News Releases

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

  • Trick or Eat: UB Students to Participate in Annual Halloween Food Drive to Scare Up 140,000 Meals
    10/22/10
    When the door opens this Halloween, people may find a 20-year-old goblin on their doorstep who is definitely not your typical trick-or-treater. Underneath that costume is a student from the University at Buffalo, and he's not asking for candy. He's asking for a donation of non-perishable food to help Buffalo families who struggle to put food on the table.
  • 158 Years of YMCA Records and Documents Find a Home in the UB Archives
    10/21/10
    YMCA Buffalo Niagara, the second oldest YMCA branch in the United States, has presented to the University at Buffalo Archives a collection of records and documents dating to its founding in 1852.
  • Cabaret to be Performed at UB Nov. 17-20
    10/21/10
    The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will present Cabaret Nov. 17-21 in the Center for the Arts' Drama Theatre, 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 John Kander and Fred Ebb, will be presented in a full production with orchestra and newly designed and executed sets, lights and costumes.
  • Media Advisory: New York Fed President William Dudley to speak at UB on Oct. 27
    10/21/10
    William C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will speak at the University at Buffalo from 4-5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, in the Student Union Theater on the UB North Campus.
  • Radioactivity from Groundwater will be Filtered for Decades by Volcanic Rocks at Western New York Nuclear Waste Site
    10/21/10
    A massive treatment wall under construction this week at a Western New York nuclear waste cleanup site will stop radioactive contamination in its tracks for literally decades, according to University at Buffalo engineers who modeled and tested the wall's material.
  • Scientists Track an Insidious Toxic Substance in China
    10/20/10
    Scientists at the University at Buffalo and the Chinese University of Mining and Technology/Beijing are tracing a toxic trajectory of excess fluorine, which may be crippling millions of people with skeletal fluorosis in a poor, remote Chinese province. The disease causes chronic joint pain and leads to muscle wasting and crippling spine and major joint deformities. Most often, the source is excess fluorine in polluted water, but in certain areas in China it comes from coal.
  • Media Advisory: Students to Get a 'Taste of Italy' at UB's First Guest Restaurant Night
    10/20/10
    Dining hall food at the University at Buffalo will reach a new level on Wednesday, Oct. 20, as the renowned and local favorite Ilio DiPaolo's Restaurant serves UB students during Taste of Italy Night, the first installment in the university's Guest Restaurant program.
  • Hormone Therapy Increases Invasive Breast Cancer and Mortality, WHI 11-Year Follow Up Finds
    10/20/10
    Results of a new Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report show that hormone therapy is associated with an increased risk of death from breast cancer, as well as an increased risk of developing invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
  • Community Partnership Award Recognizes 20 Years of Collaboration Between UB's School of Architecture and Planning and Habitat for Humanity
    10/20/10
    The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has received the 2010 Award for Community Partnership from Habitat for Humanity Buffalo. The accolade recognizes the work of architecture and planning students, who have constructed 47 houses in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Buffalo since 1991.
  • Media Advisory: Students to Get a 'Taste of Italy' at UB's First Guest Restaurant Night
    10/19/10
    Dining hall food at the University at Buffalo will reach a new level on Wednesday, Oct. 20, as the renowned and local favorite Ilio DiPaolo's Restaurant serves UB students during Taste of Italy Night, the first installment in the university's Guest Restaurant program.