News Releases

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

  • Legal Scholar Says Romney "Absolutely Legally Responsible for Bain Capital After 1999"
    8/2/12
    "Mitt Romney absolutely was legally responsible for the actions of Bain Capital after he 'retired' from the company in 1999 to run the Utah Olympics," says David Westbrook, JD, a legal scholar and recognized voice in corporate, contract and international law.
  • UB Center for the Arts Announces 2012-13 Season
    8/1/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo announces its 2012-13 season, which this season will feature two Broadway musicals -- American Idiot and Shrek the Musical -- among other highlights.
  • Forbes Features UB Grad on All-Star Student Entrepreneurs List
    8/1/12
    Forbes today named a 2011 UB graduate to the magazine's exclusive list of 2012 All-Star Student Entrepreneurs, which honors nine young men and women around the country who launched significant businesses while still in school.
  • In Fly DNA, the Footprint of a Fly Virus
    8/1/12
    In a curious evolutionary twist, several species of a commonly studied fruit fly appear to have incorporated genetic material from a virus into their genomes, according to new research by University at Buffalo biologists.
  • DuPont Young Professors Award Goes to UB Faculty Member
    7/31/12
    University at Buffalo chemist Andrew Murkin, PhD, was selected as one of nine scientists to receive a 2012 DuPont Young Professor grant, which funds highly original research by early-career investigators around the world.
  • Simulating Volcano Eruptions, One Blast at a Time
    7/31/12
    A voice carried across the treeless plateau: "Fire in the hole! The range is now active." Two dozen people fell silent before a muffled blast sent a geyser-like shower of crushed gravel, limestone and asphalt roughly 50 feet in the air. Moments later, standing at the blast site, University at Buffalo geology professor Greg Valentine gave an impromptu assessment.
  • State Cites UB's Traffic Safety Programs
    7/31/12
    The University at Buffalo Police Department's (UBPD) numerous traffic safety initiatives earned special recognition at the annual New York Law Enforcement Challenge Awards ceremony during the Empire State Law Enforcement Traffic Safety Conference.
  • David Schirm Receives Fellowship from NY Foundation for the Arts
    7/31/12
    The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced that David Schirm of Batavia, professor of visual studies at the University at Buffalo, has received one of its 2012 Artist Fellowships.
  • 'Hitler at Home' -- A Study in the Politics of Domestic Aesthetics
    7/30/12
    Architectural historian Despina Stratigakos, an award-winning scholar of modern German architecture, is at work on the first in-depth study of the aesthetic and ideological constructions of the "domestic" Adolf Hitler and the uses to which they were put by propagandists of the Third Reich.
  • UB's Steve Kurtz -- One of Europe's Popular Experimental Artists
    7/27/12
    Steve Kurtz, professor of visual studies at the University at Buffalo, a social critic known for his work in bio art and electronic disobedience, has had a busy summer in Europe where he has been involved in three high-visibility projects.