News Releases

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

  • UB Executive MBA Ranked in Bloomberg Businessweek
    11/15/11
    Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the University at Buffalo School of Management as one of the nation's best business schools in its biennial ranking of Executive MBA (EMBA) programs.
  • Giving Elderly Immigrants Easy Access to Medicaid is in Everyone's Best Interest
    11/15/11
    With health care, the national deficit and immigration all serving as current hot-button political issues, one University at Buffalo professor has found a viable way to both save money and provide health care for elderly immigrants.
  • Niacin Does Not Reduce Heart Attack, Stroke Risk in Stable, Cardiovascular Patients Whose Cholesterol is Well-Controlled to Treatment Guidelines
    11/15/11
    At an 8 a.m. EST press conference today at the American Heart Association meeting, UB professor of medicine William E. Boden, MD, discusses the AIM-HIGH clinical trial, which found that niacin provides no incremental benefit to patients with atherosclerotic heart disease, whose levels of LDL cholesterol and non-HDL (which contributes to plaque in the arteries) were very well-controlled.
  • New Heart Cells Increase by 30 Percent After Stem Cell Infusion, UB Research Shows
    11/15/11
    Healthy, new heart cells have been generated by animals with chronic ischemic heart disease after receiving stem cells derived from cardiac biopsies or "cardiospheres," according to research conducted at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The research is being presented today (Nov. 15) at the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association in Orlando.
  • WNED Documentary to Feature UB, Tripathi
    11/14/11
    The University at Buffalo will take center stage in "UB: Local Impact, Global Reach," a 30-minute documentary co-produced by WNED and the university that will air on WNED-TV at 9:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14.
  • Linda Eder to Perform Holiday Concert at UB
    11/14/11
    The Center for the Arts at University at Buffalo will welcome Linda Eder on Friday, Dec. 16, at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus. The concert is sponsored in part by Creekside Dentistry.
  • Rick Perry's Tip-of-the-Tongue Gaffe -- What's It All About?
    11/14/11
    Rick Perry's failure to retrieve the name of one of the federal agencies he would abolish if elected president, namely the Department of Energy, was most likely an example of a very common phenomenon called "Tip of the Tongue" phenomenon or "TOT," says a University at Buffalo psycholinguist.
  • Homes for 'Wounded Warriors' Designed with Help of UB Architect
    11/11/11
    Architect Danise Levine of the University at Buffalo has completed design work with the Wounded Warrior Home Project, which will finish construction on two houses for wounded veterans today (Nov. 11) in Fort Belvoir, Va., that fit the unique physical and emotional needs of the soldiers who will move in. The dwellings are universally designed to be accessible to people of diverse abilities and ages.
  • Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Honored
    11/11/11
    Maria Pascucci, president and founder of Campus Calm, has been named "Protege of the Year" by the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs (MWEE) program.
  • Media Advisory: UB Students to Conduct Nov. 12 Census Blitz of Perry Street, First Ward Neighborhoods
    11/11/11
    University at Buffalo undergraduates will conduct a one-day house-to-house survey of the Commodore Perry neighborhood and part of the Old First Ward on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.