News Releases

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

  • Noted Poets Jackson Maclow And David Ignatow to Be Among UB's Special Literary Guests This Fall Series Also Will Present Joan Jonas, F'loom, Janine Pommy Vega
    8/18/97
    "Wednesdays at 4 Plus," the bi-annual literary series sponsored by the Poetics Program in the UB Department of English, this fall will celebrate the 75th birthday of renowned poet Jackson MacLow.
  • UB Physicist Mendel Sachs to Be Honored At Symposium
    8/18/97
    Two Nobel laureates and a best-selling author will be among those honoring internationally known UB physicist Mendel Sachs, Ph.D., at a symposium to be held on Sunday, Sept. 7.
  • From Flowing Spencerian Script to Computer Emoticons:UB Historian Pens History of Handwriting In America
    8/18/97
    In "Handwriting in America," a University at Buffalo historian explores the many ways in which Americans historically have used handwriting as both a lesson in conformity and a talisman of individuality.
  • UB Signs Joint-Admission Agreements With Genesee, Broome Community Colleges
    8/15/97
    UB recently signed joint-admission agreements with two Genesee Community and Broome Community colleges to facilitate the transfer of students from those colleges.
  • University At Buffalo First Site In Nation to Cap Recruitment For Women's Health Initiative, Nation's Largest Clinical Trial
    8/15/97
    The University at Buffalo is the first of 40 sites in the U.S. to meet all of its recruitment goals for the $625 million Women's Health Initiative, the largest clinical trial ever undertaken in the U.S.
  • UB Work-Study Students to Tutor WNY Children In Reading
    8/15/97
    Federal work-study students at the University at Buffalo will go into Western New York elementary schools this fall to tutor students in reading as part of the "America Reads" program.
  • Levine Receives Sarason Award For Career Achievement
    8/15/97
    Murray Levine, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology, has received the Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action from the American Psychology Association.
  • UB Study Indicates Blood-Vessel Behavior May Be One Reasonblacks Are More Prone to High Blood Pressure Than Whites
    8/15/97
    The way in which the lining of their blood vessels responds to certain signals telling it to dilate may account for why some blacks have high blood pressure, according to a University at Buffalo study.
  • Saleh Elected Vice President of UB Alumni Association
    8/11/97
    David J. Saleh has been elected to a one-year term as vice president for finance of the UB Alumni Association. The other officers, including president Jonathan A. Dandes, are continuing in the second year of their terms.
  • UB Responds to PCBs Found On North Campus
    8/8/97
    The university is pursuing clean-up efforts following discovery of PCB-laden fuel oil in an underground electrical conduit on the North Campus.