News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • UB Archivist Co-Authors First History of State's Quakers
    7/17/95
    Christopher Densmore, University at Buffalo associate archivist, has a principle research interest: the early history of New York's Quakers, who, though nominal in number, have had enormous influence on American life and polity.
  • Creeley Receives Fulbright Grant to Lecture In New Zealand
    7/13/95
    Robert Creeley, Samuel Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to spend three months lecturing at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • New Mouse Model For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy May Improve Screening of New Treatments
    7/1/95
    University at Buffalo biologists have developed a new mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy that may more accurately than current models simulate the progression of this fatal disease.
  • Indonesian Teachers Studying At UB to Support Country's Move to Industrialization
    6/26/95
    Eighteen Indonesian school teachers -- all but two of whom left families and children behind in Indonesia to take part in the project -- arrived at the University at Buffalo earlier this month to begin two years of postgraduate study to become master teachers.
  • UB Establishes Exchange Program With Thai University
    6/23/95
    The University at Buffalo has established an exchange program with Chulalongkorn University, Thailand's oldest and most prestigious university.
  • Women Working In Professional And Executive Positions Have Lower Breast-Cancer Risk, UB Study Shows
    6/23/95
    A study of a possible link between breast cancer and occupation, conducted by University at Buffalo epidemiologists, shows that premenopausal women who work in professional or executive positions appear to be at lower risk of developing the disease than women who do not.
  • Study Shows First Evidence That Colon-Cancer Subtypes Are Linked to Different Dietary Risk Factors
    6/23/95
    Molecular epidemiologists from Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo and the University at Buffalo have shown for the first time that colon cancers that develop along separate pathways respond differently to known dietary risk factors.
  • Black/White Hypertension Ratio Has Not Dropped Over Time; May Have Increased For Both Males And Females High Blood Pressure Still Plagues More Blacks Than Whites, UB Study Shows
    6/23/95
    High blood pressure continues to affect more blacks than whites, despite suggestions that the differential has equalized over time, a comparison of blood pressure readings from studies conducted 26 years apart has shown.