News Releases

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

  • Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Pervasive In U.S. Society; Children, As Well As Older Adults, Among Millions Affected Expert Says President Clinton May Not Be Helped By Hearing AIDS
    10/23/97
    A researcher with the University at Buffalo Center for Hearing and Deafness says noise-induced high-frequency hearing loss is endemic in the U.S., and poses a particular problem for children, affecting their ability to achieve in school.
  • UB Husband-And-Wife Team Embarks On Search For Genes Linked to Schizophrenia Study to Focus On Residents of Azores Descended From A Few Families
    10/23/97
    A husband-and-wife team of psychiatrists at the University at Buffalo has received a $2.6 million federal grant to conduct one of the first major population-based studies aimed at finding the gene or genes that may be linked to schizophrenia.
  • Major Investment In Money And Time Brings 26 New Technology Classrooms On-Line
    10/22/97
    Twenty-six new "technology classrooms" are up and running this semester at the University at Buffalo, more than tripling the number of high-technology classrooms.
  • Students' Engineering Analysis Shows San Francisco's New Air Terminal Will Withstand Quakes
    10/22/97
    University at Buffalo engineering students have determined that San Francisco's new airport terminal building should remain operational during earthquakes registering as high as eight on the Richter scale.
  • Censorship Issues to Be Explored In UB Libraries Exhibit
    10/21/97
    Beginning Nov. 1 and running through Dec. 20, "Burning Issues," an exhibit focusing on censorship, will be on display in Lockwood Memorial Library and the Charles B. Sears Law Library, both on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Book By UB Faculty, Staff And Students Examines Effects of Work-Based Learning
    10/21/97
    "Winning Ways: Best Practices in Work-Based Learning", co-edited by Albert J. Pautler, Jr., Deborah M. Buffamanti, focuses on how internships, apprenticeships and other forms of work-based learning can provide an edge in the job market.
  • Controversial Russian Historian to Speak At UB
    10/21/97
    Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History Emeritus at Harvard University and a member of the National Security Council in the Reagan administration, will present a lecture at UB Friday, Nov. 21.
  • UB to Host International Film Festival By And About Women
    10/20/97
    UB will be the screening site for the second annual international film festival, "About Women," the only international women-oriented film festival in New York State.
  • 3 UB Pharmacy Students Receive Women's Club Scholarships
    10/20/97
    Three pharmacy students at the University at Buffalo have been awarded $1,000 scholarships by the Women's Club of the Columbia University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  • UB Professor Receives Award For Teaching Excellence
    10/20/97
    Kenneth J. Takeuchi, Ph.D., associate professor of, has received the inaugural Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics from Dean Joseph J. Tufariello.