News Releases

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

  • UB Med Students Take Good Nutrition to Heart, Establish Campus Vegetable Garden
    4/23/10
    A quarter-acre vegetable garden is taking shape at the University at Buffalo, pioneered by a group of medical students who are putting into practice one of the axioms of the modern Hippocratic Oath: "I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure."
  • UB Sociologist Sampson Lee Blair Awarded 2010-11 Fulbright Scholar Grant
    4/23/10
    Sampson Lee Blair, PhD, of Williamsville, associate professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research at Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan) on the island of Mindanao, the Philippines, during the 2010-11 academic year.
  • Max Weinberg Big Band to Perform Oct. 8
    4/23/10
    Entering the third act of an already celebrated career, Max Weinberg will present the Max Weinberg Big Band at 8 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North Campus.
  • Media Advisory: UB Architecture Students Put Up "Living Wall" at Griffis Sculpture Park
    4/23/10
    "The Living Wall," a series of 14 "interactive" pods designed by UB first year undergraduate architecture students, will open to the public this weekend.
  • Conference to Look at the Puzzle of Children in the Ancient World
    4/23/10
    Historians know that children were active cultural participants in ancient times and so they are present in archaeological contexts, although evidence of their lives and roles have often been under-analyzed and perhaps misunderstood. On April 24-25, scholars from across the U.S. and Europe will gather at the University at Buffalo to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue on the notion of childhood and children in the archeological record from ancient times to the recent era.
  • 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.<