News Releases

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

  • UB Chemistry Professor Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
    5/6/97
    Paras N. Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo and director of the university's Photonics Research Laboratory, has been awarded a 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship Award.
  • State Law Triples Use of Bicycle Helmets By Children, Helps Eliminate "Dorky" Factor, UB Study Shows
    5/6/97
    If you want kids to wear bicycle helmets, pass a helmet law because gentle persuasion doesn't work, according to a study headed by a pediatric emergency medicine specialist at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Communication Students Land 'rajun Cajun,' Carville to Speak At May 16 Recognition Ceremony
    5/5/97
    James Carville, senior political advisor to President Clinton, will address a Department of Communication Recognition Ceremony on May 16 in Slee Hall on the North Campus.
  • Children With Ad/Hd Have Significant Functional Disabilities Related to Attention Deficit, UB Researchers Show
    5/5/97
    Researchers from the University at Buffalo and Children's Hospital of Buffalo have shown children diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have as much functional disability as those with mild mental retardation.
  • Two UB Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
    5/1/97
    Two UB students are among only 282 students nationwide who have been selected as recipients of a Goldwater Scholarship Award.
  • Noted Cancer Researcher, Former UB Professor to Present Harrington Lecture, Receive Honorary Degree
    4/30/97
    Internationally known cancer researcher James F. Holland, M.D. will deliver the Harrington Lecture on Monday, May 12, in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall on the South Campus.
  • UB Parasitologist Appointed Chair of NIH Study Section
    4/29/97
    Philip LoVerde, professor of microbiology at UB, has been appointed chair of the Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Study Section, Division of Research Grants, of the National Institutes of Health.
  • UB Art Students to Receive Annual Departmental Awards
    4/29/97
    Six students in the UB Department of Art will receive 1996-97 departmental awards for their work.
  • UB Physicists First to Demonstrate Critical Prerequisite In Quest For Quark/Gluon Plasma
    4/28/97
    University at Buffalo particle physicists have successfully demonstrated the most important prerequisite for producing the quark/gluon plasma, the ³soup² that existed for an instant following the Big Bang.
  • Kpmg Peat Marwick Gives $10,000 to Management School
    4/25/97
    The public accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick has contributed $10,000 to the UB School of Management for use in its Department of Accounting and Law.