News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Stuttering Workshop to Be Held At UB
    5/7/99
    The Buffalo Chapter of the National Stuttering Project and the Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic at the University at Buffalo will sponsor a workshop May 15 for teens who stutter, their parents, adults who stutter and for speech-language pathologists.
  • International Meeting to Focus On Structural Optimization
    5/5/99
    The third World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, an international conference focusing on research into all aspects of the optimal design of structures and systems, will be held May 17-21 at the University at Buffalo. It will be the first time the conference will be held in the U.S.
  • 16th Science Exploration Day Set At UB
    5/5/99
    More than 1,000 high-school students from Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties will visit the UB North Campus on May 18 during the 16th annual Science Exploration Day.
  • Castellani/Andriaccio Duo to Perform At "UB At Sunrise"
    5/5/99
    The tango -- that romantic, Latin American dance form -- will be the focus of a "UB at Sunrise" program by the Castellani/Andriaccio Duo to be held from 7:30-9 a.m. May 27 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
  • Jack Meacham, Jerry Newman Named SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors
    5/5/99
    Two University at Buffalo faculty members -- Jack Meacham and Jerry N. Newman -- have joined the ranks of distinguished teaching professors appointed by the State University of New York Board of Trustees.