News Releases

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

  • Media Advisory: Ineffably Urban: Artists and Creative Thinkers Discuss Image and Identity of Buffalo in Art and Architecture
    4/28/11
    How do artists, architects, activists, and scholars creatively engage with Buffalo and other cities in similar situations? What is the image, the identity they create for those cities? Artists and creative thinkers will address these questions on April 30 at Ineffably Urban, a daylong symposium organized at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center by the University at Buffalo.
  • Two-day UB Law School Conference Explores European Union's Continuing Challenges
    4/27/11
    The ongoing challenge of uniting 27 nations, both politically and socially, into a cohesive European Union is the subject of a major interdisciplinary conference April 28-29 at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo Law School.
  • Arts in Healthcare Clinical Practice Intensive to be Held Aug. 1-12
    4/27/11
    The University at Buffalo's Center for the Arts and the University of Florida Center for the Arts in Healthcare, Research & Education announce the fourth annual Arts in Healthcare Clinical Practice Intensive, to be held Aug. 1-12 in the UB Center for the Arts.
  • Waterpipe Smoking is Becoming 'Epidemic' Among Young People, Study Concludes
    4/27/11
    Students in schools and universities in the U.S. and around the world are using waterpipes to smoke tobacco at "alarmingly high" rates, according to a study published this month by University at Buffalo researchers.
  • Media Advisory: Pioneering Biologist J. Craig Venter to Present Distinguished Speakers Lecture at UB
    4/27/11
    Pioneering biologist J. Craig Venter will present the latest installment of the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series with a lecture at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, in Alumni Arena on UB's North Campus.
  • Media Study Students Design Awesome, Original, Digital, Animated -- Fresh Video Games You (Can) Play
    4/27/11
    The public is invited to come on down and play new video games designed and produced by students in the University at Buffalo Department of Media Study, from 6-9 p.m. May 2 in 242 and 278 Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
  • Exhibition of Paintings by Will Harris at Anderson Gallery May 14 to Aug. 7
    4/26/11
    The University at Buffalo will present an exhibition of paintings by Willard "Will" Russell Harris (1933-2008), a 30-year faculty member of the UB Department of Art, May 14 to Aug. 7 in the Anderson Gallery, One Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: Pioneering Biologist J. Craig Venter to Present Distinguished Speakers Lecture at UB
    4/26/11
    Pioneering biologist J. Craig Venter will present the latest installment of the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series with a lecture at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, in Alumni Arena on UB's North Campus.
  • Batta Named Acting Dean of UB Engineering
    4/25/11
    Rajan Batta, associate dean for graduate studies in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been named acting dean of the school by Harvey G. Stenger Jr., interim provost and vice president for academic affairs.
  • American Basic Economic Security Much Different than 'Poverty Line,' UB Researcher Says
    4/22/11
    A University at Buffalo School of Social Work professor is helping redefine the country's definition of being poor with research that shows the dramatic difference between achieving "basic economic security" and the federal government's "poverty line."