News Releases

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

  • Children's Mental Health Care in NYS Gets Much-Needed Help with Program Headed by UB Psychiatrist
    6/1/12
    Childrens' psychosocial problems are among the most common reasons for pediatric office visits. But since there is a critical shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists in the nation and New York State, many pediatricians and family physicians end up providing much of their patients' psychiatric care. Through 2014, New York State pediatricians and family physicians will be getting some much-needed help, thanks to a project being led by David Kaye, MD, professor of psychiatry in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB to Honor Kaleida Health, Buffalo Public Schools and Innovative Faculty at UB Partners Day
    5/31/12
    Kaleida Health and Buffalo Public Schools will be among organizations and individuals recognized as important UB partners during UB Partners Day on June 13. The event features an awards luncheon and workshops showcasing how UB, businesses, nonprofits and public agencies are collaborating to support Buffalo Niagara's economic growth.
  • National Grid Partners with UB to Offer Summer Camp for Tomorrow's Engineers
    5/31/12
    Where can future engineers go to build robots, learn about engineering disasters and test toy buildings on a life-sized earthquake shake table? Beginning this July, they can go to the University at Buffalo, thanks to a generous gift from National Grid.
  • UB Launches PhD Program in Urban and Regional Planning
    5/31/12
    The University at Buffalo has announced that it will launch a new doctoral program in Urban and Regional Planning in its School of Architecture and Planning.
  • UB Student Awarded Research Grant to Stop the Noise
    5/30/12
    University at Buffalo neuroscience PhD student Sarah Hayes has won a $10,000 grant from the American Tinnitus Association (ATA) to aid her in her search for the causes of tinnitus.
  • UB Chair of Medicine is Honored by Heart Rhythm Society for Distinguished Service
    5/30/12
    Anne B. Curtis, MD, Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has received the 2012 Distinguished Service Award from the Heart Rhythm Society.
  • For Every Dollar Spent, Award to UB Emergency Department Should Save $2 on WNY Health Care Costs
    5/30/12
    The $2.57 million federal Health Care Innovation Award, granted earlier this month to the University at Buffalo, is expected to save at least $2 in health care costs in Western New York for every dollar provided, says G. Richard Braen, MD, principal investigator, chair of the UB Department of Emergency Medicine and associate dean of graduate medical education at the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Program Will Bring Diversity to Biomedical and Behavioral Science
    5/29/12
    The University at Buffalo has been awarded nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to fund the education of 20 new biomedical and behavioral scientists from underrepresented groups between now and 2016.
  • First Female Native American Earns PhD in Engineering at UB
    5/29/12
    Seeing the Rocky Mountains usually tops the list of things to do when visiting Colorado. Not for Shannon Seneca, who vacationed there after graduating high school 15 years ago. Upon landing in Denver, she headed straight for the Rocky Flats Plant, a former nuclear weapons production facility.
  • Wallenda's High-Wire Walk: Experts Weigh in on Water Plumes, Crowd Psychology and Angry Falcons
    5/29/12
    On June 15, high-wire artist Nik Wallenda will attempt to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope -- the first such attempt in more than 100 years. University at Buffalo experts are available to discuss the nature of such spectacles, their role in popular culture, the Niagara mist plume, crowd psychology and the kinds of risks involved in this venture.