News Releases

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

  • New On-Line Survey Designed to Define What It Means to Be "Addicted" to The Internet Will Have Application to Detect Problems In Aircraft, Automobiles And Bridges
    2/5/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Is there such a thing as Internet addiction? If so, what is it? How extensive is it? While people are talking about the phenomenon, to date it's not been well-documented.
  • UB Report On Governance In Erie County Calls For Collaboration, Public Dialogue On Issues
    2/2/96
    The Governance Project at the University at Buffalo today issued a report encouraging collaboration on issues of governance of regional significance in Erie County, with the aim of improving local governance and service delivery.
  • Chemists Create First "Green" Solvent By Combining Virtues of Water And Carbon Dioxide
    2/1/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The first environmentally friendly solvent system whose properties may be easily adjusted or "tuned" has been developed by a team of scientists at the University at Buffalo, the University of Texas, the University of Nottingham and the University of Colorado.
  • Anonymous Donor Gives UB $800,000 to Continue Distinguished Honors Scholars Program Same Donor Launched Program With $1.6 Million Cash Gift A Year Ago
    1/29/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo has received a cash gift of $800,000 for its Distinguished Honors Scholars Program from the same anonymous donor who gave a $1.6 million cash gift in January 1995 to establish the program, which covers the recipients' costs of attending UB for four years.
  • Lake Ontario Model Developed By UB Researchers Affirms State's Decision to Stock Fewer Game Fish
    1/26/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Owners of charter-boat fishing companies on Lake Ontario loudly protested the decision by New York State in 1993 to cut by 50 percent the amount of gamefish stocked in the lake.
  • UB Casting Institute to Restore 75-Year-Old Rumsey Friezes
    1/22/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Casting Institute, one of the largest institutional foundries in the United States, has announced plans to conserve and recast three large bas-relief panels produced by the late Buffalo sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey in connection with one of his last commissions.
  • UB Positions Itself For Groundbreaking Research With Creation of Center For Structural Biology
    1/17/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo has announced the establishment of the Center for Structural Biology, an interdisciplinary program that will give scientists powerful new tools with which to study the life sciences.
  • Raymond Miller Elected President of UB Dental Alumni
    1/10/96
    Raymond G. Miller, D.D.S., of Buffalo, has been elected president of the 1,300-member University at Buffalo Dental Alumni Association for 1997.
  • UB Names Massing Director of Technology Transfer Services
    1/10/96
    Daniel E. Massing has been named campus director of technology transfer services in the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University at Buffalo.
  • National Ranking Shows UB Medical School Major Contributor to Medical-School Faculties
    1/9/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences received high marks from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in its 1995 Institutional Goals Ranking Report, released late in December.