News Releases

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

  • UB to Host Conference On South Asian Human Rights
    4/7/98
    A conference on South Asian Human Rights Awareness will be April 16 and 17 in the Student Union Theater.
  • Anonymous Donor Changing More Lives; Donations to UB Distinguished Scholars Program Reach $4 Million
    4/2/98
    Taking a monumental step that will change the lives of even more University at Buffalo students, the anonymous donor who started UB's Distinguished Honors Scholars program has reached the $4 million mark with another donation of $800,000 to fully fund the education of academically gifted students.
  • University At Buffalo Students Plan to Get Up Close And Personal With Campus Trash
    4/2/98
    A group of UB students plan to get really close to campus trash and they're hoping that classmates, faculty and administrators will join them.
  • Thirty-One Execs Enroll In UB MBA Program In Singapore Program Attracts Growing Numbers of Managers From U.S. Subsidiaries
    4/1/98
    Sixteen top-level managers from U.S. firms based in Singapore are among the new enrollees in the University at Buffalo School of Management's Executive MBA program in Singapore, one of just two U.S. MBA programs on the island.
  • Bernstein Named to Poetry Committee of Mla
    4/1/98
    Charles Bernstein, David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters at UB, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Poetry Division of the Modern Language Association of America.
  • UB Scientist Edits Comprehensive Book On Protocols For Measuring Oxidative Stress, Antioxidant Activity
    3/31/98
    Donald Armstrong, Ph.D., D.Sc., a UB specialist in free-radical bioactivity, is editor of a new book of analytical protocols for measuring oxidative stress and antioxidant activity.
  • Author of 'kids Who Kill' Says Jonesboro Shootings Demonstrate Need to Restrict Use of Guns By Youth
    3/31/98
    University at Buffalo law professor and forensic psychologist Charles Patrick Ewing says the shootings of four students and a teacher in Jonesboro, Ark., underscores the need for laws such as one that would make possession/use of any firearm by youths under 16 a punishable offense.
  • UB Lecture to Examine Link Between Women, Shopping, Space
    3/31/98
    Mona Domosh of Florida Atlantic University will discuss "A Feminine City: Women, Shopping and Space in 19th Century New York” in a lecture on April 8.
  • With Less Time On Their Hands, Women Shop Close to Home While Men Tend to Travel Farther, UB Study Shows Data Have Implications For Planning And Suburban Sprawl
    3/28/98
    Women won't travel as far as men will to do their shopping because they have less time available for the task, a study by a University at Buffalo geographer has found.
  • Technology Fails to Keep Pace At Fast-Food Restaurants
    3/24/98
    A computer system used by a national fast-food restaurant chain to decide what items to cook and when is effective because its designers did not fully appreciate what workers deal with on a daily basis, a conflict between workers and systems that exists in many industries.