News Releases

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

  • UB Physicist Wins Serbia's Prestigious Marko Jaric Award
    8/31/12
    Dejan Stojkovic, an associate professor of physics at the University at Buffalo, has received the Marko Jaric Award, recognized as one of the most prestigious scientific prizes granted to researchers of Serbian origin.
  • One-of-a-Kind Smartphone Lab Takes Shape at UB
    8/30/12
    University at Buffalo researchers are enlisting hundreds of students to build an unprecedented smartphone network that will help scientists improve handheld computers and better understand how the devices are changing the world.
  • A New Perk for UB Incubator and Spinoff Companies: Affordable Insurance
    8/30/12
    The University at Buffalo is partnering with the Research Foundation for SUNY to offer a key benefit to startup companies with UB ties: affordable insurance.
  • UB Nursing Dean Selected for Prestigious Leadership Program
    8/28/12
    Marsha Lewis, PhD, RN, professor and dean of the University at Buffalo School of Nursing was selected by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) for its inaugural class of nursing deans and senior faculty to participate in the first AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program.
  • Celebrate Returning to School at UB's Family Carnival
    8/28/12
    The University at Buffalo's Early Childhood Research Center will celebrate its 80th anniversary in style with a Family Carnival to be held from 1-4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, on UB's North Campus.
  • Summer Research Projects take UB Honors College Students to Unexpected Places
    8/28/12
    Most college students spent the last few months back home enjoying the warm weather and their mother's home-cooked meals. However, Haley Arnold, a University at Buffalo sophomore chemistry major, found herself on Sapelo Island, a small unpopulated island off the coast of Georgia, researching algae blooms.
  • UB Expert: Most People Exposed to West Nile Virus Never Have Symptoms, But Prevention is Best Defense in this High Incidence Year
    8/27/12
    While the death toll from the West Nile virus cases in the U.S., currently 41, is alarming, most people exposed to it never develop symptoms, notes Tom Russo, MD, professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Hoppity, Hippity, It's Serendipity: UB's Shepard to Present at Venice Architecture Biennale
    8/24/12
    The Venice Architecture Biennale is the most prestigious architecture event in the world, and when the 13th biennale opens on Aug. 29, University at Buffalo innovator Mark Shepard will be there with bells on.
  • West Nile Virus Could Still Have an Impact in WNY, Says UB Professor of Medicine
    8/24/12
    Richard Lee, MD, professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, says it's too early to assume that we won't see a spike in cases, even though we are now into late summer.
  • Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: Battles Over Segregated Recreation Shaped Civil Rights Movement
    8/23/12
    Victoria W. Wolcott, PhD, associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, is the author of a new book in which she exposes the legacy of segregated recreation in American cities after World War II. The book, "Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America," out this month from the University of Pennsylvania Press, continues Wolcott's research on the African-American experience in the 20th-century urban North.