News Releases

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

  • Competition Cultivates High School Entrepreneurs
    4/13/11
    Six students from area high schools won first place in an entrepreneurship competition on April 2 for their winning business proposal, an online gaming lounge.
  • Higher CCSVI Prevalence Confirmed in MS, but Meaning of Findings Remains Unclear
    4/13/11
    A just released study on the relationship between multiple sclerosis (MS) and chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), a narrowing of the extracranial veins that restricts the normal outflow of blood from the brain, found that CCSVI may be a result of MS, not a cause.
  • Another Universe Tugging On Ours? Maybe Not, UB Researchers Say
    4/13/11
    A new study from the University at Buffalo contradicts the dark flow theory, showing that exploding stars in different parts of the universe do not appear to be moving in sync. Working with data on 557 such stars, called supernovae, UB scientists deduced that while the supernovae closest to Earth all shared a common motion in one direction, supernovae further out were heading somewhere else. An article announcing the research results will appear in a forthcoming edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.
  • Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience Coming to UB May 9
    4/13/11
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience on Monday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
  • Media Advisory: UB Law Student to Testify at Hearing of Erie County Advisory Committee on Reapportionment
    4/13/11
    A University at Buffalo Law School student will testify at a public hearing of the Erie County Advisory Committee on Reapportionment on federal and state constitutional and statutory requirements of redistricting. The hearing is being held April 13 from 5 - 7:30 p.m. on the ECC North Campus, 6205 Main St., Williamsville, in Kittinger Hall, K Building Lecture Hall, Room 100
  • Rainbow-Trapping Scientist Now Strives to Slow Light Waves Even Further
    4/12/11
    An electrical engineer at the University at Buffalo, who previously demonstrated experimentally the "rainbow trapping effect" -- a phenomenon that could boost optical data storage and communications -- is now working to capture all the colors of the rainbow.
  • UB's Gottdiener Will Present Keynote at International Conference on Urban Semiotics
    4/12/11
    Internationally known semiotician Mark Gottdiener, PhD, of Buffalo, professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo, will be the keynote speaker at the International Conference on semiotics, "Urban Semiotics: City as a Cultural-Historical Phenomenon" to be held June 3-5 at the Institute of the Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia.
  • University at Buffalo Law School to Hold 'Students of Color' Dinner April 21
    4/12/11
    The University at Buffalo Law School will honor its diversity and its graduates' accomplishments at this year's Law School Students of Color Dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 21, in the Buffalo Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Hwy., Amherst.
  • Fans Can View Falcon Chicks Even As they Grow This Spring
    4/12/11
    Viewers who log onto the University at Buffalo's falconcam to watch BB and Yankee, UB's resident peregrine falcon mom and dad, will see more of the couple's falcon chicks once they hatch and become mobile, thanks to the installation this spring of a second camera. Watch the live streaming video from both cameras at http://ubfalcon.buffalo.edu/
  • UB School of Management Maintains AACSB International Accreditation
    4/12/11
    The University at Buffalo School of Management and all of its undergraduate, master's and doctoral business programs have maintained their accreditation by AACSB International-The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.