News Releases

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

  • Blacks Have Highest Cancer Rates of All Racial Ethnicities, Yet Feel Less at Risk, Study Finds
    3/15/10
    Mammograms, pap smears and early detection tests for prostate cancer, colorectal cancer and other malignancies are critical for catching cancer before it becomes deadly. However, a new study by University at Buffalo researchers shows that persons of different ethnic groups have different ideas and opinions about whether they are at risk for developing cancer -- perceptions that can influence whether they undergo screening.
  • Media Advisory: UB inventors to be recognized for devices ranging from cardiac catheter to handwriting analyzer
    3/15/10
    More than 25 University at Buffalo faculty inventors will be honored today (March 15) at the UB Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception to be held from 4-6 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow on UB's North Campus. Formal program begins at 4:50 p.m.
  • Dennis Black Honored by NASPA
    3/15/10
    Dennis R. Black of Buffalo, vice president for student affairs at the University at Buffalo, has received the 2010 Fred Turner Award for Outstanding Service from NASPA -- Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.
  • Grand Opening: UB School of Nursing to Celebrate Its New Home
    3/15/10
    The University at Buffalo School of Nursing will unveil its new home and innovative academic approach with a grand opening and tour of renovated clinical facilities and research space -- including exclusive, live interviews with its talking "patient" mannequins -- at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, March 16) in Wende Hall on the university's South Campus.
  • Award-Winning Architect of African Schools to Deliver 2010 Birdair Lecture at UB
    3/12/10
    Diébédo Francis Kéré, an award-winning architect from Burkina Faso whose practice is dedicated to sustainable architecture, will deliver the 2010 Birdair Lecture at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning March 26 at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall on UB's South Campus.
  • School of Management Alumni Association Honors Student Leaders
    3/11/10
    The University at Buffalo School of Management Alumni Association has recognized 16 students with two newly established awards honoring community service and leadership.
  • UB Department of Theatre and Dance to Present Thornton Wilder's "Our Town"
    3/11/10
    The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will present Thornton Wilder's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Our Town" April 14-18 in the Drama Theatre, located in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. Performance times are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
  • Media Advisory: 'Cool Science' Returns -- UB's Annual Science Exploration Day to Bring Top Students, Researchers to Campus
    3/10/10
    Some of the best science minds around bring their hands-on exhibits and passion for their work to the University at Buffalo's North Campus today (Wednesday, March 10) for the university's annual Science Exploration Day celebration.
  • Prehistoric Response to Global Warming Informs Human Planning Today
    3/10/10
    Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, and northern Finland, to understand how humans living 4,000 to 6,000 years ago reacted to climate changes. Their findings will tell governments, scientists and NGOs how relationships between human beings and their environments may change in decades to come as a result of global warming.
  • Financially Savvy Teens Tout Skills in Money Bee
    3/10/10
    Teams from Clarence High School, Sacred Heart Academy and Harkness Career & Technical Center have placed first, second and third, respectively, in "MoneySKILL® Mania," a financial literacy competition for high school students sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Management and M&T Bank.