News Releases

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

  • Carol Burnett to Speak At UB On Oct. 9
    9/15/97
    Actress, comedienne and six-time Emmy-award winner Carol Burnett will kick off the 11th annual Distinguished Speakers Series at the University at Buffalo on Thursday, Oct. 9.
  • Halley Installation Satirizes Attempt to Limit Student Behavior Through Campus Design Artist Critiques The Controlling Tactics of Modernism
    9/15/97
    Peter Halley, a New York artist of growing national reputation, has installed a nine-part temporary public-art project on the North Campus that satirizes the physical organization of the university.
  • Anthology Explores Role of Women In Spanish-American Theater
    9/12/97
    The first anthology in English dedicated exclusively to Spanish-American women playwrights has been produced by two Buffalo professors.
  • Software That is Helping Researchers Fight Deadly Bacterial Strains Will Be Topic of UB Lecture
    9/12/97
    A new software package developed by Western New York researchers that is allowing pharmacologists to begin to design new drugs to fight a deadly bacteria will be the topic of a lecture to be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22.
  • UB English Faculty Members Author New Publications
    9/12/97
    Recent publications by members of the University at Buffalo Department of English have included books and special publications.
  • Members of UB Public Safety Honored By, Graduate From SUNY Training Academy
    9/12/97
    One member of the University at Buffalo Department of Public Safety was honored and another graduated during the 16th graduation session of the State University of New York Public Safety Training Academy.
  • Antioxidant-Enhancing Drug Partly Rescues Noise-Induced Hearing Loss, UB Researchers Show
    9/12/97
    UB researchers have shown in studies with chinchillas that a drug called R-PIA can help rescue hearing loss due to exposure to high levels of noise.
  • Finley Named to Board of National Abortion Federation
    9/11/97
    Lucinda Finley, professor of law at UB, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the National Abortion Federation.
  • to Those Trying to Save Buffalo, Futurist Joel Garreau Says, “Why Bother?”
    9/11/97
    Joel Garreau, Washington Post writer and author of the bestseller, “Edge City: Life on the New Frontier,” will open the 1997-98 lecture series sponsored by the UB School of Architecture and Planning on Monday, Sept. 15.
  • Toomey Named Director of Admissions At UB
    9/10/97
    Regina S. Toomey has been named director of admissions at UB and will continue as interim assistant vice president.