News Releases

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

  • Tomasi to Receive SUNY Honorary Degree At UB Convocation
    10/6/97
    A SUNY honorary degree will be presented to Thomas B. Tomasi, former president and chief executive officer of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, when UB holds its third annual University Convocation on Wednesday, Oct. 15.
  • UB Architect And Students Win Coveted Design Prize Plan For San Francisco’S Union Station Beats Out 300 Competitors
    10/3/97
    A design team from the UB School of Architecture and Planning has beat out more than 300 competitors to win the coveted Grand Prize in the Second San Francisco Prize Competition.
  • UB Dean Emeritus Perry Receives Theodore Roosevelt Award
    10/3/97
    J. Warren Perry, Ph.D., founding dean of the UB School of Health Related Professions at the University at Buffalo, recently received the 1997 Theodore Roosevelt Award for Exemplary Citizenship and Service.
  • UB Institute For Local Governance And Regional Growth Moves to Historic Beck Hall, Plans Oct. 16 Open House
    10/3/97
    UB’s Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth will kick off a full fall season of events with an open house on Oct. 16 in its new home: historic Beck Hall on the South Campus.
  • Link Between Gum Disease And Heart Disease to Be Focus of Major Five-Year NIH-Funded Study
    10/2/97
    Funded by the National Institutes of Health, UB dental researchers and preventive medicine specialists are beginning a five-year study of the relationship between periodontal disease and heart attacks.
  • UB Study Aims to Keep Seniors On Their Toes, Prevent Falls
    10/2/97
    A study to determine if exercises can improve balance and agility in older adults and involving subjects as old as 91 is being conducted by a UB assistant professor of physical therapy and exercise and nutrition sciences.
  • Environmental Audit of City Hall By UB Students Suggests Ways to Save Money, Improve Conditions
    10/1/97
    Too much hot air -- literally -- and two few recycling bins were among the concerns about Buffalo’s City Hall that a group of UB environmental-studies students raised this week when they met with Mayor Anthony Masiello.
  • UB Sets Oct. 18 Open House For Prospective Undergraduate Students
    10/1/97
    UB will hold its first “Discover UB!” fall undergraduate open house, featuring workshops, tours and special presentations, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18.
  • “UB At Sunrise” Speaker to Discuss Solutions to Violence
    10/1/97
    A UB associate professor of surgery who has set up a hospital-based program aimed at keeping trauma patients who are violence victims from repeating their mistakes will speak in a “UB at Sunrise” program on Thursday, Oct. 9.
  • Increase In Drug Resistance For Common Bacterium Termed “Rocket Ship” Based On National Study Bacterium Causes Otitis Media, Pneumonia; Problem Greatest In Southeast
    9/30/97
    By the year 2000, half of the infections caused by the bacterium responsible for 7 million cases of otitis media and 500,000 cases of pneumonia a year in the U.S. will have some resistance to penicillin, a UB researcher warned today.