News Releases

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

  • At New York State Superfund Site, UB Engineers Help Test 'green' Treatments For Hazardous Waste
    8/31/94
    Environmental engineers at the University at Buffalo are playing a leading role in one of New York State's first efforts to clean up a state Superfund site using bioremediation, an environmentally friendly and cost-effective technology.
  • University At Buffalo Opens Spectacular New Center For The Arts
    8/30/94
    University at Buffalo officials have announced the grand opening of the university's Center for the Arts, a vast, $50-million structure designed by the award-winning New York City architectural team of Gwathmey and Siegel.
  • UB Becomes A Smoke-Free University; Smoking to Be Allowed Only In Selected Residence-Hall Bedrooms
    8/29/94
    The University at Buffalo has become a smoke-free university, effective today (Monday, Aug. 29), with smoking prohibited in all university-owned and operated buildings, stadiums, vehicles, and at all outdoor events.
  • UB No. 27 On Money Magazine's National "Best Buys"
    8/26/94
    The University at Buffalo has been ranked 27th in Money magazine's annual ranking of the Top 100 college and university best buys in the United States.
  • New 'antisense' Complexes Pack Catalytic Punch, UB Team Reports
    8/25/94
    New metal complexes that stay intact while catalytically destroying ribonucleic acid (RNA) have been synthesized by University at Buffalo researchers.
  • Photorefractive Polymers Perform Better Than Costly Inorganic Materials, UB Scientists Report
    8/22/94
    A new generation of inexpensive, organic polymers with special optical properties has surpassed the performance of the costly conventional materials they may one day replace, University at Buffalo scientists have found.
  • Computer Becomes A Microscope For Some UB Medical Students First-Year Students Examine Tissues of The Body Using Computers
    8/22/94
    Histology -- the study of minute animal and plant tissues -- normally may be a dry subject, but putting lab work on the computer screen may spice it up and save students large amounts of time, according to a scientist at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB's Ronald Named Fellow In American Academy of Nursing
    8/19/94
    Judith S. Ronald, Ed.D., R.N., associate professor of nursing and coordinator of nursing informatics in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, has been named a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
  • Bruckenstein to Receive Faraday Medal
    8/19/94
    Stanley Bruckenstein, Ph.D., A. Conger Goodyear professor of chemistry at the University of Buffalo, has been awarded the Faraday Medal by the Electrochemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • UB Professor Urges Use of Case Studies to Improve Science Instruction, U.S. Scientific Literacy O.J. Simpson Case Already Utilized In Classroom Study of Dna Fingerprinting
    8/19/94
    As was the case with his televised preliminary hearing, O.J. Simpson's murder trial is going to be a legal classroom for Americans.