News Releases

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

  • Digital Divide Widens, Research Finds
    1/19/12
    The "digital divide" -- the gap in Internet access and usage due to socioeconomic factors -- is increasing, according to research published in the Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
  • SOPA's Vague Language Could Lead to Wide Restrictions on Information Available on the Internet, UB Expert Says
    1/18/12
    American courts are significantly expanding the legal rights and privileges celebrities can command over others using their names or likenesses. And a University at Buffalo Law School professor is questioning whether these courts have gone too far.
  • Family Medicine, Millard Fillmore College Among UB Gateway's New Tenants
    1/18/12
    The University at Buffalo's downtown campus is growing. By early February, nearly 100 UB employees who had been based at various sites will have moved into new digs at the UB Gateway (the former M. Wile building) at Goodell Street. The historic structure is undergoing a $4 million renovation.
  • Researcher Looks at Changing Indigenous Governments in the U.S.
    1/18/12
    In "A New Way Forward: Native Nations, Nonprofitization, Community Land Trusts, and the Indigenous Shadow State," published in the current issue of Nonprofit Policy Forum, University at Buffalo graduate student Samuel W. Rose considers what Native American governance bodies should do now that the political and legal avenues that served their interests well for years no longer work.
  • UB Law Student Team Wins New York Redistricting Competition
    1/18/12
    A team of students from the University at Buffalo Law School has been named a winner of the 2012 New York Redistricting Project, a national competition that challenged student teams to draw new congressional, state senate and state assembly district maps.
  • UB, BGH Cardiologist Leads Team in WNY's First Successful Aortic Valve Implant Surgeries
    1/17/12
    Vijay S. Iyer, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and TAVR program director at Buffalo General Hospital, has successfully led a team of highly trained physicians to implant aortic valves in two patients last week. Iyer, a board-certified interventional cardiologist, is available to speak with media today about this new procedure.
  • UB Offers 1,500 Free Tickets for Distinguished Speakers Series Lecture with Soledad O'Brien
    1/13/12
    The University at Buffalo is offering free tickets to local community and religious organizations and churches and to Western New York high schools to attend UB's 36th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration event featuring Soledad O'Brien, CNN anchor, special correspondent and author.
  • New Bioanalytical Instrumentation Updates International Pharmacology Training Lab
    1/12/12
    Chiedza Maponga '88, director of the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) pharmacy program, knows that he alone can't treat the hundreds of thousands of patients with HIV in his native country. But he believes he can do it with help. This year, help arrived in the form of four graduate students who traveled with Maponga from Zimbabwe to the University at Buffalo to train in a collaborative program that prepares them to treat HIV/AIDS patients.
  • Culture Weighs Heavily on Chinese Caregivers over Nursing Home Placement, Study Finds
    1/12/12
    Chinese families must confront very specific cultural hurdles when placing a relative with dementia in a nursing home, according to a recently published UB study.
  • The Pink Floyd Experience Is Coming to the UB Center for the Arts
    1/12/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Pink Floyd Experience on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.