News Releases

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

  • Korea Foundation Grant to Support UB Korean Studies
    9/13/95
    The Korea Foundation of Seoul, Korea, has made a grant of $70,000 to the World Languages Institute's Korean Language and Culture Program in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo.
  • Lee Named Senior Technology Advisor At UB
    9/12/95
    George C. Lee, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research and Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been named Senior University Advisor for Technology.
  • New Study Offers Hope of Better Treatment, Possible Cure For Urinary-Tract Infections In Women Suggests Same, Not Different, Bacteria Cause Recurring Infections
    9/8/95
    New findings on the causes of recurrent urinary-tract infections in women, reported by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Washington, may lead to better treatment and, possibly, a permanent cure.
  • "Designer Enzyme" Illuminates Subtle Difference Between Plant And Animal Protein
    9/6/95
    University at Buffalo biochemists have taken an enzyme from a bacterium found in plants and genetically engineered a mutant that requires zinc to function, a property normally found in the animal version of the enzyme.
  • UB Dental School to Care For Underserved Children With Gebbie Foundation-Funded Rural Mobile Dental Clinic
    8/28/95
    Children in Chautauqua County who may never have seen a dentist will get regular checkups in a mobile dental clinic made possible by a grant to the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine from the Gebbie Foundation, Inc.
  • Show & Tell Image-Understanding Software System "Looks," "Listens," Stores And Retrieves
    8/25/95
    A new image-understanding software system that catalogues, annotates, stores and retrieves images based on its "world-knowledge" and verbal instructions from a human user has been developed by University at Buffalo researchers.
  • PCBs In Great Lakes Fish Don't Cause Fetal Loss, Study Finds
    8/18/95
    Researchers from the University at Buffalo have found no link between consumption of PCB-contaminated sport fish and a history of spontaneous fetal death or spontaneous abortion in humans.
  • Johnstone Receives Ford Foundation Grant to Establish National Learning Productivity Network
    7/31/95
    D. Bruce Johnstone, University Professor of Higher Education in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, has been advancing a new perspective on the old challenge of productivity in higher education.
  • On The Web: National Address Server, Developed At UB, Provides Complete Nine-Digit Zip Code For Any U.S. Address
    7/27/95
    Users of the WorldWideWeb now have access to the National Address Server, a system developed at the University at Buffalo that provides the ZIP+4 code for any residential or commercial address in the U.S.
  • Patient Simulator, Cutting-Edge Training System, is Potential Addition to UB's Health-Care Teaching Arsenal
    7/21/95
    The University at Buffalo School of Nursing expects to acquire SAM, the Simulated Anesthesiology Mannikin that shows how the body responds to various drugs and adverse conditions in a safe but realistic clinical environment.