News Releases

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

  • UB Alert: Fronczak Hall being evacuated due to natural gas smell
    2/22/11
    UB Police are evacuating Fronczak Hall on the North Campus because of a strong smell of natural gas. Stay away until further notice. Updates will be provided as needed at www.emergency.buffalo.edu.
  • Film Program Originally Set for Smithsonian Screening Now Will Be Seen Only in Buffalo
    2/21/11
    On Feb. 28, the University at Buffalo will present "Portraiture in Queer Experimental Cinema," a program of short films originally developed as part of the scholarly symposium around the groundbreaking Smithsonian Institution exhibition "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture."
  • Study Shows Tobacco Retail Proximity to Schools
    2/21/11
    For years the tobacco industry has argued that efforts to ban tobacco advertising near schools would constitute a total ban on tobacco advertising in urban areas. But public health researchers at the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have presented research that shows this is not the case in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, N.Y.
  • A Nano-Solution to Global Water Problem: Nanomembranes Could Filter Bacteria
    2/21/11
    New nanomaterials research from the University at Buffalo could lead to new solutions for an age-old public health problem: how to separate bacteria from drinking water.
  • Tap Dance Master Savion Glover to Present New Program -- SoLo in TiME
    2/21/11
    The Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo will present Savion Glover on Thursday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
  • Mathematician Receives Sloan Fellowship
    2/17/11
    University at Buffalo mathematician Xiaoqing Li has received a Sloan Research Fellowship, a prestigious award that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation presents annually to early-career scientists and scholars in recognition of their achievement and potential to contribute to their fields.
  • What do New Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines Mean for Patients? Renowned UB Researcher and Co-Author Anne B. Curtis Explains
    2/17/11
    Anne B. Curtis, MD, Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair of the University at Buffalo Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is a key contributor to the new guidelines for physicians, published last month, that incorporate the latest research on the best way to treat patients with atrial fibrillation. In the Q&A below, Curtis explains how the guidelines will affect the way physicians treat patients with atrial fibrillation.
  • Career Fairs Go Global, Virtual, Supporting UB's International Focus and Bringing Recruitment to the Cutting Edge
    2/16/11
    A pair of engineering career fairs in March will mark important milestones for the University at Buffalo: Both events have a global focus, a first for UB career fairs, and one will take place completely online -- another first.
  • Improving Early Learning in Math, Science and Literacy is Goal of New Grants Awarded to UB Professors Clements and Sarama
    2/14/11
    For University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education professors Doug H. Clements and Julie Sarama, the list of federal grants that allow the husband-and-wife research team to continue their nationally distinguished work on teaching math to hard-to-reach pre-kindergarten children keeps growing.
  • Double Engineering Major is a Double Threat on the Court and in the Classroom
    2/14/11
    There's never been a dull University at Buffalo moment for Kourtney Brown. Standing 6-feet-tall, Brown is a star athlete on the women's basketball team, as her recent record-breaking 35-point scoring night against Miami of Ohio shows.