News Releases

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

  • Book By Education Researchers Focuses On Transformation of School District
    1/10/97
    A new book by education researchers at the University at Buffalo offers a detailed account of how one community turned its middle-of-the-road school district into one of the most exemplary in the United States.
  • Wyant Trust Supporting UB Nursing School
    1/7/97
    The University at Buffalo School of Nursing has received a $70,000 gift from a trust created by the late Christian Wyant, who died in 1991 and was the husband of the late Gertrude Vaughn Wyant, a 1936 alumnus of the school.
  • Advantage Program Helps MBA Students Develop Competitive Edge
    1/6/97
    When it comes to job placement and career advancement, MBA students in the University at Buffalo School of Management don't rely solely on their credentials. A new program gives them the corporate polish needed for career success.
  • UB to Offer Course On Coping With Depression
    1/3/97
    A course to help individuals learn how to recognize and cope with depression will be offered next month at the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • ³Art From Hell² Exhibit to Open Jan.23
    1/3/97
    Students in the University at Buffalo Art Illustration Program claim that a recent "field trip" designed to expand their cultural and intellectual horizons turned sulfuric and scared the wits out of them. Instead of being taken to a m useum or gallery, the students claim to have been plummeted straight into the bowels of hell.
  • UB to Commemorate 197th Birthday of Millard Fillmore
    12/26/96
    The 197th anniversary of the birth of Millard Fillmore, the University at Buffalo's first chancellor and 13th president of the United States, will be observed in ceremonies to be held at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 7, in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
  • Computer Simulations Help Officials Make Decisions About Planet's ÒRiskiest Volcano"
    12/18/96
    For the first time, the official risk map for the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, which has shown alarming activity during the past two years, has been designed with input from computer models, rather than based solely on fieldwork.
  • Wright Honored For Minority Medical Education Efforts
    12/12/96
    Maggie S. Wright, Ph.D., assistant dean for minority affairs in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has received the Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education Award for 1996 from the National Association of Minority Medical Educators, Inc.
  • Stroke Research Center to Focus On Surgery Accessing The Brain Through Blood Vessels
    12/12/96
    A stroke research center unmatched in technology and sophistication is being established at the University at Buffalo with a $3.6 million gift of advanced image-guidance equipment from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.
  • Gift From Alumnus to Benefit Lockwood Library
    12/12/96
    The acquisition of a group of scholarly electronic resources in humanities for the University at Buffalo Lockwood Library to support new trends in database research has been made possible through a $50,000 gift from a 1936 alumnus of the university.