News Releases

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

  • UB Computer Science Professor And Former Chair Dies At 75
    8/13/98
    A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Aug. 15, for Patricia James Eberlein, professor emerita and former chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo, who died in her Buffalo home on Tuesday, Aug. 11, from lung cancer. She was 75.
  • Make School Shopping A Lesson In Managing Money
    8/10/98
    Back-to-school shopping provides parents with an opportunity to teach their children to be educated shoppers, says Arun Jain, Samuel P. Capen Professor of Marketing Research and chair of the Department of Marketing in the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Math Homework: Parents May Think They're Helping, But. . .
    8/10/98
    Douglas Clements, professor of learning and instruction in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, warns that parents should not be "suckered" into doing their child's mathematics homework.
  • Return to School Brings Increase In Cold Viruses
    8/10/98
    With the return of children to the close confines of the classroom in the fall comes an increase in the incidence of upper-respiratory-tract infections (URIs) -- the common cold.
  • Children Will Eat Lunches They Make Themselves
    8/10/98
    Children who make their own lunch are more likely to eat it than if their parents make it, according to Janice Cochran, certified dietitian and nutritionist with the University at Buffalo Student Health Center and UB Living Well Center.
  • Open Lines of Communication With Teachers
    8/10/98
    It is important for parents to have an open line of communication with their child's teachers before problems arise, according to J. Ronald Gentile, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education.
  • Foreign-Language Study: The Younger The Better
    8/10/98
    "While it is never too late to undertake foreign-language study, the best time to begin is during childhood, especially before adolescence," says Mark Ashwill, director of the World Languages Institute at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Literary Series to Open With Poetry/Jazz Performance
    8/10/98
    "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS," the bi-annual literary series sponsored by the Poetics Program in the UB Department of English, will feature a number of renowned authors, poets and playwrights in its Fall 1998 program.
  • High-School Students Participate In UB Research Institute
    8/10/98
    A future Albert Einstein or a budding Bill Gates could be among the eight local high-school students participating in this summer's Science Research Institute (SRI) at UB.
  • Back-to-School Tips
    8/10/98
    The following tips include expert advice from faculty and staff members at the University at Buffalo designed to help parents prepare for the back-to-school season and upcoming school year.