News Releases

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

  • Expert on School Discipline to Present Findings at National Conference
    1/7/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education Professor Jeremy D. Finn, PhD, will speak Thursday, Jan. 10, at a national conference on school discipline, suspensions, security and misbehavior, with special emphasis on alternatives to excluding students from schools.
  • Verbal Aggression: You May Have Picked It Up In the Womb, Says New Study
    1/4/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Research on the communication trait of verbal aggressiveness, which includes behavior like name calling, ridicule, insults, racial epithets and threats, has tended to focus on its social causes.
  • Three at UB Named SUNY Distinguished Professors
    1/4/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Three University at Buffalo faculty members have been appointed SUNY Distinguished Professors, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.
  • UB to Commemorate 213th Anniversary of Millard Fillmore’s Birthday
    1/2/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The 213th anniversary of the birth of Millard Fillmore, the University at Buffalo’s first chancellor and 13th president of the United States, will be celebrated at a ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. Jan. 7 at Fillmore’s gravesite in Buffalo’s Forest Lawn Cemetery.
  • Through Science, Alumni Give Back to Buffalo Schools
    12/28/12

    Two Hutch Tech graduates — now scientists — return to the Buffalo Public Schools to work with teachers and students in a science education program.

  • UB Incubator Program Welcomes Seven New Companies in 2012
    12/27/12

    The University at Buffalo’s business incubators welcomed seven new tenants in 2012, including companies working in Western New York’s biomedical, energy, materials and high-tech sectors.

  • UB’s “Best Value” Rank Improves, Kiplinger’s says
    12/27/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo’s standing among colleges that provide a quality education at an affordable price continues to climb, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.
  • School of Management Names Winners in ‘Extreme’ Accounting Competition
    12/20/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A team of five undergraduate students in the UB School of Management will share a $1,000 prize as winners of the ninth annual PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) xACT competition.
  • Law School Dean Honored in Kenya, Rome and U.S.
    12/19/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Makau W. Mutua, dean of the University at Buffalo Law School, has received three major honors – two in the international law arena, one here at home.
  • In Aftermath of Newtown Shootings, UB’s Nickerson and Colleagues Call for ‘Meaningful Action’
    12/19/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – The director of the University at Buffalo’s Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention is among nine school violence prevention researchers and practitioners in the country who on Dec. 19 released a detailed position statement in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.