News Releases

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

  • Winter to Be Next Dean of UB School of Management
    1/25/93
    Frederick W. Winter, Ph.D., head of the Department of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be the next dean of the School of Management at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
  • Winter to Be Next Dean of UB School of Management
    1/25/93
    Frederick W. Winter, Ph.D., head of the Department of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be the next dean of the School of Management at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
  • UB Receives $1.5 Million Gift for Medical Informatics Chair
    1/20/93
    One of the nation's first professorships in medical informatics has been established at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences through a $1.5 million gift in honor of the late Ira G. Ross by his widow, Elizabeth Pierce Olmsted Ross, M.D., a 1939 graduate of the medical school.
  • Moore Named Vice President at University at Buffalo
    12/7/92
    Muriel A. Moore has been named vice president for public service and urban affairs at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
  • 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.