News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Team's Pharmacy Business Plan Locks Them in as Finalists in National Competition
    7/15/11
    Three students in the University at Buffalo's PharmD/MBA combined degree program and their advisor have been chosen to be among three finalist teams to compete live at the 2011 National Community Pharmacist Association's (NCPA) annual convention.
  • Fast-Shrinking Greenland Glacier Experienced Rapid Growth During Cooler Times
    7/14/11
    Large, marine-calving glaciers have the ability not only to shrink rapidly in response to global warming, but to grow at a remarkable pace during periods of global cooling, according to University at Buffalo geologists working in Greenland.
  • Book Celebrates Splendid Heritage Left by Frederick Law Olmsted in Western New York
    7/14/11
    "Olmsted in Buffalo and Niagara," the first history and guidebook written about the visionary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and the remarkable park systems he designed in Western New York at the end of the 19th century, has been published by The Urban Design Project, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo.
  • Narrowest Bridges of Gold Are Also the Strongest, Study Finds
    7/13/11
    At an atomic scale, the tiniest bridge of gold -- that made of a single atom -- is actually the strongest, according to new research by engineers at the University at Buffalo's Laboratory for Quantum Devices.
  • UB Graduate School of Education Expands Online Programs
    7/13/11
    The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) will mark the 10th anniversary of its innovative online programs by doubling the number of full-degree or certificate programs it offers.
  • UB Architects Exhibit Low-cost, Low-tech Design Solutions at International Festival
    7/13/11
    Two University at Buffalo architects presented a unique solution to the uncomfortably chilly temperatures of an old stone building in England as part of the sixth annual International Architecture Festival, Eme3, held July 1-3 in Barcelona.