News Releases

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

  • UB’S Institute For Tax Studies to Present Tax Legislative Update
    10/10/97
    A "tax legislative update" will be presented by the Center for Management Development and the Institute for Tax Studies in the UB School of Management on Oct. 31.
  • NCEER Accomplishments
    10/7/97
    The National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, headquartered at the University at Buffalo, has directed nearly $110 million toward research and education programs in its 11-year history. Much of the knowledge and technology developed through NCEER’s programs has been put into practice. Its accomplishments include:
  • National Center For Earthquake Engineering Research Gets $10 Million National Science Foundation Grant Berkeley, Illinois Join University At Buffalo As Earthquake-Center Sites
    10/7/97
    The University at Buffalo's National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research has been awarded a $10 million grant by the National Science Foundation to support a Center for Advanced Technologies in Earthquake Loss Reduction.
  • Joint Statement
    10/7/97
    Joint Statement by Chancellor Robert Berdahl of the University of California at Berkeley, President William R. Greiner of the University at Buffalo, and Chancellor Michael Aiken of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • World-Renowned Bridge Designer T.Y. Lin to Speak In Buffalo
    10/6/97
    T.Y. Lin, often called “the greatest structural engineer in the world,” will speak at UB on Tbursday, Oct. 16, and Friday, Oct. 17.
  • 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.