News Releases

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

  • Research Team Quantifying The Sense of Touch
    12/1/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Our tactile capabilities are central to almost all that we do. "Touch is the first sensory system that goes on-line when you're born, and it's probably the last one to go," says Jonathon Bell, Ph.D., mathematics professor at the University at Buffalo.
  • Computational Study of Kidneys Aims to Identify How They Work, Complexities of Blood Pressure
    12/1/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- By regulating the concentrations of hundreds, or even thousands, of substances in blood plasma and by releasing hormones to regulate blood pressure and other critical functions, the kidneys maintain an organism's chemical balance.
  • New Book is First Study of Strategies Used By NGOS to Protect Human Rights In Africa
    11/17/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Political scientist Claude E. Welch, Jr. has completed the first major comparative study of how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have wrought a revolutionary change in Africa by uncovering human-rights abuses and advocating for reform.
  • Early Metabolic Changes In Rats That Make Them Obese Later In Life Are Passed On to Their Offspring
    11/17/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Can changes in the diets of newborns that cause them to be obese later in life predispose their offspring to be obese as well?
  • Lopos Named Dean of Millard Fillmore College and Summer Sessions at UB
    11/16/95
    George John Lopos, Ph.D., has been appointed dean of Millard Fillmore College and summer sessions at the University at Buffalo by Muriel A. Moore, Ph.D., vice president for public service and urban affairs.
  • Drinking Patterns And Gender, Not Quantity, May Determine Alcohol’S Effect On Health, New UB Study Shows
    11/14/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A new study to be presented tomorrow will report that the effect of alcohol on long-term health may depend as much on the way it is consumed and on the gender of the drinker, as on how much is consumed.
  • New Software Translates Chinese to English, "Understands" What It Translates
    11/10/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A software package that translates Chinese to English and comprehends what it's translating has been developed by a graduate student in the University at Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science.
  • In Fiscal Hard Times, Colleges And Universities Find That Environmental Measures Pay Off
    11/8/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Environmental issues on campus are sparking as much interest from university administrators as from students, according to a new book, Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century, published by the National Wildlife Federation.
  • UB Approved to Offer First SUNY Ph.D. Program In Physical Therapy/Exercise Science
    11/3/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo will offer a Ph.D. program in the Department of Physical Therapy and Exercise Science beginning in Fall 1996, making it the only campus in the SUNY system approved to confer a doctor of philosophy degree in this field.
  • Children Do Better Than Their Parents When It Comes to Taking Weight Off And Keeping It Off Longer, UB Study Shows
    11/3/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Obese children take pounds off easier and keep them off longer than their obese parents, the first study to compare weight loss and weight-loss maintenance of children and adults enrolled in the same treatment program has shown.