News Releases

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

  • New, Improved Mortar Could Slash Repair Costs And Improve The Durability of Brick Buildings
    9/22/97
    An advanced composite material developed at the University at Buffalo that strengthens mortar could bring longer life -- and lower repair costs -- to aging brick buildings and chimneys.
  • Alumnus Expresses Gratitude to UB Professor With $25,000 Gift to School of Management
    9/22/97
    A UB alumnus of the School of Management has donated $25,000 to the school in appreciation for the education and guidance that he and his son, also a former student, received from one of its professors.
  • Cultural Warrior Larry Levine to Speak At UB Macarthur Fellow is Author of “The Opening of The American Mind”
    9/22/97
    Larry Levine, major historian, public intellectual and cultural provocateur, will present the 1997 Capen Lecture in the Humanities at the University at Buffalo on Tuesday, Sept. 30.
  • Robert Hirsch to Discuss New Uses of Color Materials In Photographic Art
    9/22/97
    Noted photographer and photographic historian Robert Hirsch, director and curator of CEPA, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, will present a slide talk, “Recent Color Photography,” at UB on Thursday, Oct. 23.
  • NSF Awards $900,000 to UB Center to Study Chemical Sensitivities, Airborne Contagions
    9/19/97
    The Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces, headquartered at the University at Buffalo, has received a $900,000 National Science Foundation grant to expand its research on airborne contagions and health.
  • Your Physician Doesn’T Listen to You ? UB Medical School Project Aims to Correct That Problem
    9/19/97
    The University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Science has received a grant to to teach medical students to be more sensitive, more care physicians.
  • Pan American Expo Watch -- "Buffalo 2001" is On The Wing
    9/18/97
    A UB professor is taking the lead in linking the university, its programs and its resources to "Buffalo 2001," the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pan American Exposition.
  • J. Bradley Aust Named UB Distinguished Medical Alumnus
    9/18/97
    J. Bradley Aust, M.D., Ph.D., Dorn Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, will be honored as Distinguished Medical Alumnus by the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • The Way It Was
    9/18/97
    In the spring of 1901, a fantastic Pan American Rainbow City sprung up almost overnight to pierce the quiet treeline of Delaware Avenue and Lincoln Parkway with its frosted minarets, towers, balconies, domes and spires. For eight months, this fairyland realm, a 30-minute ride from downtown Buffalo, excited international applause and could be glimpsed from as far away as Niagara Falls.
  • UB to Hold Minority Student Graduate School Conference
    9/16/97
    Julian Earls, deputy director for operations at NASA's Lewis Research Center and a nationally recognized author, scholar and humanitarian, will speak at the first annual Minority Student Graduate School Awareness Conference.