News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Hiv-Positive Children Do Not Develop Hiv-Related Oral Lesions Despite Harboring Lesion-Causing Bacteria, Study Shows
    5/15/95
    A University at Buffalo dental study designed to determine the extent of peridontal lesions in HIV-positive children and to find ways to relieve or alleviate them, has found that most of the children examined didn't have the lesions, despite harboring the disease-causing bacteria in their mouths.
  • Interest In Simpson Trial Not As Great As Media Indicates UB Survey Also Finds Prosecution Favored Over Defense, Few Believe O.J. Will Be Convicted
    5/11/95
    Americans appear to have tuned out the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial, and are not following the events as closely as the extensive media coverage would indicate, according to a national survey conducted by a University at Buffalo researcher.
  • First Human Trial Shows Partial Liquid Breathing Improves Lung Function In Desperately Ill Preemies
    5/10/95
    An experimental treatment for life-threatening respiratory distress syndrome, developed by researchers at the University at Buffalo and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, is safe and can save the lives of seriously ill premature infants, results of a five-center pilot study have shown.
  • Nolan Elected to Mastership In Physicians College
    5/9/95
    James P. Nolan, M.D., chair of the Department of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and chief of medicine at The Buffalo General Hospital, has been elected to mastership in the American College of Physicians.
  • UB Physician Wins Coveted Robert Wood Johnson Award
    5/8/95
    Carlos Roberto Jaén, Ph.D., M.D., assistant professor of family medicine and social and preventive medicine at the University at Buffalo, is one of 15 people in the United States selected to receive 1995 Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
  • UB Releases 1994 Research Report Industry Support For UB Research Reaches A Record $19 Million
    5/5/95
    For the first time, industrial sponsorship of research at the University at Buffalo last year surpassed all categories of external support of research besides federal, according to the Fiscal Year 1994 Year-End Report of the Vice President for Research.
  • Goldstar Co. Donates $200,000 to Support UB Korean Studies
    5/5/95
    A $200,000 gift to help expand Korean language and culture programs at the University at Buffalo has been donated to the university by LG Electronics, formerly called Lucky Goldstar Co., one of Korea's leading technology companies.
  • 4 UB Faculty Members Named SUNY Distinguished Professors
    5/3/95
    Four faculty members at the University at Buffalo have been named a Distinguished Professor, the highest rank in the State University of New York system, by the SUNY Board of Trustees.