News Releases

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

  • Stewart Named Director of Office of Equity, Diversity And Affirmative Action Administration
    2/15/99
    Loyce E. Stewart has been appointed director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Affirmative Action Administration by President William R. Greiner.
  • UB's Easley is "Enemy No. 1" of Anti-Fluoride Groups And The American Dental Association's Best Weapon
    2/15/99
    While water fluoridation is controversial in some circles, it’s not a conspiracy or worse, says Michael Easley, associate professor of dental medicine at the University at Buffalo. An specialist on water fluoridation, he is the American D ental Association’s designated spokesman on the issue.
  • $5.7 Million Grant To UB’s Center For Hearing And Deafness To Fund Four Major Projects On Acquired Hearing Loss
    2/11/99
    The University at Buffalo's Center for Hearing and Deafness, one of the world's leading hearing research laboratories, has received a $5.7 million program project grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand studies geared to understanding and treating acquired hearing loss, a condition affecting 28 million people in the United States alone.
  • Martin Luther King Iii to Speak At UB On Feb. 25
    2/10/99
    Martin Luther King III, son of the late civil-rights champion, will deliver the keynote address at UB’s 23rd annual Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration, to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 25 in the Mainstage theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • Gardens And Landscapes of Wright's Prairie Houses to Be Subject of Slide Lecture/Discussion
    2/10/99
    The University Archives will present "Of Nature and Shelter," a slide lecture and discussion of the gardens and landscapes of Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses, at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 26 in the University Archives, 420 Capen Hall on the North Campus.
  • Head of FBI's Buffalo Office to Address Alumni Luncheon
    2/10/99
    Bernard A. Tolbert, special agent in charge of the FBI's Buffalo office, will speak at a UB senior alumni luncheon to be held at noon March 9 in the Center for Tomorrow.
  • Photographer Janice Levy to Present Slide Lecture On An Exotic "Troubled Paradise" -- Madagascar
    2/10/99
    Janice Levy will present a slide lecture of her stunning photographic series, "The Face of Madagascar," on Feb. 23.
  • UB Dental Alumni Association Names Officers
    2/10/99
    Paul R. DiBenedetto D.D.S., of Amherst, a 1979 graduate of the School of Dental Medicine, has been named president of the 4,000-member UB Dental Medicine Alumni Association for a second year.
  • Recognizing Children's Need For Exposure to Music-Dance, UB Professor Brings "Musicking" to Inner-City Classrooms
    2/9/99
    Mambo, guanguanco, bolero, cha cha, merengue, samba, bomba, plena, polka-you name it. All that University at Buffalo ethnomusicologist Charles Keil asks is that you "give dance a chance."
  • Coppens Named First Woodburn Chair of Chemistry
    2/8/99
    Philip Coppens, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been named the first Henry M. Woodburn Chair of Chemistry.