News Releases

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

  • Bridge Devices That Failed In Kobe Earthquake Are Common In Eastern And Central U.S., Says Earthquake Engineer
    9/19/95
    Damage in Japan, during January's earthquake reveals the vulnerability of bridges in the eastern and central U.S., says the deputy director of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research at the University at Buffalo.
  • Children And Adults Who Survive Earthquakes May Have Long-Term Psychological, Physiological Effects
    9/19/95
    Years after experiencing a natural disaster, both children and adults suffer from psychological and physiological effects, two University at Buffalo studies suggest.
  • UB Pharmaceutics Chair Receives Top Japanese Award
    9/15/95
    Ho-Leung Fung, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded the Takeru and Aya Higuchi Memorial Award from the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology in Japan.
  • TCIE Helps American Axle Remain Competitive
    9/13/95
    The Center for Industrial Effectiveness at the University at Buffalo is helping American Axle and Manufacturing, Inc. remain competitive by assessing, planning, scheduling and implementing education and training sessions.
  • Korea Foundation Grant to Support UB Korean Studies
    9/13/95
    The Korea Foundation of Seoul, Korea, has made a grant of $70,000 to the World Languages Institute's Korean Language and Culture Program in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo.
  • Lee Named Senior Technology Advisor At UB
    9/12/95
    George C. Lee, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research and Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been named Senior University Advisor for Technology.
  • New Study Offers Hope of Better Treatment, Possible Cure For Urinary-Tract Infections In Women Suggests Same, Not Different, Bacteria Cause Recurring Infections
    9/8/95
    New findings on the causes of recurrent urinary-tract infections in women, reported by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Washington, may lead to better treatment and, possibly, a permanent cure.
  • "Designer Enzyme" Illuminates Subtle Difference Between Plant And Animal Protein
    9/6/95
    University at Buffalo biochemists have taken an enzyme from a bacterium found in plants and genetically engineered a mutant that requires zinc to function, a property normally found in the animal version of the enzyme.
  • UB Dental School to Care For Underserved Children With Gebbie Foundation-Funded Rural Mobile Dental Clinic
    8/28/95
    Children in Chautauqua County who may never have seen a dentist will get regular checkups in a mobile dental clinic made possible by a grant to the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine from the Gebbie Foundation, Inc.
  • Show & Tell Image-Understanding Software System "Looks," "Listens," Stores And Retrieves
    8/25/95
    A new image-understanding software system that catalogues, annotates, stores and retrieves images based on its "world-knowledge" and verbal instructions from a human user has been developed by University at Buffalo researchers.