News Releases

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

  • Can a Machine Tell When You're Lying? Research Suggests the Answer is 'Yes'
    3/26/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for clues that someone is telling a high-stakes lie, UB computer scientists are exploring whether machines can also read the visual cues that give away deceit.
  • UB Launches New Online Mental Health Counseling Certificate
    3/23/12
    The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) has established a new bridge online certificate program in Mental Health Counseling.
  • Buzzers Ready! UB Trivia Players Head to Chicago for National Tournament
    3/22/12
    A team of four University at Buffalo trivia players will head to Chicago March 30 to take on other college teams in a national, invitation-only quiz bowl. Hands clenching buzzers, they'll field questions on topics including music, literature, mythology, philosophy, geography, astronomy, quantum mechanics and more.
  • Students Develop Economic Revival Plans for Buffalo Neighborhoods
    3/22/12
    Don't tell the students in the University at Buffalo Law School's Regional Economic Development class the next big idea to revive Western New York communities isn't sitting in plain sight -- complete with reader-friendly illustrations.
  • The Smash Hit Production Of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters Coming to UB Center for the Arts
    3/22/12
    The Screwtape Letters, the smart, provocative and wickedly funny theatrical adaptation of the C.S. Lewis novel about spiritual warfare from a demon's point of view, will be presented for two performances only at the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts on Saturday, April 14, at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
  • Self-Reflective Mind -- In Animals! Psychologists Report on Continuing Advances
    3/21/12
    According to one of the leading scholars in the field, there is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans' conscious metacognition -- that is, our ability to reflect on our own mental processes and guide and optimize them.
  • After the Catastrophe: UB School of Social Work Students Help Victims Pick Up the Pieces as Red Cross Disaster Action Team Members
    3/21/12
    Imagine for a moment that it's cold and dark; you're huddled together with your family in front of your house, having just watched it burn to the ground. You have ash in your hair, smoke in your lungs and every possession you own was just incinerated.
  • Great New Apps are the Goal at UB's First Hackathon
    3/21/12
    A student organization focused on excellence in computing will hold the University at Buffalo's first hackathon, UB Hacking 2012, on March 23-24 with the goal of generating creative, new software programs (apps). The event is being held in the spirit of the original meaning of hacking: coding and building programs for computer software.
  • Duel in the Pool: Lance Armstrong's Visit to UB Will Help Teens Living with Cancer
    3/21/12
    The University at Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Melissa's Living Legacy Teen Cancer Foundation will sponsor a "Duel in the Pool" competition at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in UB's Alumni Arena Natatorium to raise funds for Teens Living with Cancer in Rochester and Buffalo.
  • A Plan to Preserve and Strengthen Erie County Farmlands--Authored by UB Grad Students
    3/20/12
    Eight graduate students in the University at Buffalo Department of Urban and Regional Planning have spent months mining the complex network of activities, actors and resources that enable the production, processing, wholesaling, distribution, consumption and disposal of the food in Erie County.