News Releases

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

  • UB Announces Interim Athletic Director
    2/16/12
    University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi has announced that John Lambert, senior associate athletic director, will serve as interim athletic director of the Division of Athletics effective March 14.
  • Media Advisory: CNN Anchor Soledad O'Brien to Present UB MLK Address in Kleinhans
    2/15/12
    CNN anchor, special correspondent and author Soledad O'Brien will present the University at Buffalo's 36th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration event, a part of UB's Distinguished Speakers Series, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in Kleinhans Music Hall.
  • Quiet Carpets and Fiberglass Formation: UB Students Solve Engineering Problems to Win Knovel University Challenge
    2/14/12
    Two University at Buffalo students know all about why your footfalls echo more loudly on bare floors than on those that are carpeted. They also know the melting point of nylon 6, the density of high-volume fly ash concrete, and the uses for methyl ethyl ketone peroxide. Correct answers to questions about these topics (and more like them) helped the two UB students place very highly in the 2011 Knovel University Challenge.
  • To Train a Smart Grid Workforce, UB and Buffalo State Pool Resources
    2/14/12
    A new joint effort by the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State College will improve green jobs training for undergraduate and graduate students at both institutions as part of a federally funded program to transform the electrical grid into a "smart grid."
  • UB Gender Institute's 16th Annual Film Festival Begins Feb. 16
    2/13/12
    "Pink Ribbons Inc.," a film critiquing the corporate politics of breast cancer philanthropy, and the award-winning documentary "Granito: How to Nail a Dictator" are among the films to be featured as part of the 16th International Film Festival, presented by the University at Buffalo Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender.
  • UB's Anti-Bullying Center Presents Program in Support of Gay and Transgendered Youth
    2/13/12
    The University at Buffalo's Jean M. Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse and School Violence will sponsor a colloquium in support of gay and transgendered youth at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in 120 Clemens Hall on UB's North Campus.
  • UB President Satish K. Tripathi Congratulates Warde Manuel
    2/13/12
    In a message to the campus community, University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi today offered his congratulations and best wishes to UB Vice President and Director of Athletics Warde J. Manuel, who has accepted the athletics director position at the University of Connecticut.
  • Explosive Evolutionary Innovation May Not Always Follow Mass Extinctions, Study of Ancient Zooplankton Finds
    2/13/12
    Following one of Earth's five greatest mass extinctions, tiny marine organisms called graptoloids did not begin to rapidly develop new physical traits until about 2 million years after competing species became extinct. This discovery, based on new research, challenges the widely held assumption that a period of explosive evolution quickly follows for survivors of mass extinctions.
  • Can i(Pod) Take Your Order? UB Grad and Former Student Launch Technology Start-Up to Market Restaurant App
    2/10/12
    Paper be damned. Two former servers from Western New York are spinning their experience waiting tables into a technology start-up that offers a digital solution for managing food and drink orders. Refulgent Software, based in the University at Buffalo's Technology Incubator, produces and markets "Ambur," an iPod and iPad app that serves as a restaurant point-of-service system.
  • UB's Beth Tauke Takes Top Housing Industry Prize for Home for Baby Boomers
    2/10/12
    A concept home designed with the help of Beth Tauke, associate professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has received a coveted 2012 Best of 50+ Housing Award from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Housing Council for a home that meets the physical needs and lifestyle of baby boomers.