News Releases

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

  • Sheffer Leads Parliamentary Reform Project In Zambia
    10/29/99
    John B. Sheffer, II, director of the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth at UB, is leading a State University of New York team that is conducting a needs assessment for the National Assembly of the Republic of Zambia.
  • UB To Establish Center For The Americas
    10/27/99
    The University at Buffalo will establish a Center for the Americas as an interdisciplinary teaching and research center in the College of Arts and Sciences to expand the university's curriculum and degree options in the field of American studies.
  • Nagi Participates In National Engineering Symposium
    10/27/99
    Rakesh Nagi, Ph.D., associate professor of industrial engineering at UB, was selected as one of the nation's top young engineers to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's Fifth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering.
  • Author Wendy Steiner To Speak At UB
    10/27/99
    Author Wendy Steiner, whose book "The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism," made The New York Times list of "100 Best Books of 1996," will speak Nov. 18 at UB.
  • Peter Buechi Elected President Of UB Engineering Alumni
    10/27/99
    Peter J. Buechi, a regional environmental remediation engineer with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), has been elected president of the UB Engineering Alumni Association.
  • Neurosurgeon Works To Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome
    10/25/99
    As a pediatric neurosurgeon at Kaleida Health's Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Mark Dias treats children who suffer from a host of diseases associated with the brain and spinal cord. But in addition to combating those serious illnesses ever day, he’s taking steps to insure that he doesn’t have to treat infants for something that could have been prevented: shaken baby syndrome.
  • Giotis Named Engineer Of The Year By UB Alumni Group
    10/22/99
    George A. Giotis, president of Flasher Handling Corp. in Depew and a 1949 graduate of UB, has been named 1999 Engineer of the Year by the UB Engineering Alumni Association.
  • UB Festival Looks At Women’s Identity And Power In Contemporary Spanish Films
    10/22/99
    The UB Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will present its second annual Spanish Film Festival Nov. 6-7 in the Center for the Arts Screening Room (Room 112) on the university's North Campus.
  • Graduate School Of Education To Hold First Alumni-Faculty Reunion
    10/22/99
    "Renewing Old Ties," the first reunion of the Graduate School of Education (GSE), will be held Nov. 6 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The program will feature awards presentations, educational sessions conducted by GSE faculty and an evening of dinner and dancing.
  • Erma Hallett Jaeckle To Be Honored By UB Law School
    10/22/99
    Erma Hallett Jaeckle, whose legal career spanned more than 40 years in the public and corporate sectors, will receive the 1999 Edwin F. Jaeckle Award, the highest honor given by the UB Law School and its Law Alumni Association, at a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.