News Releases

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

  • Media Advisory: Poverty workshop to show UB medical students the challenges of living in poverty
    12/14/10
    Students from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will learn about the day-to-day challenges facing the poor as part of a poverty simulation workshop to be held from 1-5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 15, in 105 Harriman Hall on the UB South Campus.
  • UB Law School Only New York State Law School to Raise Its Bar Pass Rate
    12/14/10
    The University at Buffalo Law School is the only law school in the state to register a higher pass rate among first-time candidates taking the July bar exam, advancing its pass rate to 83 percent, 2 percent higher than the previous year.
  • Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Honored
    12/14/10
    Felecia Doctor has been named "Protege of the Year" by the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program, a joint venture by the University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and the UB Center for Urban Studies.
  • Soto-Crespo Receives Honorable Mention for Major MLA Prize
    12/13/10
    Ricardo Ortiz of Georgetown University calls Ramon Soto-Crespo's work "some of the best …being done now in U.S. Latino literary criticism." The Modern Language Association agrees. It will award Soto-Crespo, PhD, of Buffalo, associate professor of American studies and director of Latina/Latino Studies at the University at Buffalo, one of its major distinctions: an honorable mention for the MLA's Eighth Annual Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies.
  • As Geography Chair, Bagchi-Sen Promotes an 'Entrepreneurial' Field
    12/10/10
    Now that the term "interdisciplinary" is practically a prerequisite for federal research funds, geographers are finding that their expertise is a sought-after commodity. That's because geography just might be the most interdisciplinary field in the academic world, according to Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, chair of the Department of Geography in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Anderson Gallery Exhibition to Document Buffalo's Waterfront Grain Elevators
    12/10/10
    The University at Buffalo's Anderson Gallery will present the exhibition "American Chartres: Buffalo's Waterfront Elevators," featuring documentary photographs of the architectural giants by Bruce Jackson, Jan. 22 to March 6.
  • Ulrich Baur, UB Physicist, Dies
    12/10/10
    Ulrich Baur, a professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Physics, died Nov. 25 while on vacation with his wife, Yvonne, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was 53.
  • Top UB Engineering Students Won't Pay a Dime From Freshman Year Through the PhD
    12/8/10
    To attract and retain the most intellectually gifted students, the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the UB Honors College have announced the Presidential Scholarship/Doctoral Fellowship, which will provide full scholarships for qualified UB engineering students from freshman year through completion of their doctoral degrees.
  • Alcohol and Romantic Relationships: A Good or Bad Mix?
    12/7/10
    Drinking plays an important and sometimes unexpected role from one day to the next in young couples' romantic relationships, according to a new study by University at Buffalo and University of Missouri researchers.
  • How Rare is that Fingerprint? Computational Forensics Provides the First Clues
    12/7/10
    Crime scene forensic analysis has long functioned on the premise that a person's unique identity is hidden in the tiny loops and swirls of their fingerprints, but teasing that information out of the incomplete prints left at crime scenes is still an inexact science, at best.