News Releases

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

  • Anti-Bullying Center Offers Grounded Advice Amid the Outrage and Confusion
    11/7/11
    Although the passion and widespread sympathy for bullying victims is natural and admirable, those who want to stop bullying abuse need to act in ways that reflect good science and proven research if they want to contribute to a culture that does not condone this behavior, according to the director of the University at Buffalo's anti-bullying center. See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5nUZOUbFHk
  • Exenatide (Byetta) Has Rapid, Powerful Anti-inflammatory Effect, UB Study Shows
    11/2/11
    Exenatide, a drug commonly prescribed to help patients with type 2 diabetes improve blood sugar control, also has a powerful and rapid anti-inflammatory effect, a University at Buffalo study has shown. The study of the drug, marketed under the trade name Byetta, was published recently in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
  • UB's Smyth to Give Keynote Speech at Social Workers Conference
    11/2/11
    Nancy J. Smyth, dean of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, will give the keynote speech at the annual New York State Social Workers Association Conference Nov. 3-5 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo.
  • Treatment Wall at Western New York Nuclear Site Receives 2011 Ground Water Remediation Award
    11/1/11
    AMEC Geomatrix of Amherst, N.Y., has received the National Ground Water Association's 2011 Ground Water Remediation Award for an innovative nuclear waste cleanup project that the company completed with University at Buffalo researchers.
  • Educational Opportunity Center Launches New Website
    11/1/11
    The University at Buffalo Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) will hold a new website launch ceremony from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the sixth-floor auditorium of its facility at 465 Washington St. in downtown Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: UB Goblins Going Door-to-Door for "Trick or Eat"
    10/31/11
    If you live in the neighborhoods around the University at Buffalo's North Campus, you may be hearing shouts of "Trick or Eat" on Halloween. But these are not your typical trick-or-treaters looking for candy. Underneath the costume will be a UB student asking for a donation of non-perishable food.
  • Rethinking Equilibrium: In Nature, Large Energy Fluctuations May Rile Even "Relaxed" Systems
    10/31/11
    An international research team led by the University at Buffalo has shown that large energy fluctuations can rile even a "relaxed" system, raising questions about how energy might travel through structures ranging from the ocean to DNA. The research appeared online Oct. 21 in Physical Review E.
  • Ostrov Brings Research-based Advice on Bullying to Preschoolers and Big Bird
    10/31/11
    University at Buffalo Associate Professor of Psychology Jamie M. Ostrov's work on understanding the development of bullying behavior in pre-school children has won him some influential admirers and boosters: Big Bird and his furry friends.
  • UB Opens Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Center, a First for WNY
    10/31/11
    Families in Western New York and southern Ontario who are affected by Alzheimer's disease and related disorders now have a comprehensive new resource: the University at Buffalo's Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Center, the first in the region.
  • UB Student Wins Competitive SUNY Award
    10/31/11
    University at Buffalo senior Kristina Blank -- described by her university advisers as "an example of what we hope a UB student should and could be" -- has won the highly selective State University of New York Association of Council Members and College Trustees Excellence and Student Initiative Scholarship.