News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Academic Sports Camp Helps High-School Athletes Improve Their Sat Scores By 100-200 Points
    9/13/96
    A group of New York State's top high-school athletes who attended a sports camp called ACHIEVE held this summer at the University at Buffalo exceeded their goals -- and it had nothing to do with three-pointers or touchdowns.
  • First Human Trial Shows Partial Liquid Breathing Improves Lung Function, Chances of Survival In Sick Preemies
    9/13/96
    A five-center trial of partial liquid ventilation to treat life-threatening respiratory distress syndrome in extremely premature infants has shown that the procedure is safe and effective, and improves lung function in some children who failed to respond to conventional treatment, increasing their chances of survival.