News Releases

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

  • NPR Counterterrorism Correspondent Dina Temple-Raston to Visit WBFO April 28
    4/23/10
    Dina Temple-Raston, who reports on counterterrorism at home and abroad for NPR News, will visit the studios of WBFO 88.7 FM, a public service of the University at Buffalo, for a special one-hour call-in show at 3 p.m. April 28.
  • UB School of Management Students Help Community with Aid from PwC
    4/23/10
    PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has awarded $5,000 to five student organizations in the University at Buffalo School of Management to assist them in a community renovation project at Buffalo's VIVE La Casa refugee shelter.
  • UB School of Management Honors Interns and Supervisors
    4/23/10
    The Frank L. Ciminelli Family Career Resource Center and the Credit-Bearing Internship Program in the University at Buffalo School of Management honored six professionals, five students and four companies on April 16 at a reception in the South Lake Community Building on UB's North Campus.
  • Walter Hood to Design Solar Array on UB Campus
    4/22/10
    The University at Buffalo and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced today that internationally renowned artist and landscape architect Walter Hood of Oakland, Calif., is the winner of a public art competition to design the 1.1 megawatt solar array that will be constructed by NYPA this year on UB's North Campus.
  • UB Solar Installation Designer to be Announced Today
    4/22/10
    UB President John B. Simpson and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) will introduce the winning designer of an innovative solar installation to be constructed on UB's North Campus at event to be held at 3:30 p.m. today, Thursday, April 22, in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Clifton Hall, 1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo.<
  • UB's Stratigakos Named Fellow of Rice University Humanities Research Center
    4/22/10
    Despina Stratigakos, PhD, assistant professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and an award-winning architectural historian whose work addresses issues of diversity in architecture, is one of four scholars selected from 84 applicants to be 2010-11 External Fellows of the Rice University Humanities Research Center (HRC).
  • Fresh Off the Red-Eye, Winning Solar Designer to be Introduced this Afternoon
    4/22/10
    Fresh off a red-eye flight from California, artist Walter Hood of Oakland ( Photo: www.buffalo.edu/news/11247) will be introduced today as the winner of a UB-sponsored international competition to design a massive solar installation that will power 735 student apartments on UB's North Campus.
  • Media Advisory: Designer for Solar Installation on UB North Campus to be Introduced April 22
    4/21/10
    UB President John B. Simpson and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) will introduce the winning designer of an innovative solar installation to be constructed on UB's North Campus at event to be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 22, in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Clifton Hall, 1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo.
  • Ash Crisis May Not Be Over, Says Leading Volcanologist
    4/21/10
    Air travel may be resuming in some European countries, but Michael F. Sheridan, PhD, a leading volcanologist and founder of the University at Buffalo's Center for Geohazards Studies, says that the future behavior of both the volcanic ash cloud and the eruptive system that spurred it is difficult to predict.
  • Discussion of Alternative Teacher Training Programs Would Benefit from Careful Analysis of Current Programs, Says Education Dean
    4/21/10
    University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education Dean Mary H. Gresham said today that critics of universities that train teachers shouldn't assume that schools of education are the reason for poor student achievement in our nation's elementary and secondary schools. Instead, she said that critics would help students more by launching a careful examination of these programs' strengths and weaknesses.