News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • African-American Servicewomen During World War II Played Role In Changing Segregationist U.S. Military Policy Book By UB Sociologist Documents Historic 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
    1/9/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- African-American women who served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II played a role in bringing about changes in segregationist U.S. military policy, a new book by a University at Buffalo sociologist has found.
  • UB Reading Clinic Seeks Children With Reading Problems For Diagnosis And Remediation
    1/9/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Reading Clinic is seeking children who have serious reading and/or learning problems for enrollment in the clinic's diagnostic and remedial program that begins Jan. 29.
  • Development of "Smart" Materials Focus of University At Buffalo Engineering Research
    1/8/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Imagine road surfaces never sullied by potholes or a construction material that could detect internal cracks as soon as they begin to form. Think of a pacemaker battery that could warn its host that it is losing power or a material that could prevent electromagnetic interference in electronic devices.
  • Laboratory Tests By UB Professor Reveal That "Rustproofing" Treatment Does Not Live Up to Claims
    12/14/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- While some corrosion-control treatments may be beneficial, a University at Buffalo professor has proven in laboratory experiments that one rust-proofing treatment billed as protecting motor vehicles against the ravages of rust -- "Rust-Evader" -- just isn't worth its salt.