News Releases

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

  • Noonan Named Associate Vice Provost At UB; Kaars Appointed Director of Academic Advisement
    8/9/94
    The Office of the Provost at the University at Buffalo has made two appointments in the area of undergraduate education.
  • University At Buffalo Law School to Implement New Curriculum Designed to Help Graduates "Hit The Ground Running" Program Designed to Better Prepare Graduates For Legal Practice
    8/8/94
    The University at Buffalo School of Law this fall will implement a curriculum designed to counter the widespread concern that law schools are not adequately preparing their graduates to practice law.
  • When Drinking's Involved, White Teens Are More Likely Than Blacks to Engage In Risky Sexual Behavior, UB Study Says
    8/8/94
    Adolescents who drink or use drugs are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior and, when drinking is involved, whites teens are much more apt to engage in risky behavior than blacks, a study by University at Buffalo psychologists has found.
  • Curator of UB Poetry Collection Wins Fulbright Award
    8/5/94
    Robert J. Bertholf, curator of the University at Buffalo Poetry/Rare Books Collection, has been awarded a senior lectureship by the Fulbright Commission to teach American Studies at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, during the Fall 1994 semester.
  • Study Shows Most With Condition Do Not Develop Sepsis, Contrary to Definitions Set By Medical Groups
    8/2/94
    To identify hospital patients at risk for severe sepsis, the most common cause of death in hospital intensive-care units, the American College of Chest Physicians and the Society for Critical Care Medicine two years ago adopted new definitions of sepsis and conditions that precede it.
  • Human Brain Chemical Inhibits Sea-Urchin Spermin Same Way As Active Ingredient In Marijuana
    8/1/94
    University at Buffalo researchers have discovered that anandamide, a human brain chemical, produces the same negative effect on fertility in sea-urchin sperm as delta-9-tetrahydracannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in marijuana, by prohibiting the sperm from fertilizing the egg.
  • UB Sociologist Says Internet Replacing Personal Contact
    8/1/94
    Gabbing at the water cooler or over the back fence may become a thing of the past, thanks to the information "superhighway," a University at Buffalo sociologist says.
  • Government Downsizing Threatens Growth of Black Middle Class
    8/1/94
    The growth of the black middle class -- achieved primarily through public-sector employment -- is threatened by downsizing at all levels of government, a study by a University at Buffalo sociologist has concluded.
  • Politics Fuels Possible U.S. Invasion of Haiti, UB Historian Says
    8/1/94
    Political interests are motivating even the consideration of a U.S. military intervention in Haiti, a University at Buffalo historian says.
  • Yang Named Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers
    7/29/94
    Ralph T. Yang, Ph.D., Praxair professor and chair of the University at Buffalo Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.