News Releases

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

  • Lower Great Lakes Database Developed
    5/13/99
    A searchable database on the Lower Great Lakes has been developed by the Great Lakes Program at the University at Buffalo and New York Sea Grant.
  • Martin House Topic of UB Senior Alumni Luncheon
    5/13/99
    Patricia Talmon, head of the speakers bureau for the Darwin Martin House docents, will present a talk and slide show on the Martin House, designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, at a senior alumni luncheon on May 18.
  • Frisch to Head National American Studies Association
    5/13/99
    Michael Frisch, professor of history and American studies, has been elected president-elect of the American Studies Association.
  • Low-Tech Devices, Home Adaptations Preserve Independence, Reduce Health-Care Costs For Physically Frail Elderly
    5/13/99
    A case-control study of frail elderly, in which half of the participants received assistive devices and home adaptations as needed and half received "usual care services," has shown that participants in the intervention group sustained a higher level of independence at the end of the 18-month study. The treatment group also spent significantly less on health care -- an average of $14,173 per person, compared to $31,610 per person in the control group.
  • Gibbs Awarded ACLS Fellowship
    5/12/99
    Christopher Gibbs, assistant professor in the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship, with a stipend of $25,000, for the period July 1, 1999 through June 30, 2000.
  • Prasad to Receive Schoellkopf Medal
    5/11/99
    Paras N. Prasad, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the 1999 Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal from the Western New York Section of the American Chemical Society on May 25.
  • Curran to Head UB Division I Softball Program
    5/10/99
    UB has named Marie Curran, an assistant coach at the Mid-American Conference's Northern Illinois University, head coach of its first Division I softball program.
  • Levy Named Interim Dean of Graduate School of Education
    5/8/99
    Senior Vice Provost Kenneth J. Levy has been named interim dean of the Graduate School of Education by Provost David Triggle.
  • Breast Milk of Women Who Eat Lake Ontario Fish Contains High Levels of PCBs, UB Study Finds
    5/8/99
    Women who eat fish from Lake Ontario have significantly higher levels of PCBs and pesticides in their breast milk than women who do not eat Lake Ontario fish, results of a study of lactating women in the New York State Angler Cohort has shown.
  • Sheffer Named Region's Public Administrator of The Year
    5/8/99
    The Niagara Frontier Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) has named John B. Sheffer, II, director of the University at Buffalo Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth, as its 1999 Public Administrator of the Year.