News Releases

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

  • UB Partners with Zimbabwe Universities to Create International Nanotechnology Center
    9/24/12
    With 14 percent of Zimbabwe's population living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis as a co-infection, the need for new drugs and new formulations of available treatments is crucial
  • UB Anthropologist to be Named Honorary Chief of Nigerian Town
    9/24/12
    Along the quiet corridors of the University at Buffalo Department of Anthropology labors a man who, unknown to his colleagues, has been a hero to the Igbomina Yoruba town of Esie (ess-ee-YEH) in southwest Nigeria for nearly five decades.
  • J. Craig Venter Receives Honorary Doctorate, Extols Virtues of the CTRC, UB's Newest Research Facility
    9/24/12
    J. Craig Venter, PhD, the pioneering biologist who led the first team to sequence the human genome, received a State University of New York Honorary Doctorate in Science at the University at Buffalo on Sept. 20. The honorary degree was conferred on him at a ceremony that followed the grand opening of UB's Clinical and Translational Research Center in the joint UB-Kaleida Health building in downtown Buffalo.
  • UB Humanities Institute to Showcase Work of SUNY Distinguished Professor Jorge Gracia
    9/21/12
    The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute will honor Jorge J.E. Gracia, PhD, Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, on Sept. 28 at its Annual Scholar Session.
  • Professor's Book Reveals the "Silent Epidemic" of Health Hazards Caused by Coal
    9/21/12
    Coal kills. That's the message of "The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health" by Alan H. Lockwood, MD, University at Buffalo emeritus professor of neurology.
  • Seven Faculty Members Receive Meyerson Awards
    9/21/12
    The University at Buffalo Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity has been renamed the President Emeritus and Mrs. Martin Meyerson Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring.
  • Techne Institute Promotes Research at Intersections of Arts and New Technologies
    9/21/12
    The realms in which creativity and information technologies meet are dynamic areas of research. They depend, however, on new kinds of creative collaboration to provoke a greater understanding of our world, generate jobs, produce revenue and improve quality of life. To encourage the development of the creative economy of this region and to establish the University at Buffalo as a leader in this field, the university has established the Techne Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies.
  • RIA Takes the Challenge on Reducing College Student Substance Use
    9/20/12
    No longer considered an innocent rite of passage, binge drinking among college students contributes to approximately 1,800 deaths and nearly 600,000 injuries each year.
  • Media Advisory: Filmmaker, Composer and UB to Honor Bruce Jackson
    9/20/12
    The life's work and accomplishments of University at Buffalo scholar Bruce Jackson will be honored in a special tribute titled "A Celebration of the Arts to Honor Bruce Jackson: Working in Time" on Friday, Sept. 21, from 1-5 p.m. in Slee Hall on the North Campus. A reception in the Center for the Arts Atrium will follow from 5-6 p.m.
  • Grand Opening of UB's Clinical and Translational Research Center Marks Move Downtown of UB Medical School Researchers
    9/20/12
    The University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences today held the grand opening of its Clinical and Translational Research Center in the joint UB-Kaleida Health building at Goodrich and Ellicott streets in downtown Buffalo.