News Releases

In the wake of University at Buffalo head football coach Turner Gill accepting the head coaching job at University of Kansas, Director of Athletics Warde Manuel has named Danny Barrett interim head coach while a national search process commences.

The University at Buffalo Regional Institute will welcome the community into its new space in downtown Buffalo at an open house to be held December 15.

The Department of Library and Informational Studies in the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education has joined forces with staff volunteers from the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center to open a new patient library at the hospital's West Seneca facility.

UB officials continue to monitor the weather; as of 4 p.m. UB remains open.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present the North American premiere of The Opera Show on Jan. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.

The work of Lorraine Collins, PhD, is focused on important peer-reviewed research addressing significant social problems affecting urban and minority populations. Alcohol and drug use among young people leads to a range of very costly social problems that affect us all, such as violence, crime and addiction. Dr. Collins is one of the top researchers in the addiction field in the U.S. Her work, published in the leading research journals, is helping society gain a better understanding of addiction and alcoholism.

The University at Buffalo Police Department has begun its annual Seat Belt Awareness campaign to promote safety this holiday season.

Marie Battaglia has been named "Protege of the Year" by the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program, a joint venture by the University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and the UB Center for Urban Studies.

A multidisciplinary investigation of the evolving role of pro bono legal services in the United States demonstrates that available private and public resources do not meet the legal needs of Americans of limited means.

A University at Buffalo researcher has invented a statistical method that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry, a system that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify potential music corruption and to better target more traditional and much more costly hands-on evidence-gathering.