News Releases

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

  • Free Tax Service at UB Brings Nearly $1 Million Back to WNY
    4/21/10
    Over the past 10 weeks, 179 IRS-certified accounting students from the University at Buffalo School of Management brought $992,000 back into the Buffalo community through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.
  • Hammonds, Deputy County Executive and Six Sigma Expert, Rejoins UB
    4/21/10
    Alfred Hammonds Jr., deputy county executive for Erie County and formerly the county's director of Six Sigma, is returning to the University at Buffalo after helping the county become the nation's first large, metropolitan county to implement the quality-improvement program.
  • Vitamin D Status Not Predicted By Surrogate Markers, UB Researchers Find
    4/20/10
    Vitamin supplements, diet, geographic location, demographic information or lifestyle, independently or in combination, cannot accurately predict vitamin D concentrations in blood, researchers at the University at Buffalo have found.
  • UB Police Investigating Robbery
    4/19/10
    University Police are investigating a strong-arm robbery which occurred at approximately 12:05 a.m. on Sunday, April 18, near Townsend Parking Lot on the University at Buffalo South Campus.
  • UB Student A Cappella Group Heading to National Competition in NYC
    4/19/10
    Ask the 13 University at Buffalo students in the award-winning, high-flying, history-making, musical zone-dwelling, universally charming, suddenly famous Buffalo Chips a cappella group whether they now believe the truth of that familiar musical adage: A good song can take you far.
  • Volcanic Ash Research Shows How Plumes End up in the Jet Stream
    4/16/10
    A University at Buffalo volcanologist, an expert in volcanic ash cloud transport, published a paper recently showing how the jet stream, the area in the atmosphere that pilots prefer to fly in, also seems to be the area most likely to be impacted by plumes from volcanic ash.
  • Media Advisory: UB Architecture Students To Present Memorial Bench Honoring Firefighters Chip McCarthy and Jonathan Croom at 7:30 p.m. Tonight
    4/16/10
    A memorial bench designed and built by students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning in honor of firefighters Charles "Chip" McCarthy and Jonathan Croom who died Aug. 24, 2009 in a Genesee Street fire will be presented to Buffalo Fire Department Ladder 7 and Engine 34 Firehouse, 2738 Main St., in the University District, at 7:30 p.m. April 16.
  • UB Libraries Offer Leisure Reading Collections in Japanese, Chinese, Korean
    4/15/10
    Lockwood Memorial Library at the University at Buffalo now has international collections of popular fiction and non-fiction books in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese -- three languages spoken by large and growing segments of the UB community.
  • "Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe" is Topic of Free Physics Lecture at UB
    4/15/10
    BUFFALO,N.Y. -- William D. Phillips, 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics, who is renowned for the spectacular demonstrations that accompany his lectures, will deliver the 16th annual Moti Lal Rustgi Lecture at 5 p.m., April 23, in Room 225, Natural Sciences Complex on the UB North Campus. It is free and open to the public.
  • Students'' 'Living Wall' Goes Up in Griffis Sculpture Park
    4/15/10
    The Living Wall, a "linear community of pods" comprising 14 full-scale interactive structures created by 100 University at Buffalo architecture students, will be exhibited through Oct. 23 at Griffis Sculpture Park, where visitors climbing on, over and through them will help the students test the functionality of their designs.