News Releases

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

  • UB's Bruneau Wins 2012 T.R. Higgins Award from the American Institute of Steel Construction
    2/10/12
    Michel Bruneau, PhD, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering in the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is the 2012 recipient of the prestigious American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award.
  • What's Causing "Conversion Disorder" in LeRoy?
    2/9/12
    In the following Q&A, David G. Lichter, MD, professor of neurology in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and an expert in movement disorders, including Tourette's Syndrome and other tic disorders, discusses the emergence of conversion disorder in high school girls in LeRoy, New York and what might be causing it. He has been interviewed on the topic by numerous local and national media.
  • UB Nursing Gets Green Light for Online RN-BS Program
    2/9/12
    The University at Buffalo School of Nursing has received approval by the State Education Department and the State University of New York to reinstate its 12-month online RN-BS program.
  • Parkinson's Disease: Study of Live Human Neurons Reveals the Disease's Genetic Origins, New Drug Targets
    2/7/12
    Parkinson's disease researchers at the University at Buffalo have discovered how mutations in the parkin gene cause the disease, which afflicts at least 500,000 Americans and for which there is no cure.
  • UB Ranked Among 'Best Values for 2012' By Princeton Review
    2/7/12
    The University at Buffalo is among the nation's top 75 "best value" public colleges and universities, according to The Princeton Review's annual national survey of American colleges and universities.
  • MLK Speech in Buffalo 45 Years Ago is a Legacy for UB's Annual Commemoration Lecture
    2/6/12
    On Feb. 16, popular author and broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien will deliver the University at Buffalo's 36th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Lecture at Buffalo's Kleinhans Music Hall. Her talk comes 45 years after King himself addressed an audience at Kleinhans at the invitation of the UB Graduate Student Association (GSA).
  • University at Buffalo School of Management to Launch New EMBA Format
    2/6/12
    Organizational leaders and senior managers will now find it more convenient to earn an Executive MBA, thanks to a new format at the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Intensive Summer Program Opens the World of Law to Promising Minority Students
    2/3/12
    About two dozen college students will spend four weeks on the University at Buffalo campus this summer to learn about the law and legal studies, develop their writing and test-taking skills, and imagine the possibilities of life as an attorney.
  • Back from the Gulf Coast, Students Reflect on Experience Volunteering to Help Restore Wetlands
    2/3/12
    Back from a weeklong service learning trip to Louisiana, three University at Buffalo undergraduates took time to reflect on their experiences on the Gulf Coast.
  • Waste Infrastructure and the Architecture of Public Life
    2/3/12
    Garbage is not a typical topic of discussion for an architecture lecture, but in Erie and Niagara Counties alone we produce about 17.5 million pounds of waste a year. We're not staring it in the face every day, so where does it go?