News Releases

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

  • Gift to Support Advanced Visualization Laboratory in New Engineering Building
    11/29/10
    The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has received a $100,000 gift to name the advanced visualization networking systems laboratory in the school's new building, slated for completion in 2011.
  • UB Law Professor Winnifred F. Sullivan Awarded Prestigious Luce Grant to Study Politics of Religious Freedom
    11/24/10
    Winnifred F. Sullivan, professor and director of the Law, Religion and Culture Program in the University at Buffalo Law School, is one of four national scholars to receive a grant from the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs for a new project entitled "Politics of Religious Freedom."
  • From Understanding Alzheimer's to Whale Songs, Undergrads Pursue Exciting Research
    11/23/10
    Motivated University at Buffalo students are using their brains to study the brains of others: from collecting whale songs in Puerto Rico as a way to map the brain of one of the world's largest animals, to researching the effects of drugs like methamphetamine, to exploring the cause and prevention of degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's.
  • UB CAT Supports Western New York Life Sciences Industry with more than $440,000 for 18 companies
    11/23/10
    The University at Buffalo Center for Advanced Biomedical and Bioengineering Technology (UB CAT) is distributing more than $440,000 to help 18 companies in Western New York develop promising life sciences technologies in the 2010-11 fiscal year.
  • Experts available to discuss safe holiday driving and the new airport full-body scan
    11/23/10
    University at Buffalo faculty experts are available to comment on the following topics: Safe driving tips for the holiday and the uphill battle of a possible legal challenge to the body scans. The thoughts of the UB faculty members are summarized below. For more information or to search the university's Newstips blog, go to the Newstips Web site.
  • Students Mad for Madness in America
    11/22/10
    Students at the University at Buffalo are exploring the history of mental illness in American culture: from early treatments reminiscent of water boarding, to modern-day psychiatry's addiction to anti-depressants, with more than a few questionable practices in between.
  • UB Law School Dean Mutua Selected for Attorney General's Transition Team
    11/22/10
    University at Buffalo Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua has been chosen by Attorney General-elect Eric T. Schneiderman for his transition committee to help recruit top legal talent to join the attorney general's staff and to provide policy recommendations to improve the lives of New Yorkers.
  • UB School of Management Names Winners in PwC xACT Case Competition
    11/19/10
    A team of four undergraduates and one graduate student in the UB School of Management will share a $1,000 prize as winners of the seventh annual PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) xACT Case Competition.
  • UB's Ken Takeuchi is Carnegie Foundation's New York Professor of the Year
    11/18/10
    The night before Ken Takeuchi started teaching Chemistry 101 back in 1983, he walked into the empty classroom in Acheson Hall on the University at Buffalo's South Campus, where he was about to begin his career.
  • In the Shadow of Icons: Design Dialogue to Discuss Cottages Planned Near Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
    11/18/10
    The Martin House Restoration Corporation and University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning are co-sponsoring a Friday night dialogue on a competition to design a series of guest cottages situated near architect Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.