News Releases

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

  • Depressed Fathers Pass Depression to Offspring but the Cause is Mostly Behavioral, Not Genetic, or Epigenetic, Study Says
    11/16/11
    One of the first studies to examine, in animals, how depression in fathers may impact their offspring will be presented by the study's researchers from the University at Buffalo and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine at 10 a.m. on Nov. 16 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
  • UB Once Again Among Top 20 U.S. Campuses in International Enrollment
    11/16/11
    The University at Buffalo is once again among the top 20 U.S. campuses with the largest enrollment of international students, according to data published by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
  • Popular Upstate New York Investor Forums to Host Joint Event in Buffalo Niagara in 2012
    11/16/11
    Two annual investor forums in Upstate New York will partner in 2012 to host a single event: A two-day forum in Buffalo that will connect early-stage, high-tech companies with angel investors and venture capitalists.
  • Media Advisory: Architects and Builders of Celebrated Green Buildings to Headline at Business of Energy Seminar
    11/16/11
    Designers of the world's first LEED-certified winery, a regional gem, will be among presenters at a conference on sustainable buildings that the University at Buffalo's Directed Energy program is hosting on Nov. 17.
  • Through New Historical Society Exhibit, an Advocate for Women in Architecture Celebrates America's First Professional Female Architect
    11/15/11
    In 1881, Buffalo's Louise Blanchard Bethune became the first woman in America to open her own architectural office. Her career was filled with milestones for the architectural profession: She went on to design buildings including Buffalo's landmark Lafayette Hotel, and became, in 1889, the first woman to be admitted to the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
  • Panel to Discuss Legislative Process as Part of UB's Black Lawmakers' Day
    11/15/11
    The University at Buffalo's Black Law Student Association will welcome a panel of local lawmakers to its annual Black Lawmakers' Day dinner at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, in 106 O'Brian Hall on UB's North Campus.
  • 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.