News Releases

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

  • Media Advisory: Greiner Residence Hall to Be Dedicated
    8/19/11
    The University at Buffalo will dedicate Greiner Hall, a new state-of-the-art residence hall reserved for sophomores, at an on-site ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 19.
  • UB Awards Five 2011-12 Civic Engagement Research Fellowships
    8/19/11
    The UB 2020 Civic Engagement and Public Policy strategic initiative has awarded five new Civic Engagement Research Fellowships for 2011-12.
  • Medical Errors' Tragic Toll
    8/18/11
    When Mary Brennan-Taylor lost her mother to a series of preventable medical errors, she wasn't interested in suing the hospital where the mistakes had been made. "I wasn't interested in a lawsuit because that wouldn't help anyone," she says, "I was interested in culture change." Now, Brennan-Taylor is bringing that culture change directly to students at the University at Buffalo.
  • Lafferty Elected President of UB Alumni Association
    8/18/11
    Tim Lafferty of East Aurora, N.Y., has been elected to serve a two-year term as president of the UB Alumni Association.
  • Media Advisory: Greiner Residence Hall to Be Dedicated
    8/18/11
    The University at Buffalo will dedicate Greiner Hall, a new state-of-the-art residence hall reserved for sophomores, at an on-site ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 19.
  • Teens Learn about Cybersecurity through UB Program
    8/18/11
    More than 1,100 students and teachers took part in interactive workshops introducing them to the growing and complex field of cybersecurity through programs conducted this past year by the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • UB to Host WNY Science and Technology Forum
    8/17/11
    The hydraulic fracturing of New York's shale deposits to access natural gas, the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster and current trends in drug abuse are just a few of the topics that will be tackled at the 2011-12 Western New York Science and Technology Forum, "Horizons of the Sciences," for Western New York teachers.
  • Media Advisory: High School Students Mix Driving and Cell Phones In Engineering Simulation at UB
    8/17/11
    Area high school students will be instructed to talk or text on their cell phones when they take the wheel of the driving simulator at the UB/NYSCEDII 2011 Cyber Engineering Workshop for Young Women at the University at Buffalo on Aug. 18 at 10 a.m. in 106 Furnas Hall on the UB North Campus. Media are invited to attend.
  • New Research on Famous Siamese Twins Demonstrates How the Paradox of American Identity Played Out in the Bodies of Chang and Eng
    8/16/11
    Cultural scholar Cynthia Wu has spent years studying Chang and Eng Bunker, a pair of Asian-born, co-joined, entrepreneurial, self-promoting "human marvels." "The Bunker twins," she says, "have served for more than 100 years as metaphors for the paradox that while 'individualism' is what makes Americans stand apart from Europeans, unity is equally valued."
  • Forbes Again Ranks UB School of Management as a "Best Business School"
    8/16/11
    Forbes magazine has once again ranked the University at Buffalo School of Management as one of the best business schools in the world based on the return on investment it provides MBA graduates.