News Releases

William R. Greiner, who spent 42 years at the University at Buffalo as president, provost and longtime Law School faculty member, died surrounded by family members in the Cleveland Clinic on Saturday (Dec. 19) due to complications from heart surgery. He was 75.

University of Cincinnati offensive coordinator Jeff Quinn will be announced as the 24th head football coach in University at Buffalo history on Tuesday afternoon.

Western New York business professionals striving to save money and boost efficiency in their organizations may attend a variety of business improvement workshops and training sessions being offered this spring by the University at Buffalo's Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE).

University at Buffalo faculty experts are available to discuss the image of marriage in the wake of the Tiger Woods scandal, the proposed ban on loud TV commercials, holiday gift ideas for people with disabilities and health-care reform, among other topics.

Carlene Hatcher Polite of Amherst, N.Y., associate professor emerita of English at the University at Buffalo, and one of the most important artists to emerge from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, died Dec. 7 at the age of 77 in Hospice Buffalo, Cheektowaga, N.Y.

Kid Corridor zones, student safety education and detailed maps of safe walking and bicycling routes are among the recommendations made by University at Buffalo graduate students in the Department of Urban and Regional planning to encourage students in the Williamsville Central School District (WCSD) to get out of cars and off buses and ride and walk to school instead.

University at Buffalo sociologist Sampson Blair says Tiger Woods' alleged rampant infidelities don't affect the status of marriage and the family because his lifestyle and wealth are regarded by most Americans as an exception to the rule, and his behavior is seen as attached to the lifestyle.

University Police made an arrest yesterday soon after a vehicle was reported stolen from the South Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present the Band of the Irish Guards, featuring the pipes, drums and highland dancers of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) on Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus. The performance will feature the music of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Parents looking for a meaningful gift to give their high school senior should check out an online study guide by a University at Buffalo professor who first created it as a going-away-to-college guide for his stepdaughter.