News Releases

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

  • "Not By The Chair of My Hinny Hin Hin": Young Kids' Slips of The Tongue Show Mechanism For Language Similar to Adults
    10/7/94
    We all laugh when young children make speech errors, or slips of the tongue: when a two-year-old says, "Her run is nosing," instead of "Her nose is running." Or when an impatient three-year-old, waiting for her mother to finish a task, says, "Mom, when are you going to be dead? I mean, done?"
  • State Awards UB Medical School $500,000 to Support Primary-Care Training Efforts
    10/7/94
    The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo has received a $500,000 grant from the New York State Department of Health to fund projects to encourage students to become primary-care physicians.
  • UB Research Team Shows Estrogen Levels Affect Cognitive Abilities of Postmenopausal Women
    10/6/94
    Low levels of estrogen may impair some cognitive functions, while estrogen-replacement therapy may help improve certain thinking and biological brain processes, and also may play a role in elevating mood, results of studies involving postmenopausal women conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.
  • UB Dental Researchers Honored At Periodontology Meeting
    10/5/94
    Two University at Buffalo dental researchers were honored for their contributions to the field of periodontology at the 80th meeting of the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP), held last month in San Francisco.
  • Hughes Institute Awards $1.5 Million to UB to Improve Biological Sciences Teaching, Retain Students Grant Targets Undergraduates, Minorities And WNY High-School Students
    10/4/94
    The University at Buffalo has received a $1.5 million grant from the nation's largest private philanthropy to improve undergraduate biological-sciences education at the university, as well as science instruction in high schools in Western New York.
  • Ruckenstein Receives Award From American Chemical Society
    10/4/94
    Eli Ruckenstein, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, has received the Langmuir Distinguished Lecturer Award of the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
  • Prezio Elected Fellow of American College of Nuclear Physicians
    10/4/94
    Joseph A. Prezio, M.D., clinical professor and chair of the Department of Nuclear Medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Nuclear Physicians, a national organization of nuclear medicine physicians.
  • Special to Arts Editors And Music Critics In 1995, June In Buffalo Celebrates Its Source
    10/3/94
    june in buffalo, the annual festival and conference devoted to emerging composers of new music, will take place June 5-11, 1995, at the University at Buffalo.
  • Antibiotic-Resistance Increasing Problem In Treating Otitis Media; Study Shows 3 Bacteria Resisting Drugs
    9/26/94
    Three types of bacteria responsible for up to 90 percent of middle-ear infections in children have developed significant resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics, a study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Massachusetts has shown.
  • New UB System Turns Hard Copy Into Electronic Mail, Reads Business Reply Cards Right At The Post Office
    9/23/94
    Fill out a business reply card to subscribe to a magazine or place a merchandise order and soon you may be sending your order for a ride on the information superhighway.