News Releases

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

  • Macgillivray Elected President-Elect of Pediatric Endocrine Society
    6/16/94
    Margaret H. MacGillivray, M.D., professor and chief of the Division of Endocrinology in the Department of Pediatrics in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been elected president-elect for 1994 and president for 1995 of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society.
  • UB Students Build Geodesic Dome In Williamsville Backyard
    6/15/94
    University at Buffalo students have constructed a steel, geodesic dome house in a Williamsville backyard, similar to the ones they developed as a cheap, practical form of housing for residents of poor villages in India.
  • Childhood-Cancer Survivors With No Recurrence After 5 Years Likely Will Have Normal Life Span, Study Shows
    6/15/94
    Childhood-cancer survivors who have no recurrence of cancer in the first five years after diagnosis can expect to live as long as members of the general population, a new study by researchers from the University at Buffalo has shown.
  • UB Faculty, Staff, Librarians Receive Chancellor's Awards
    6/15/94
    Seven University at Buffalo faculty members, two librarians and three professional staff members have received 1994 SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence.
  • Media Exaggerate Epidemic of Flesh-Eating Bacteria
    6/14/94
    Media reports of an epidemic of necrotizing fasciitis caused by a flesh-eating bacteria are premature and may be causing unnecessary public angst, according to a nationally recognized expert in infectious diseases who is a professor of medicine and associate professor of microbiology at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Student-Athletes to Get Boost From $1 Million Gift From Retired Food Executive, Former UB Football Player
    6/13/94
    University at Buffalo alumnus Arthur W. Woelfle, Jr. is providing generous support for UB student-athletes meeting specific academic standards by giving the university $1 million to create a new scholarship fund that will help them prove themselves in the classroom, as well as on the playing field.
  • Infants As Young As 4 1/2 Months Recognize Their Name, Study Finds
    6/10/94
    Infants as young as 4 1/2 months can recognize their own names, even picking them out from similar-sounding names, University at Buffalo psychologists have found.
  • Macgillivray Elected President-Elect of Pediatric Endocrine Society
    6/8/94
    The United States will need 612,000 more nurses by the year 2000, according to some estimates.
  • Calkin Elected Chair of Geological Society Division
    6/6/94
    Parker E. Calkin, Ph.D., professor of geology at the University at Buffalo, has been elected 1994 chair of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America (GSA).
  • UB's Levy to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
    6/6/94
    Gerhard Levy, Ph.D., distinguished professor of pharmaceutics in the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy, will travel to Lisbon, Portugal, to receive the 1994 International Lifetime Achievement in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Award from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) for Education and Research.