News Releases

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

  • Poland's Jagiellonian University Presents Highest Award to UB President Greiner
    10/16/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- University at Buffalo President William R. Greiner received the Medal Merentibus -- the highest distinction conferred by Poland's Jagiellonian University -- in ceremonies held Oct. 2 at the university in Crakow.
  • University At Buffalo Asked to Assist In Bosnian Social Reconstruction Effort
    10/13/95
    The English Language Institute of the University at Buffalo is exploring the possibility of opening an intensive English language program at Tuzla University once the Bosnian war has ended.
  • Philip Coppens to Receive First Harker Award From Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
    10/12/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Philip Coppens, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been selected as the first winner of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute's David Harker, Ph.D., Award.
  • First Evidence That Sex Differences In Brain Organization Exist Early In Life Reported By UB Neuroscientists
    10/11/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A study of brain organization in prepubertal children by University at Buffalo neuroscientists has demonstrated for the first time that differences in the way the male and female brains process information are present early in life, and are not laid down during the hormonal surges of puberty, as previously thought.
  • National Symposiums, Historical Exhibits to Highlight UB Medical School’S 150th Birthday
    10/10/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A three-day national symposium on Ethics and Values in Medicine, the national meeting of the American Association of the History of Medicine and a special opera performance will highlight the celebration of the 150th birthday of the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Michael Cohen to Head Child Neurology Society
    10/5/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Michael E. Cohen, M.D., professor of neurology and pediatrics and chair of the University at Buffalo Department of Neurology, has been elected president of the Child Neurology Society for a two-year term beginning in October.
  • David Triggle Named Dean of UB Graduate School
    9/29/95
    David J. Triggle, Ph.D., dean of the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and SUNY Distinguished Professor, has been named dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for Graduate Education at UB.
  • Scientists Study Hearing Loss, Develop Therapy For AIDS Condition, Use Pet Scan to Detect Cancer
    9/29/95
    Scientists at the University at Buffalo reported the following research results at the recent meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology in New Orleans.
  • Pediatricians Ban Together to Educate Adults In Effort to Decrease Violence By And Against Children Stress Violence is A Learned Behavior; Parents And Tv Are The "Teachers"
    9/29/95
    We've all heard statistics like this: Every 75 minutes a child in the United States is starved, beaten, shot or killed in some violent manner. Sometimes a child does the beating, the shooting, the killing.
  • "Portraits In Steel" Receives 1995 Book Award From Oral History Association
    9/28/95
    "Portraits in Steel," the nationally celebrated collaborative work on Buffalo steelworkers by University at Buffalo history professor Michael Frisch and documentary photographer Milton Rogovin, both of Buffalo, has received the 1995 Book Award from the Oral History Association -- the first ever presented by the organization.