News Releases

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

  • UB to Honor Spiller As Distinguished Alumni Visitor
    8/29/97
    Henry Spiller, D.D.S., an early advocate in Western New York for adding fluoride to public water supplies, will be honored by the UB Alumni Association at a breakfast to be held on Friday, Sept. 12.
  • Software Reveals Structure of “Last Resort” Antibiotic; Data Needed to Create New Forms of Vancomycin
    8/29/97
    Humans are one up in the war against drug-resistant bacteria, thanks to a software package used to solve molecular structures developed at the University at Buffalo and Buffalo’s Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute.
  • UB Names Shulman Dean of School of Social Work
    8/29/97
    Lawrence Shulman, Ed.D., has been named dean of the School of Social Work effective Jan. 1, 1998 by UB President William R. Greiner.
  • UB School of Management Grads Score Highly On National Cpa Tests
    8/29/97
    Graduates of the UB undergraduate accounting program had the fourth highest passing rate in the U.S. on all subjects of the May 1996 certified public accountant exam.
  • “Brain Stories” to Be Focus of Dialogue At First “UB At Sunrise” Program
    8/29/97
    The dean of the School of Dental Medicine and a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of English are teaming up to present the first program in the 1997-98 “UB at Sunrise” series.
  • Bronze Buffalo Moving to New Home On North Campus
    8/26/97
    UB's life-sized bronze buffalo is moving this week to a permanent home outdoors on a new plaza on Coventry Circle, adjacent to Alumni Arena and the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • UB Exhibit to Explore Intimate Relationship Between Frank Lloyd Wright And Darwin Martin Construction Costs, Romance, Fellowship of Wright Homeowners On The Agenda
    8/21/97
    The UB Archives next month will open an exhibit -- “My Dear Mr. Wright” -- featuring letters, manuscripts, photographs, architectural drawings and other materials from its Darwin D. Martin Collection and other sources.
  • Adams to Edit Series For Library Association
    8/21/97
    Judith Adams, director of Lockwood Library, has been appointed editor of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Occasional Paper Series for 1997-99.
  • Greater Niagara Frontier Dental Meeting Set For Sept. 11-12
    8/20/97
    Seminars on oral surgery and healthy living will be featured at the Greater Niagara Frontier Dental Meeting, to be on Sept. 11 and 12 in the Buffalo Convention Center.
  • UB Study Finds No Link Between Breast-Cancer Risk And Pesticides Or PCB Exposure For General Population Increased Risk Shown For Women Who Have Never Breast-Fed
    8/20/97
    A new University at Buffalo study of the relationship of pesticides and PCBs with breast cancer shows that these compounds are not a risk factor for breast cancer for the general population of women.