western New York business community, eager to exchange hard work for valuable resume credentials. They are interns from the UB School of Management and their arrival is gratefully anticipated by area business owners and managers who hire the students to complete special projects, gather research or bolster their staffs.
  • UB and Sun Microsystems to Develop ‘Poor Man’s Supercomputer’
    6/25/99
    The Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo and Sun Microsystems have launched a research partnership aimed at developing a network of high-end workstations that will deliver the power of a supercomputer at a fraction of the cost.
  • Could Humans Live On Mars? Geologists Discuss Mission Landing Sites that Might Have Answers
    6/18/99
    You think finding a place to park down here is hard. Try finding a place to land on Mars. That's what a group of leading planetary geologists tried to decide June 22-23 when they met at the University at Buffalo for the Mars Surveyor 2001 Landing Site Workshop.
  • Medical Rehabilitation Conference Set for July 17-18
    6/18/99
    A conference on interpreting and understanding the results of medical rehabilitation and its cost effectiveness will be held July 17-18 in the Sheraton Inn Buffalo Airport, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga.The conference will be sponsored by the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • To Understand Mars Better, Geologists to Visit Niagara Falls
    6/18/99
    What does Niagara Falls have in common with the planet Mars? Quite a lot, geologically speaking. In fact, on June 25-26, a group of leading planetary geologists will visit Buffalo and Niagara Falls to better understand the geology of Mars.
  • Nursing School Graduates Receive Awards
    6/18/99
    Eighteen students in the School of Nursing received awards and scholarships at the school's commencement ceremony last month.
  • Advances in Information Technology Are Not Likely to Replace Books in Libraries, UB Experts Say
    6/18/99
    One aspect of the rich and complex history of human knowledge -- its recording, transmission and preservation -- has been altered irrevocably by the advancement of information technology. But the replacement of a libraries' millions of bound volumes by electronic versions is no more than a twinkle in the eye of someone who is not a librarian, University at Buffalo librarians say.
  • $200 Scholarship Inspires $100,000 Gift to Management School
    6/16/99
    Robert and Jane Yendell of Hixson, Tenn., have given $100,000 to the School of Management for the establishment of an undergraduate scholarship fund. The gift was made in remembrance of a $200 scholarship that Robert Yendell received from UB more than 50 years ago
  • Founders of UB African American Studies Department Recall Difficult History as Unit Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary
    6/16/99
    The Black Studies Program at the University at Buffalo was established in 1969, a time that one of its founders, Jim Pappas, describes as "a heady and exciting time - a time that illustrated the best and the worst of academic life." The program evolved into the Department of African American Studies in 1973 as perhaps the first truly interdisciplinary academic field of study at UB, and will celebrate its 30th anniversary in the 1999-2000 academic year.