News Releases

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

  • President Tripathi Named Co-chair of WNY Regional Economic Development Council
    7/26/11
    University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi has been named a regional co-chair of the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, one of 10 region-based councils charged with allocating economic development funds within their regions to stimulate economic development and speed the creation of jobs.
  • Beth Church Has True Grit, and a Pat Tillman Scholarship
    7/25/11
    No one should underestimate Beth Church's determination.
  • UB Neurosurgery Faculty Offer Brain Endoscopy Course
    7/21/11
    Neurosurgical residents, fellows and attending neurosurgeons interested in minimally invasive endoscopic surgery of the brain will gather in Buffalo July 29-30 at the 5th Annual Brain Endoscopy Course -- a continuing medical education-accredited course sponsored by the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB's TCIE Announces Business Improvement Course Lineup
    7/20/11
    The University at Buffalo's TCIE will offer business improvement workshops and certification courses this summer and fall for professionals striving to save money and boost efficiency in their organizations.
  • New UB Research Outlines Mathematical Framework That Could Help Convert "Junk" Energy Into Useful Power
    7/20/11
    A University at Buffalo-led research team has developed a mathematical framework that could one day form the basis of technologies that turn road vibrations, airport runway noise and other "junk" energy into useful power.
  • Media Advisory: What's Grad School Really Like? Students Play "Monopoly" to Find Out
    7/20/11
    There's more to grad school than just filling out applications and taking entrance exams, as 16 students participating in a University at Buffalo summer program are about to discover. On July 21 at 1:15 p.m., they will be playing "Grad School Monopoly," a game designed to convey to them the realities about grad school and to dispel some of the myths. It takes place in Room 125 in the Biomedical Education Building on the UB South Campus.
  • From Healing to Hospice: UB Social Work Researcher Adding to the Shift Toward a Good and Compassionate Death
    7/19/11
    University at Buffalo School of Social Work Professor Deborah P. Waldrop has seen people die. Too often, their lives have ended in pain and despair, spending their final days in an alienating institutional environment, just another patient in an impersonal progression that leads to what she calls "reciprocal suffering" for families who also watch their loved ones die.
  • To Help Doctors and Patients, UB Researchers Are Developing a "Vocabulary of Pain"
    7/18/11
    A University at Buffalo psychiatrist is attempting to help patients suffering from chronic pain and their doctors by drawing on ontology, the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of being or existence. The goals of his work are described in a video interview. He will present a tutorial on his research at the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, sponsored by UB, July 26-30 in Buffalo.
  • Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dots Degrade in Soil, Releasing Their Toxic Guts, Study Finds
    7/18/11
    Quantum dots made from cadmium and selenium degrade in soil, unleashing toxic cadmium and selenium ions into their surroundings, a University at Buffalo study has found.
  • Erik Seeman Named Director of UB Humanities Institute
    7/15/11
    Erik R. Seeman, PhD, professor of history at the University at Buffalo and a noted historian of the Americas, has been named director of the UB College of Arts and Sciences' Humanities Institute, an association that has developed an international reputation for innovative cross-disciplinary research, teaching and community programs in the humanities.