News Releases

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

  • Student Association Announces Speaker Series
    10/17/96
    Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, former Cherokee Nation chief Wilma Mankiller, performer Gregory Henderson and Chinese dissident Chai Ling will be featured in this fall's People's Speaker Series sponsored by the undergraduate Student Association (SA) at the University at Buffalo.
  • Green to Receive UB Law School's Highest Honor
    10/16/96
    The Hon. Samuel L. Green will receive the 1996 Edwin F. Jaeckle Award -- the University at Buffalo School of Law's highest honor -- at a luncheon to be held at 12:15 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2, in the Atrium of the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Law School Creates Center For Study of Criminal Law
    10/16/96
    The University at Buffalo School of Law has established the Buffalo Criminal Law Center to advance the study of criminal law, an area of study generally neglected in U.S. law schools.
  • UB Libraries to Celebrate 150 Years By Accepting 3 Millionth Volume -- And One More!
    10/15/96
    The University Libraries of the University at Buffalo will commemorate the acquisition of their 3 millionth and 3 million-and-first volumes -- a 400-year-old obstetrical text and a new CD ROM featuring UBâs Poetry Collection -- with a day-long program on Sunday, Oct. 20.
  • UB Libraries Planning Special Exhibitions
    10/15/96
    Eight of the nine libraries in the University Libraries system will present special exhibitions in connection with UB’s sesquicentennial and acquisition of the libraries’ 3 millionth and 3 million-and-first volumes.
  • Computer Chess Match to Be Focus of Sciences Alumni Lecture
    10/11/96
    Computer chess and the match between Russian world chess champion Gary Kasparov and a computer will be the focus of a lecture to be given at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, in Room 210 of the Natural Sciences Complex on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • University At Buffalo Biophysicists Develop New Software That Makes Fast Ion-Channel Analysis Possible
    10/8/96
    The interpretation of the activity of ion channels -- the protein structures that regulate the flow of electrical current in cells -- can be so difficult and time-consuming that many researchers have simply given up on it.
  • Relationship Between Alcohol And Breast Cancer is Focus of New $1.6 Million UB Study
    10/4/96
    Can drinking alcoholic beverages increase the risk of developing breast cancer? If the answer is "yes," as many scientists suspect, what are the mechanisms involved, and are some women genetically more susceptible to the risk than others?
  • Research Center Helps Bring Assistive Devices For Persons With Disabilities to The Marketplace
    10/4/96
    Several useful products that probably never would have seen the light of day if left to normal market forces will appear on the market this fall, due to an innovative and fruitful collaboration between inventors, persons with disabilities, a private economic-development firm, and the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Launches World-Wide Distance Learning On Internet
    10/1/96
    "Put a Buffalo in Your Computer!"