News Releases

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

  • Big Hopes, Small Pharma: UB Spin-Off Wins FDA Orphan Designation for Drug made from Tarantula Venom
    11/9/10
    As Rose Pharmaceuticals marks its first anniversary this month, the stockbroker and University at Buffalo researchers who founded the company are celebrating a year of accomplishments.
  • Regional and International Awards Recognize UB's Effort to Create a Model 21st Century Campus
    11/9/10
    The University at Buffalo's comprehensive physical plan has received regional and international awards for excellence in three distinct areas: planning, landscape architecture and economic development.
  • Media Advisory: Humanitarian and Best-selling Author Greg Mortenson to Speak at UB Wednesday
    11/9/10
    Humanitarian, writer and former mountaineer Greg Mortenson will discuss the journey that led him to establish more than 100 schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan when he presents the next lecture in the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10, in Alumni Arena on the UB North Campus.
  • To Promote HIV Research in Africa, NIH Awards UB Pharmacology Lab $2.3 Million
    11/8/10
    For more than 10 years, the University at Buffalo's HIV Clinical Pharmacology Research Program has helped fight the global AIDS epidemic by hosting visiting pharmaceutical scientists from countries like Zimbabwe and Nigeria in order to teach them how to conduct clinical trials and research on HIV/AIDS. Now, in recognition of their success and the need to expand these efforts, the National Institutes of Health has awarded a total of $2.3 million to the UB laboratory.
  • For Chinese Families, Alzheimer's Presents Unique Cultural Challenges
    11/8/10
    If dementia were a country, its economy would rank 18th between Turkey and Indonesia. The total estimated global cost of dementia in 2010 is slated to be $604 billion, according to Alzheimer's Disease International. The sharpest increase in the 35.6 million people across the world with dementia is now occurring in rapidly developing regions -- especially in China.
  • UB's Alexandridis to Receive 2010 Schoellkopf Award
    11/8/10
    Paschalis Alexandridis, PhD, a UB distinguished professor and the director of graduate studies in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been chosen to receive the 2010 Jacob F. Schoellkopf Award.
  • OncoMed Partners with UB to Meet Growing Demands in Oncology Pharmacy
    11/5/10
    When one of the nation's largest providers of oncology pharmacy services, OncoMed, decided to expand from a New York City suburb into a new facility on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus last month, an important factor was the potential to partner with the University at Buffalo.
  • Cognitive Scientist Steve Pinker Will Inaugurate New UB Lecture Series
    11/5/10
    Steve Pinker, the uber-eminent and multiple award-winning cognitive scientist with rocker hair and a populist touch, will inaugurate the University at Buffalo Department of Philosophy's new Paul Kurtz Lecture Series on Dec. 2.
  • UB Offers Graduate and Professional Writing Courses for Adults
    11/5/10
    The Academic Writing Institute (AWI), part of Millard Fillmore College in UB's Division of Continuing and Professional Studies, will hold four non-credit courses designed to improve the writing skills of adults. The courses will feature shorter evening classes, each lasting about an hour and a half on a weeknight, making it easier for working adults to attend.
  • New Architecture and Planning Dean Wins Regional Achievement Award for Sustained Contributions to Planning Practice
    11/5/10
    The New York Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association has awarded Robert G. Shibley, the next dean of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, the Michael J. Krasner Professional Planner Award.