News Releases

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

  • UB's School of Social Work Adopts Trauma-Informed Care as a Guiding Principle
    8/20/12
    Like many powerful ideas, the essence is simple. Those dealing with people who have a mental illness or addiction problem have to start asking what has happened to the person that may be causing the issue, not just focus on what the person did and what went wrong.
  • Cropp Named 2012 Buffalo Niagara Executive of the Year
    8/20/12
    Michael W. Cropp, MD, president and CEO of Independent Health, has been named the 2012 Buffalo Niagara Executive of the Year by the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Media Advisory: 143 Future Physicians to Participate in UB's White Coat Ceremony
    8/17/12
    One hundred and forty-three students will take their first, public step toward becoming physicians on Aug. 17 when they participate in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences' White Coat Ceremony at 3 p.m. in the Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the North Campus.
  • Coolture: Fighting Heat Intolerance With Fashion
    8/17/12
    UB helps a former DKNY designer launch Coolture, an apparel company devoted to keeping people with chronic illnesses cool -- and stylish -- in summer.
  • UB and SUNY Fredonia to Offer Business Improvement Programs
    8/17/12
    Chautauqua County professionals will have easier access to business improvement education thanks to a new partnership between the University at Buffalo and SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator.
  • World's Largest Tobacco Use Study Reveals Tobacco Control Remains A Major Challenge
    8/17/12
    An international survey of tobacco use in three billion individuals, published in the current issue of The Lancet demonstrates an urgent need for policy change in low- and middle-income countries, according to the University at Buffalo professor who led the research.
  • Real to Reel: Ancient Greece and Rome in the Movies
    8/16/12
    Was "Spartacus" an anti-fascist polemic? Does "Agora" demonstrate the horrors of anti-science religious zealotry? Did the Trojans really dress only in blue and white outfits? Quiz: Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor in un-credited roles plus 32,000 costumes. The answers are yes, yes, no and "Quo Vadis."
  • Women Transcending the Trivial: Food, Fun and Social Justice Trivia with the UB Society of Feminists
    8/16/12
    If you know when doctors claimed education dangerous to women's health or the name of Harriot Blatch's mom, you're in luck. Because most pub trivia questions tend to overlook people of color, women and LGBT folks, the University at Buffalo graduate group Society of Feminists (UBSoFem) has partnered with Merge restaurant and bar to present what they call "an affirming night of historical, current and pop-culture trivia that honors on-going struggles for social justice."
  • UB Archaeologists Digging Up Buffalo's Canalside
    8/15/12
    For several years, teams of University at Buffalo archaeologists from the Buffalo Archaeological Survey have conducted digs in downtown Buffalo along what was the Erie Canal. The artifacts they've found, when considered together, help describe how Buffalonians lived and worked from the early 1800s onward.
  • RIA Gets Close to $1 Million to Study Aspects of Gambling, Alcoholism and Smoking
    8/14/12
    What are the effects of gambling availability among specific populations? How do you control that impulse to have "just one more drink"? Can a spouse really help a loved one quit smoking?