News Releases

The University at Buffalo will unveil its recently donated multimillion-dollar collection of archaeological and ethnographic objects -- from 6,000 year-old anthropomorphic figurines from Europe and the Near East , to ceremonial African dolls from the mid-20th century -- at a premiere public opening from 1 to 5 p.m. today (Sunday, March 28), at the university's Anderson Gallery, One Martha Jackson Place in Buffalo.

A visionary who developed the world's most popular mapping Web site, an internationally beloved spiritual leader and humanitarian, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and a pioneering leader in drug discovery have been selected to receive honorary degrees from the State University of New York.

UB President John B. Simpson will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. on Monday, March 29. He will discuss threats to the UB 2020 plan in the wake of current and projected budget cuts, and their impact on UB and all of Western New York.

"The Nature of Knowledge Interaction: Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Western Environmental Science" will be the subject of a talk by Dan Longboat, assistant professor of native studies at Trent University, today (Thursday, March 25) from 7-9 p.m. in 120 Clemens Hall on the University at Buffalo North Campus.

WBFO 88.7 FM, the University at Buffalo's NPR member station, today completed the most successful on-air fundraising drive in the station's 51-year history. The drive began last week with the popular "Super Thursday" matching pledge day, and the final pledges came in during the last hour of WBFO's Morning Edition with Bert Gambini at 9:59 a.m. today.

An article in the Wall Street Journal about a decision by Stanford University to shut down an experimental program that inserted metal stents into the internal jugular veins of multiple sclerosis patients in an effort to improve their symptoms reports that hundreds of patients have signed up for imaging programs to measure vein blockages at institutions that include UB.

Ronald J. Huefner, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the University at Buffalo School of Management, has been named the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award by the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA).

One UB faculty member treated survivors on a U.S. Navy ship; another led engineers to assess the safety of structures in Port-au-Prince, while another used remote sensing technologies to help determine the extent of damage.

Registration is open for the University at Buffalo's second annual Coast to Coast Symposium on Arts, Entertainment and Media (UBC2C NYC), to be held July 23-25 at Macaulay Honors College at CUNY in New York City. The three-day event is designed to bring UB students and recent graduates together to learn, network and explore careers with prominent UB alumni in arts, entertainment and media.

A University at Buffalo School of Social Work researcher has developed and tested a "wellness curriculum" designed to improve the health of Native American urban youth shown to be at higher risk to develop health problems, including cancer.