News Releases

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

  • Survey of Women With Disabilities Finds Many Health-Care Needs Unmet In Traditional Settings
    5/12/98
    One of the first assessments of the health status of women with disabilities, conducted by University at Buffalo faculty members, has spurred formation of a one-of-a-kind multidisciplinary health-care center for women with disabilities, where physicians provide neurologic, gynecologic and preventive care under one roof.
  • High-School Students to Attend Science Exploration Day
    5/11/98
    An estimated 1,100 high-school students from Erie and Niagara counties are expected to "turn on to science" at Science Exploration Day, to be held May 19 at UB.
  • Earliest Warning Sign Indicates Need to Test For Condition Associated With Fetal Deaths
    5/11/98
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo are recommending that the presence of only one of the known clinical signs is sufficient reason to conduct a diagnostic test for chorioamnionitis, an inflammation of the fetal membranes that is a risk factor for fetal death.
  • Fall '98 Humanities Course Looks Like A Toe-Curler
    5/8/98
    Humanities One is a course developed last year at the University at Buffalo by SUNY Distinguished Professor Bruce Jackson, Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture, is scheduled again for the fall semester.
  • UB's New Policy For Buying Electricity Emphasizes Conservation And "Clean" Power Sources
    5/8/98
    While "cost" still heads the shopping list, "environmentally clean" has been added as a factor to be considered when the University at Buffalo shops for electricity now that New York State's electric industry is being deregulated.
  • 2 UB Faculty Members Named 1998 Guggenheim Fellows
    5/7/98
    University at Buffalo faculty members Jin-Yi Cai, Ph.D., professor of computer science, and Nina Y. Fonoroff, visiting assistant professor of media study, have been selected to receive 1998 fellowship awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  • SPIR Awards Grants to Six Western New York Firms
    5/7/98
    The local branch of the Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR), based in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has awarded grants to six Western New York companies.
  • UB Adds Irish And American Sign Language to Curriculum
    5/7/98
    The World Languages Institute at UB has announced that it will offer a two-semester sequence of the Irish language and a two-semester sequence of American Sign Language, beginning in the Fall 1998 semester.
  • UB Sociologist, Nigerian Native Edits Report Urging Country’s Return to Founding Federalist Principles
    5/6/98
    A new report edited by a University at Buffalo sociologist and issued by an international group of Nigerian scholars offers what its authors say is a feasible response to the constitutional crisis in Nigeria.
  • $250,000 Gift From Eleanor Millonzi to Help UB Attract Top Students In Art And Music
    5/6/98
    Eleanor V. Millonzi, a longtime organizer and supporter of the arts in Buffalo, has created an exciting opportunity for the University at Buffalo to recruit and educate the best artists/scholars-in-training.