News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Worldwide Engineering Society to Present Mates Award For Outstanding Achievement In Bioengineering
    9/27/95
    Robert E. Mates, Ph.D., will receive the H. R. Lissner Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME International) at its International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition next month in San Francisco.
  • Fruit-Fly Paralysis Leads Researchers to Discover Protein Required For Nervous-System Function
    9/22/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Studies of mutant fruit flies have led University at Buffalo pharmacologists to discover a previously unknown protein that plays a key role in the electrical signals that are the basis for nervous-system function.
  • UB Program Provides Patients With Hypertension Closer, More Frequent Monitoring
    9/20/95
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Buffalo area residents who are being treated for hypertension now have an opportunity to get personalized counseling and monitoring every time they go to three local pharmacies.
  • UB No. 15 In U.S. News & World Report "Best-Value" Ranking
    9/19/95
    For the second year in a row, the University at Buffalo has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as being among the top national universities in the country offering the best value -- a quality education at a reasonable cost.