News Releases

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

  • UB Humanities Institute Announces 2011-12 Faculty Fellows
    5/19/11
    The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, which promotes innovative cross-disciplinary research, teaching and community programs in the humanities, has announced recipients of its 2011-12 Faculty Fellowships.
  • Standardized Concussion-Assessment Gets Hockey Players Healthily Back on the Ice
    5/19/11
    As the chase for the 2011 Stanley Cup heads to the finish, several players are off the ice suffering from concussion, an injury all too common in this contact sport. Deciding if a player is ready to return to the ice has been left primarily to each team's physician, with no standardized across-the-sport method to assess when the time is right. Work by specialists at the University at Buffalo Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department's concussion clinic may change that scenario.
  • Cellino and Barnes Conference Center to be Dedicated at UB Law School
    5/19/11
    Two well-known names in the Buffalo legal community will find a permanent home in the University at Buffalo Law School when the school's Cellino and Barnes Conference Center is dedicated on May 26.
  • Media Advisory: International E-Poetry Festival at UB to Feature Eclectic Visual and Sound Performances
    5/18/11
    The University at Buffalo will host the 2011 International E-Poetry Festival May 17-21, featuring two evening performances that offer unique opportunities to highlight the eclectic and avant-garde literary/musical/ performance art scene for which Buffalo is famous.
  • UB's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Receives $55,800 Grant
    5/18/11
    The University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) has received a grant of $55,800 from the Allstate Foundation for its Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs program.
  • NSF e-Design Center Accepts UB As Full University Research Partner in Prestigious National Coalition
    5/18/11
    The National Science Foundation's e-Design Center has accepted the University at Buffalo as a full university member research site in its prestigious Industry-University Collaborative Research Center for e-Design.
  • UB Management Students Receive Commencement Awards
    5/17/11
    Fifteen graduates of the University at Buffalo School of Management received awards during the school's commencement ceremonies on May 13.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Hold 165th Commencement on Sunday, May 15
    5/13/11
    More than 5,500 students are candidates to receive degrees during the University at Buffalo's 165th general commencement ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 15, in Alumni Arena on the UB North Campus.
  • Surgeon-Engineer Team Debuts Procedure-Specific Modules for Robot-Assisted Surgery
    5/12/11
    Two life-sciences entrepreneurs are launching the first procedure-specific software modules for robot-assisted surgery. Khurshid A. Guru, MD, director of robotic surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), and Thenkurussi "Kesh" Kesavadas, PhD, director of the Virtual Reality Lab and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo (UB), created Hands-on Surgical Training (HoST) to harness the didactic potential of their proprietary Robotic Surgical Simulator, or RoSS.
  • American Cancer Society Funds UB Program to Help Women Cope with Breast Cancer
    5/12/11
    The breast cancer pretreatment period -- the time during which a woman is diagnosed, meets with physicians and awaits initial treatment -- can be extremely distressing, lonely and confusing. Research demonstrates that approximately one-third of women diagnosed with breast cancer will develop symptoms such as depression and post-traumatic stress at some point in the course of their illness. These symptoms may continue for up to 20 years after diagnosis.