News Releases

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

  • Insulin May Reduce Several Inflammatory Factors Induced by Bacterial Infection
    9/8/10
    Treating intensive care patients who develop life-threatening bacterial infections, or septicemia, with insulin potentially could reduce their chances of succumbing to the infection, if results of a new preliminary study can be replicated in a larger study.
  • Experts to Speak on Advanced Accounting Topics
    9/8/10
    Financial experts Robert L. Goecks and Thomas P. Mullen will speak at the University at Buffalo School of Management on anti-money-laundering initiatives and mergers and acquisition, respectively.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger is Undergraduate Student Choice Speaker at UB
    9/8/10
    Politician, businessman and Hollywood icon Arnold Schwarzenegger will join the University at Buffalo Distinguished Speakers Series lineup at 8 p.m. on Jan. 27 as the series' Undergraduate Student Choice speaker.
  • Architect Creates 'Bat Tower' at Local Sculpture Park
    9/7/10
    A University at Buffalo architect's new project -- a twisted tower designed to house bats at Griffis Sculpture Park -- is raising awareness about the animals and a fatal disease threatening their population in the Northeast.
  • UB Law School Receives No. 1 Ranking
    9/7/10
    The University at Buffalo Law School is No. 1 in Thomson Reuter's "Super Lawyers" ranking of law graduates practicing in Upstate New York, which includes 54 of the 62 counties in New York State. This is in addition to the UB Law School's 2010 national ranking, where it placed 48th out of the 180 law schools in the country that produced Super Lawyers.
  • Media Advisory: UB Holds Neighbors Day Block Party and Safety Fair For Off-Campus Students
    9/3/10
    UB students living off campus will have a great opportunity to get to know their neighbors and their community on Sept. 5 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the UB Neighbors Day Block Party and Safety Fair. It takes place on the UB South Campus lawn near Hayes Hall.
  • 21st-Century Drug Discovery Tools to Fight Cancer, Blindness to be Discussed at UB Symposium
    9/2/10
    Twenty-first-century pharmaceutical breakthroughs require 21st-century drug discovery tools, such as computational or in silico molecular design and high-throughput screening of effective, new compounds. That's the theme of a University at Buffalo symposium to be held Sept. 11 on "Twenty-first Century Bioscience: In Silico Methods and High-Throughput Screening," which will feature a variety of cutting-edge advances in the field developed by researchers in Western New York and throughout the US.
  • UB School of Nursing Gets $1.47 Million to Educate More Future PhDs
    9/2/10
    Nursing faculty are in short supply nationally and this shortage is directly linked to the inability of schools of nursing to prepare enough entry level and advanced practice nurses to meet demands. The University at Buffalo School of Nursing has received a $1.47 million Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant to fund a program over the next three years that helps maximize the capacity to educate future PhD nurse faculty.
  • Stress Management with Chilean Miners Is a Tricky, But Not Impossible, Business
    9/2/10
    A psychologist and stress expert at the University at Buffalo says research on traumatic experiences pinpoints specific sources of stress that the trapped Chilean miners and their rescuers will need to manage in the weeks and months ahead, and offers ways of dealing with them.
  • CFA to Present Colm Wilkinson: Broadway & Beyond Sept. 27
    9/1/10
    The University at Buffalo will present Colm Wilkinson: Broadway & Beyond on Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage theater, located at the Center for the Arts, North Campus. This performance is sponsored in part by the Center for Plastic Surgery.