News Releases

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

  • Growth-Hormone Deficient Babies Are Normal Length At Birth, UB Study Finds
    5/1/99
    Babies born with a congenital growth hormone deficiency are of normal length at birth and don't begin to experience growth problems until about six months of age, research by pediatricians at the University at Buffalo have found.
  • Mini-Medical School to Focus On Understanding Health Care
    4/30/99
    Understanding health care and making it work for you will be the focus of a three-part, mini-medical-school course for the public to be held May 11, 18 and 25 by the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Rogerson Named 1999 Guggenheim Fellow
    4/30/99
    Peter A. Rogerson, professor in the Department of Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship Award.
  • Plant-Based Fat Inhibits Growth of Breast-Cancer Cell Line, UB Researchers Show
    4/29/99
    A plant-based fat abundant in vegetarian diets and shown to inhibit the growth of prostate and colon cancer cells in vitro, also inhibits the growth in vitro of one line of breast-cancer cells, University at Buffalo nutrition researchers have found.
  • Blitzer to Speak, Receive Honorary Degree At UB Commencement Ceremony On May 16
    4/25/99
    Wolf Blitzer, CNN's senior White House correspondent; poet and author Lucille Clifton, and Clifton A. Poodry, director of the Division of Minority Opportunities in Research at the National Institutes of Health, will be awarded honorary degrees at the University at Buffalo’s 153rd commencement ceremony on May 16.
  • Shryock Receives Fellowship to Author Second Book
    4/22/99
    Andrew J. Shryock, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology, has received an American Council of Learned Societies/Social Sciences Research Council International Postdoctoral Fellowship.
  • Investing For Retirement Focus of Workshops
    4/22/99
    "Investing for Retirement" will be the topic of workshops for the public to be held by the UB Securities Clinic on May 1, 8 and 22.
  • Rehabilitation Science to Be Topic of UB Conference
    4/21/99
    The emerging field of rehabilitation science will be the subject of a one-day conference April 28 in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 North Forest Road, Getzville.
  • Algorithms Used In Military Radar Systems Have Potential to Improve Medical Ultrasonic Imaging
    4/21/99
    Radar systems employing image-formation algorithms developed by a University at Buffalo associate professor -- and likely being used by NATO planes to spot hidden targets in Yugoslavia -- have the potential to significantly improve medical ultrasonic imaging.
  • New York City Workshop to Focus On Financing Law-School Education
    4/21/99
    Jack D. Cox, associate dean and director of admissions and financial aid at the UB Law School, will lead a workshop on "Law School Debt Management" on April 28 at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York City.