News Releases

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

  • New Book Offers Rich, Rigorous Exploration of Imagination and the Science of the Mind
    12/2/09
    In a groundbreaking new book, "The Neural Imagination" (2009, University of Texas Press), Irving Massey, PhD, explores the relevance of neuroscience to the study of the arts. Subtitled "Aesthetic and Neuroscientific Approaches to the Arts," the book is concerned with the emergence and significance of neuroaesthetics, an alliance born of the recent and rapid convergence of art and technology.
  • Center for Educational Collaboration Brings Hands-on Science and Math to Time Warner Cable's STEM Fair
    12/1/09
    The University at Buffalo's Center for Educational Collaboration (CEC), Time Warner Cable and the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Northtowns hope to increase awareness and appreciation for state-of-the-art secondary science and math education at a fair to be held 4 p.m. Dec. 2 at 54 Riverdale Ave., Buffalo.
  • Ballot Initiatives Foster Distrust of State Government, Researcher Shows
    11/30/09
    Their original promise, as well as much recent research, suggests that institutions of direct democracy -- ballot initiatives that permit citizens to enact or reject the laws at the polls independent of the lawmaking power of the governing body -- produce an environment that encourages better democratic citizenship.
  • UB Physiologist Wins "Concept Award" to Study GI Mutation Related to Autism
    11/30/09
    A University at Buffalo physiologist is one of nine recipients from a field of 66 applicants to receive an Autism Research Program grant from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), under the U.S. Department of Defense.
  • Legendary Guitarist Buddy Guy to Perform April 7 in CFA
    11/30/09
    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Buddy Guy, a chief guitar influence to rock titans like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, will perform at 8 p.m. on April 7 in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North Campus.
  • NSF Awarded CAREER Awards to Six UB Faculty in 2009
    11/24/09
    Six University at Buffalo scientists and engineers have won 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER awards, the foundation's most prestigious award for junior investigators, which recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars "who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century."
  • Faculty experts can discuss holiday driving and shopping, Palin's book and American fringe groups
    11/24/09
    University at Buffalo faculty experts are available to discuss holiday driving and shopping, Sarah Palin's book and the prevalence of "fringe groups," among other news topics.
  • New Online Programs in Gifted Education Certification, Library Science to be Offered by the University at Buffalo
    11/24/09
    The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) is offering two new online programs to make it easier for professionals to pursue additional education in gifted education and library science.
  • Media Advisory: UB's State-of-the-Art Earthquake Lab to Host Critical Cranes Test
    11/23/09
    The University at Buffalo's Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) today (Monday, Nov. 23, 2009) will host a team of civil engineering researchers from Georgia Tech who have travelled to Buffalo to test on one of UB's high-performance earthquake simulators a 1/10 scale model of shipping container cranes.
  • Media Advisory: In Videoconference with Latvian Students, UB Top Inventor Will Discuss Science in U.S., Being Latvian-American
    11/23/09
    It's hardly newsworthy when professors lecture to students. But tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009) at 9 a.m., Esther S. Takeuchi, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Greatbatch Professor in Power Sources Research at the University at Buffalo, will be in a conference room on UB's suburban Buffalo campus addressing 600 medical students thousands of miles away in Riga, Latvia.