News Releases

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

  • UB Scientists Find That Nerve Cells 'prefer' to Grow On Teflon-Type Surface Created In Their Laboratory Goal is Systems That Would Allow Damaged Nerve Tissue to Regenerate
    6/2/95
    University at Buffalo scientists and collaborators at other institutions working on substrates for nerve-tissue regeneration have developed new surface chemistry to create the first modified Teflon surface that controls how cells stick to it.
  • Complexity Theory May Offer Best Benchmarks For Testing Computer Hardware And Software
    6/1/95
    A mathematical approach called complexity theory may be more effective than current methods used to test performance claims for computer hardware and software, according to computer scientists at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Awards Multidisciplinary Grants to 16 Faculty Teams
    5/31/95
    Sixteen faculty teams at the University at Buffalo with excellent ideas for original, multidisciplinary research have been awarded grants totaling more than $300,000 by the university.
  • National Panel Headed By UB Specialist to Release First Stroke-Rehabilitation Guidelines
    5/24/95
    A national panel of stroke-rehabilitation experts today released the first comprehensive guidelines for stroke recovery, recommendations that will provide survivors, families and health professionals across the U.S. with a common blueprint for returning stroke patients to optimum health.
  • University At Buffalo And Jagiellonian University Produce Book On Libraries And The Democratic Process
    5/24/95
    For nearly 50 years, librarians in Poland were educated, professionally trained and required to work under a central-government library system that severely restricted the collection of vast amounts of published material and limited public and scholarly access to even these restricted collections.
  • Study Highlights Need For More Knowledge of Pain Management Nurses Believe Physicians Are Not Well-Informed On Topic
    5/23/95
    Undermedication is the most important problem of pain management in hospitals, one of the first studies to investigate how nurses assess their knowledge of pain and their skill in alleviating it has shown.
  • UB Pharmacy Dean is Awarded Top Pharmacology Honor
    5/19/95
    David J. Triggle, Ph.D., dean of the School of Pharmacy and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded the Otto Krayer Award in Pharmacology by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
  • First Western-Style MBA Program In Eastern Europe, Located In Latvia, Graduates Initial Class University At Buffalo, University of Ottawa Partners In Landmark Effort
    5/17/95
    The first Western-style master's of business administration program in Eastern Europe will graduate its first class Saturday as the result of a U.S.-Canadian effort involving funding from the federal governments of both countries and the faculty and administration at the University at Buffalo and University of Ottawa.
  • UB is Prime Contractor For $1.4 Million Project to Protect San Diego Building From Earthquake Damage
    5/17/95
    The U.S. Department of the Navy has awarded a $1.4 million contract to the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER), headquartered at the University at Buffalo, to design and install new seismic-protection technology in a Navy office-supply building in San Diego.
  • Novel Penicillin-Type Structures May Provide Leads On Antibiotics For Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria
    5/16/95
    Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo have, by rearranging the molecular structure of penicillin, recently synthesized several novel classes of penicillin-type chemical structures that may serve as fresh leads in the search for new antibiotics.