News Releases

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

  • Urban Planner Yaro Named Clarkson Visiting Chair At UB
    2/6/98
    The School of Architecture and Planning will host design critic and acclaimed urban and regional planner Robert D. Yaro as its 1998 William and Elisabeth Clarkson Visiting Chair.
  • UB School of Information And Library Studies to Match National Minority Scholarships
    2/6/98
    The School of Information and Library has announced that it will match up to four $5,000 minority scholarships offered by the American Library Association for the 1998-99 academic year.
  • Information On WNY Health And Disease Available At New Web Site First Community Health-Resource Information Web Site In U.S.
    2/4/98
    The University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library has developed the Western New York Health Resources Web site to serve as a single source for current and historic information and documents on health and disease in Western New York.
  • $1 Million NSF Grant to Fund Math Curriculum For Young Children
    2/4/98
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo and Wayne State University have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a comprehensive early-childhood math curriculum for use in homes, daycare centers and classrooms.
  • Plans For A New Bridge to Canada Give Engineering Students A Chance to Design, Manage And Perhaps Influence
    2/4/98
    A controversy over plans for a new bridge to link the U.S. and Canada has provided students in a new master's-degree program in engineering at the University at Buffalo with a chance to contribute to the discussion of the international project, while at the same time learning skills needed to manage a large project not typically taught in a classroom.
  • UB Production Represents U.S. In Spanish Theatre Festival
    2/2/98
    A Spring 1997 production of the UB Department of Theatre and Dance and the Center for the Arts was featured recently as the sole representative of the United States at the prestigious Second Biennial International University Theatre Festival held in Spain.
  • Business-Planning Workshops Offered
    2/2/98
    A workshop for entrepreneurs and business managers who wish to develop and improve their business plans is being offered by the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the UB School of Management.
  • Scientists Identify Protein Essential For Iron Absorption, Boost Understanding of Iron-Deficiency Anemia
    2/2/98
    A protein that is the single most critical known element in iron metabolism has been identified and characterized by scientists at the University at Buffalo and Children's Hospital in Boston, which is affiliated with Harvard University.
  • UB Faculty Inventors to Be Honored At Reception On Feb. 9
    1/28/98
    Inventors who are members of the UB faculty and staff will be honored during a reception to be held at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 9, in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Exhibit to Explore Use of Electronic Media In Architecture
    1/27/98
    "Simultaneous Spaces," an installation by Shadi Nazarian, assistant professor in the UB Department of Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, will be on display Feb. 2-13 in the James Dyett Gallery in Hayes Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.