News Releases

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

  • UB Student Union to Be Opened Officially Nov. 21
    11/5/92
    A series of programs celebrating the opening of the University at Buffalo's new Student Union will be held on Thursday, Nov. 12.
  • UB Poet Awarded $369,000 By MacArthur Foundation
    6/16/92
    Irving Feldman, distinguished professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo and a poet of national distinction, is the recipient of a $369,000 fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a foundation spokesperson said today.
  • UB Pediatrician Uses the Movies to Teach Other Physicians How to Teach
    4/13/92
    The scene is from the movie "Footloose." Rock and roll blares from a tape deck parked on the hood of a car while actor Kevin Bacon demonstrates all the right moves for his rhythm-impaired friend Christopher Penn so that he won't be humiliated at a high school dance. You might watch this film at home on a slow night. Richard Sarkin, M.D., on the other hand, uses the movie clip with its dance lesson to teach physicians how to teach.
  • UB Study Finds Connection Between Level of Social Interaction and Lower Blood Pressure
    1/9/92
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A study of social interaction and its relationship to blood pressure conducted at the State University of New York at Buffalo shows that people with an extensive social network have lower blood pressure than people with little social contact.
  • Moore, Sawner Appointed to Top Positions in Office of President William R. Greiner
    11/4/91
    Muriel A. Moore has been appointed deputy to the president and Kathryn A. Sawner has been named executive assistant to the president by University at Buffalo President William R. Greiner. They previously served as assistants to the president.
  • New Stadium to Bolster UB Sports Programs, Attract Sports Competitions to Western New York
    9/17/91
    The $22 million stadium being constructed on the State University of New York at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus to house track-and-field events for the 1993 World University Games is a world-class facility that will be used for collegiate, as well as international sporting events, once the games are over.
  • The "White City" and the American Dream – 100 Years of Amusement Parks
    9/6/91
    To library director Judith A. Adams of the University at Buffalo, the amusement park is more than a thrill a minute. It's a gleaming temple to the American dream -- canned fun served up in a somewhat whitened sepulchre.
  • Genco to Receive Dentistry's Top Research Award from American Dental Association
    8/8/91
    Robert J. Genco, D.D.S., Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Oral Biology at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, is recipient of dentistry's most prestigious research award, the American Dental Association's Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Dental Research.
  • Lack of Siblings Increases Blood Pressure Risk
    7/26/91
    Being an only child increases your risk for high blood pressure, according to a study by researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
  • Puerto Rican Literary Scholar to Head UB American Studies Department
    7/16/91
    Alfredo Matilla Rivas has been named chair of the Department of American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo for a three-year term effective July 7, 1991 by William R. Greiner, interim president of the university.