News Releases

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

  • Haitian Tragedy: Faculty Experts Available for Commentary
    1/14/10
    University at Buffalo faculty -- including earthquake engineering, disaster, trauma and communication experts -- are available to discuss the tragic earthquake in Haiti. A listing of the experts and their commentary is available at http://newstips.buffalo.edu.
  • Gifted Math Program at UB Seeks Nominations for Fall 2010 Class
    1/13/10
    The Gifted Math Program at the University at Buffalo is accepting nominations submitted by schools and parents of outstanding sixth-grade mathematics students for its Fall 2010 entering class.
  • Media Advisory: Looking for Census Information?
    1/12/10
    Editors, reporters and researchers looking for accurate census data, past and present, can find help in the University at Buffalo Arts and Sciences Libraries' online Government Documents Center.
  • Expert to Speak on International Financial Reporting Standards
    1/12/10
    Lisa D. Filomia, on-call practice leader at Ernst & Young, will speak at the University at Buffalo School of Management on "International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): The U.S. Landscape."
  • Friendship May Help Stem Rise of Obesity in Children, Study Finds
    1/11/10
    Parents are acutely aware of the influence of friends on their children's behavior -- how they dress, how they wear their hair, whether they drink or smoke. A new laboratory-based study has shown that friends also may influence how much adolescents eat.
  • UB Launches David Blitzer Lectures in Jewish Studies
    1/8/10
    The University at Buffalo Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage will present the first David Blitzer Lecture Series in Jewish Studies Feb. 4 to April 22.
  • June in Buffalo 2010 Anniversary Program Being Planned at UB
    1/8/10
    June in Buffalo, the internationally celebrated festival and conference for emerging composers of new music, will celebrate its 35th anniversary this year and it has a treat in store for its audiences.
  • Parking Expert Donald Shoup Will Be Clarkson Chair in Planning at UB in January
    1/8/10
    Donald Shoup, PhD, a widely published and influential professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been named the 2010 Clarkson Visiting Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
  • Kenneth B. Forrest to Receive the 33rd Edwin F. Jaeckle Award in NYC on Jan. 29
    1/7/10
    The Edwin F. Jaeckle Award, the highest honor awarded by the University at Buffalo Law School and the UB Law Alumni Association, will be given to Kenneth B. Forrest, JD '76, for his distinguished contributions to four deans in setting the strategic direction of the Law School. Forrest is a longtime member and past chair of UB Law School's Dean's Advisory Council.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Commemorate 210th Birthday of Millard Fillmore
    1/7/10
    The University at Buffalo will uphold a longstanding winter tradition as it celebrates the 210th anniversary of the birth of Millard Fillmore, UB's first chancellor and the 13th president of the United States, at a ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. today (Thursday, Jan. 7, 2009) at Fillmore's gravesite in Forest Lawn Cemetery.