News Releases

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

  • University At Buffalo And The Document Company, Xerox Sign UB's First University-Wide Partnership Agreement
    4/16/97
    The University at Buffalo and The Document Company, Xerox have signed a five-year partnership agreement outlining ways in which they will provide benefits to each other.
  • UB to Launch Mini-Medical School; Lectures to Be Geared to A General Audience
    4/15/97
    On Tuesday, May 6, the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will launch its Mini-Med School, a series of lectures dealing with subjects covered in traditional medical school but geared to a general audience.
  • UB to Sponsor International Conference On Research Microscopy
    4/15/97
    Scientists from 19 countries whose specialty lies in probing the microscopic world will attend "Focus on Multi-Dimensional Microscopy 1997," to be held April 27-30 by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
  • UB Study Supports Congressional Efforts to Reduce/Repeal Estate Taxes Shows Higher Estate Taxes Reduce Government Tax Revenues
    4/15/97
    Higher estate taxes reduce the amount of tax revenue collected by the government and provide a disincentive for people to acquire more wealth, a study by economists in the University at Buffalo School of Management has found.
  • Steeplechase Run to Benefit Newman Centers At UB
    4/14/97
    The second annual Steeplechase 5K Run and Walk to benefit the activities of UB's Newman Centers will be held on Saturday, May 10, beginning at 10 a.m. in the Park Lot on the South Campus.
  • UB Scientists Find Strongest Evidence Yet That Magnetic Field May Enhance, Not Kill, Superconductivity
    4/14/97
    University at Buffalo physicists have found the strongest evidence yet for the existence of reentrant superconductivity, which, if it exists, would radically change thinking about superconductivity and magnetism.
  • Jeremy M. Jacobs, Sr. And Gerald S. Lippes Appointed to University At Buffalo Council By Gov. Pataki
    4/11/97
    Jeremy M. Jacobs Sr. and Gerald S. Lippes, two Western New York community leaders who are among the University at Buffalo's most active volunteers, have been appointed to the UB Council by Gov. George E. Pataki.
  • New Book By UB Sociologist Links America's Obsession With Themed Spaces to Decline of Cities And Rise of Media Culture
    4/11/97
    America's preoccupation with themed environments is due in large part because these spaces provide the type of pedestrian urban experience formerly found in cities, according a new book by a University at Buffalo sociologist.
  • Debuono to Headline UB Spring Clinical Day Program
    4/10/97
    "Rationing of Health Care" will be the theme of the 60th Annual Spring Clinical Day, to be held on Saturday, April 26, by the UB Medical Alumni Association.
  • Two UB Professors Named SUNY Distinguished Professors
    4/10/97
    University at Buffalo Professors Paras N. Prasad, Ph.D., and Sargur N. Srihari, Ph.D., have been named Distinguished Professors, the highest rank in the State University of New York system, by the SUNY Board of Trustees.