News Releases

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

  • 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!"
  • Sesquicentennial Academic Symposium to Focus On Relationship Between Mind And Body
    9/24/96
    The relationship between consciousness and the body will be the focus of "Does the Body Matter?," a sesquicentennial academic symposium on frontiers of knowledge in nature, society and culture to be held from 8:15 a.m to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, in Slee Concert Hall on the North Campus.
  • Six Decades of Student Leaders to Explore "Leadership" During UB Sesquicentennial Conference
    9/24/96
    The University at Buffalo will bring student leaders from the 1940s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s back to the campus on Oct. 4-5 for a student leadership conference, "The Legacy of Student Leadership."
  • Celebration of The Poet's Work Will Bring Stars of Literature, Art And Music to UB
    9/23/96
    The University at Buffalo next month will host a three-day tribute to one of its own on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The celebration also will help mark the university's sesquicentennial and offer an opportunity for audiences to hear and meet several of the finest literary, visual and jazz artists of the past 40 years.
  • Classroom Spans The Globe As Robots Learn A Lesson Via The Internet
    9/19/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. ­ Talk about distance learning!
  • Suicide is Greater Danger to Cops Than Homicide, UB Study Shows
    9/18/96
    Police officers are eight times more likely to die by their own hand than by homicide, a study by University at Buffalo epidemiologists has shown.