News Releases

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

  • UB School of Management Alumni Association Names New Officers, Directors
    2/11/11
    Officers for the 2011 term have been elected for the University at Buffalo School of Management Alumni Association, in addition to two new directors elected to three-year terms.
  • Bruce A. Holm, UB Senior Vice Provost and Co-Developer of Life-Saving Drug for Infants, Dies at Age 52
    2/10/11
    Bruce A. Holm, PhD, a key figure in the University at Buffalo's efforts to develop high-technology and life-sciences research in the region, and an internationally known biomedical researcher and successful entrepreneur, died on Feb. 9 of kidney cancer. A resident of Rochester, he was 52.
  • New Study to Use Smart Phones to Track Air Pollution Exposure
    2/8/11
    University at Buffalo researchers are creating a new and unusual "app" for the smart phone: tracking air pollution.
  • UB Department of Theatre and Dance to Present A Little Night Music
    2/8/11
    The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will present A Little Night Music from Wednesday, March 2, through Sunday, March 6, in the Black Box Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus. Performance times are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. The musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, will be presented in a production with newly designed and executed sets, lights and costumes.
  • $2 million in Stimulus Funding Supports Purchase of Two Mass Spectrometers for Health and Environmental Research
    2/8/11
    Two new, high-powered mass spectrometers worth a total of more than $2 million will enable University at Buffalo scientists to conduct a variety of health and environmental studies without outsourcing lab work to institutions outside of Western New York.
  • Nigeria's National Universities Commission Partners with UB's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics to Build Nanomedicine Research Capacity
    2/8/11
    The National Universities Commission of Nigeria has selected the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics as its partner to form the Nigerian American Nanomedicine Organization, which will establish Joint Research Centers in Nigeria and at ILPB.
  • Where Did Flowers Come From?
    2/7/11
    The University at Buffalo is a key partner in a $7.3 million, multi-institution collaboration to explore the origins of all flowers by sequencing the genome of Amborella, a unique species that one researcher has nicknamed the "platypus of flowering plants."
  • Teens Tout Financial Knowledge in "Money Bee"
    2/4/11
    The University at Buffalo School of Management and M&T Bank will host more than 100 students from 20 public, private and charter schools in the fourth annual "MoneySKILL Mania," a financial literacy competition for high school students.
  • Media Advisory: Family That Is Raising Funds for Pediatric Liver Disease Research Will Tour UB Pediatric Gastroenterology Lab
    2/4/11
    A Western New York family whose lives were forever changed when their son was diagnosed with pediatric liver disease has raised $150,000 to support research into the disease by University at Buffalo pediatric gastroenterologists Susan S. Baker, MD, and Robert D. Baker, MD.
  • For the U.S., Cautious Optimism May Be Appropriate Response to Egyptian Revolt
    2/4/11
    David A. Westbrook, University at Buffalo Law School professor and recognized voice on the global political economy, says that although there is a great deal of understandable anxiety that current events in the Middle East may end tragically, "Cautious optimism may be an appropriate response here."