News Releases

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

  • Media Advisory: UB and Roswell Park Will Unveil a New Technology that Will Dramatically Improve Robotic Surgery
    2/24/10
    Members of the media will have a chance to see and even try their hand at using a new, robotic surgery simulator invented by University at Buffalo engineers and collaborators at Roswell Park Cancer Institute that will improve robotic surgery training and practice. The new product will be unveiled tomorrow.
  • Hypnosis Can Help Control Pain Among Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer, UB Researcher Finds
    2/24/10
    Hypnosis can help alleviate the pain and suffering experienced by women being treated for breast cancer, according to a study by a University at Buffalo School of Social Work professor.
  • "Discover Law '10 @ UB Law" Hopes to Attract Talented, Aspiring Students of Color
    2/24/10
    The University at Buffalo Law School and the Minority Bar Association of Western New York will hold their annual Minority High School Student Visitation Program "Discover Law '10 @ UB Law" from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 5 in John Lord O'Brian Hall on the UB North Campus.
  • "Smart Grid" Is Focus of First Workshop in UB's "Business of Energy" Series
    2/23/10
    The University at Buffalo's clean energy business incubator program, Directed Energy, will host "Smart Grid Opportunities," a half-day workshop designed to help businesses and researchers better comprehend technical advancements and business opportunities related to efforts to revamp the electrical grid.
  • Buffalo Site is First in U.S. Approved for Trial of New Stroke Drug
    2/23/10
    The University at Buffalo's Department of Neurology/Jacobs Neurological Institute is the first site in the U.S. approved to enroll patients in a clinical trial of the drug desmosteplase, a new treatment for acute ischemic stroke.
  • Media Advisory: Controversial Free-Software Activist to Speak at UB
    2/22/10
    Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation and one of the most controversial figures in the history of the Internet, will discuss "Copyright and Community in the Age of Computer Networks" on Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. in 112 Norton Hall on the University at Buffalo's North Campus.
  • UB Law School Auction to Benefit Public-interest Internships
    2/22/10
    The Buffalo Public Interest Law Program (BPILP) will host its 15th annual auction to benefit scholarships for law students interested in working this summer for public-interest organizations and agencies at 6 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Pearl Street Bar & Brewery, 76 Pearl St., Buffalo.
  • UB Chemist Will Receive Prestigious Mentor's Award from AAAS
    2/19/10
    Luis A. Colon, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, is receiving the 2009 AAAS Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
  • Timely Warning: UB Police Report Library Thefts
    2/19/10
    Recently there have been several thefts reported primarily in the UB libraries, but also other locations. In virtually every instance the stolen items were left unattended.
  • Media Advisory: UB Celebrates Winter in Buffalo
    2/19/10
    The University at Buffalo will celebrate Winterfest 2010 this weekend (Friday and Saturday, Feb. 19 and 20) at South Lake Village on the North Campus with a variety of activities aimed at warming up those wintertime blues.