News Releases

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

  • Patients Give Vote of Confidence to Pharmacies Operated by UB School of Pharmacy and Local Supermarket
    5/19/99
    An innovative program that operates community pharmacies jointly through the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Tops Markets, Inc., has resulted in better care for patients and better use of pharmacists' skills, and also is responsible for significantly increasing business in the pharmacies -- in one case, more than doubling the number of prescriptions filled.
  • "Smart Concrete" Would Determine Weight of Trucks as They Travel on a Highway
    5/19/99
    Truck-weighing stations on highways could become a thing of the past as a result of a new application for "smart concrete" developed by University at Buffalo engineers.
  • Pharmacy Student's Classroom Lesson Saves Life
    5/19/99
    University at Buffalo pharmacy student Brian Olney didn't expect to save anyone's life when he reported to his internship job one Friday last month.
  • UB Computer Scientist Cai Wins Humboldt Research Award
    5/19/99
    Jin-Yi Cai, Ph.D., a professor of computer science and engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
  • Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Wins Coleman Grant
    5/18/99
    The Coleman Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the School of Management for development of a program that partners the center with the school's undergraduate internship program.
  • Goldstein Student Vocalist At UB Commencement Ceremony
    5/17/99
    Dana Goldstein, a 1999 summa cum laude graduate of UB, was student vocalist on May 16 at the university's 153rd commencement ceremony.
  • Four Recognized as Outstanding Graduates of UB College of Arts and Sciences
    5/17/99
    The UB College of Arts and Sciences recognized four seniors as outstanding graduates of 1999 with Dean's Outstanding Senior Awards at the university's commencement ceremony on May 16.
  • UB Professor Susan Howe, Poet and Critic, Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    5/17/99
    A noted literary critic as well as a celebrated poet, University at Buffalo English professor Susan Howe is one of nine literary figures from here and abroad recently elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Walker Speaks, Receives Major Award At UB Commencement
    5/17/99
    Joshua W. Walker, a 1999 graduate of the UB, was student speaker and recipient of a major award on May 16 at the university's 153rd commencement ceremony.
  • UB Engineers Develop Virtual-Factory Software
    5/14/99
    Imagine walking through an assembly plant that hasn't been built yet and moving around pieces of equipment that weigh several tons just by pointing and dragging your mouse. It's now possible with new, virtual-factory software that has been developed by University at Buffalo engineers.