News Releases

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

  • Students Take On Challenge of Designing, Synthesizing And Testing New Reagents As Part of UB Pharmacy Course Classwork Could Lead to More Effective Cardiovascular Treatments
    5/2/95
    Spring is when most college students are writing papers or studying for exams. But in an innovative, senior-level class in the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy, students have been given a unique assignment: Design, synthesize and test a new pharmacological reagent that could lead to more effective cardiovascular treatments.
  • Rural AIDS Cases Rising Three Times Faster Than Urban Cases
    5/1/95
    AIDS cases in rural areas appear to be increasing at a rate three times faster than in metropolitan areas, where health-care facilities are better equipped to deal with the problem.
  • Rural AIDS Cases Rising Three Times Faster Than Urban Cases
    5/1/95
    AIDS cases in rural areas appear to be increasing at a rate three times faster than in metropolitan areas, where health-care facilities are better equipped to deal with the problem.
  • UB to Hold Commencement Ceremonies May 12-14
    4/27/95
    A University at Buffalo alumnus who was a pioneer in the treatment of kidney disease and a nationally known novelist and playwright will receive honorary degrees during commencement ceremonies to be held May 12-14 at the University at Buffalo.
  • Hi-Tech Computer Technology Assists UB Students In Job Searches
    4/26/95
    Graduating students at the University at Buffalo and prospective employers now have access to cutting-edge computer technology designed to assist them in job searches that have become more difficult due to corporate downsizing.
  • "Niagara Park, North America" -- Bi-National Tourism Plan For Niagara Falls Proposed By UB Planners Proposes Closing Rainbow Bridge to Vehicle Traffic
    4/26/95
    University at Buffalo graduate students in the School of Architecture and Planning will present recommendations today (Wednesday, April 26) for the development of a bi-national tourism plan for the Niagara Falls region to a group of 15 Canadian and American business persons and government officials on whose behalf they conducted the project.
  • Parents In The Dental Treatment Room....Yes Or No? Two UB Dentists Say "Yes" And Present Guidelines For Others
    4/24/95
    To allow or not to allow parents in the dental treatment room with their children -- that is a question dentists have been debating for decades.
  • Headrick Named Provost of University At Buffalo
    4/24/95
    Thomas E. Headrick, Distinguished Service Professor at the University at Buffalo and senior counselor to UB President William R. Greiner, has been named provost of the university.
  • Preventing Blindness In Premature Babies is Aim of Study
    4/24/95
    A University at Buffalo researcher has received a $436,000, two-year grant funded by the National Eye Institute to investigate a treatment that could prevent blindness in extremely premature babies.
  • Breverman Receives Meissner Prize From National Academy of Design
    4/17/95
    Harvey Breverman of Amherst, professor of art at the University at Buffalo since 1961, has been awarded the Leo Meissner Prize in Graphics by the National Academy of Design. He was elected a member of the academy two years ago.