News Releases

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

  • Professor Encourages Parents to Resist Perennial Pleas For Expensive Back-to-School Clothing Says Children Can Be Taught to Be Smart Shoppers
    8/18/94
    Parents may cringe as they anticipate the battles that are looming as the back-to-school shopping season arrives. Yet they can weather the pleas for $150 sneakers and $200 jackets by taking charge and teaching their children to be educated shoppers, a University at Buffalo marketing professor advises.
  • $276,000 Grant From U.S. Education Department to Allow UB Law Clinic to Expand Aid to Victims of Domestic Violence
    8/17/94
    A three-year, $276,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education will allow the University at Buffalo School of Law to expand its domestic violence clinical program from part-time to full-time status and to enlarge its focus to include the entire family, not just the spouse or partner.
  • UB Faculty Members Suggest Designing Video Games For Girls
    8/16/94
    Designing video games specifically for girls isn't sexist. In fact, it may help raise girls' self-esteem and foster an interest in computers, two University at Buffalo faculty members say.
  • UB Receives Getty Grant For Martin House Conservation
    8/16/94
    The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has been awarded a $91,000 Project Implementation Grant from the Getty Grant Program to help fund conservation of the Darwin D. Martin House on Jewett Parkway.
  • Social Support During Pregnancy Linked to Birth Outcomes
    8/12/94
    The support of family and friends during pregnancy can make a difference in the health and well-being of both mother and child, a University at Buffalo psychologist reported today (Friday, Aug. 12) at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.
  • Buck Receives Fellowship to Study Tubal Ligation
    8/11/94
    Germaine S. Buck, Ph.D., assistant professor of social and preventive medicine at the University at Buffalo, has won one of two fellowships sponsored annually by the Merck Company Foundation and the Society for Epidemiology Research.
  • UB to Organize Primary-Care Initiatives Under Regional Network
    8/11/94
    In an effort to help meet the nationwide shortage of primary-care physicians, the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will combine its various initiatives designed to attract more medical students and undergraduates to the primary-care field under one umbrella organization.
  • New University At Buffalo Gallery to Expand Regional Art Menu
    8/10/94
    An ambitious new art gallery will open on Oct. 28 in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts, itself a brand new, $41.8 million structure designed by the award-winning New York architectural team of Gwathmey and Siegal.
  • Murphy Named Investigator of The Year By Research Group
    8/10/94
    Timothy Murphy, M.D., professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo and head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Buffalo, has been named investigator of the year by the American Federation of Clinical Research -- Eastern Region.
  • Dna Fingerprinting Class Teaches UB Students to Finger A Killer
    8/9/94
    Results of DNA testing in the O.J. Simpson murder trial may not be revealed for weeks, but on Wednesday, Aug. 10, students in a University at Buffalo biology course will be using models of such tests to "convict" a murderer in a hypothetical case.