News Releases

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

  • BPO to Kick Off Third Season of UB on the Green
    7/17/09
    The University at Buffalo will launches its third season of UB on the Green, a free outdoor performance series held on the South (Main Street) Campus, with a performance by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • Classes, Activities Cancelled in Diefendorf Hall Today
    7/16/09
    Classes and activities in Diefendorf Hall on the University at Buffalo's South (Main Street) Campus have been cancelled today, Thursday, July 16, due to a minor electrical fire that occurred in a fan unit on the roof of the building this morning. Further updates will be provided as information becomes available.
  • Diefendorf Hall Reopens
    7/16/09
    Diefendorf Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus has reopened, and classes and activities are being held as normally scheduled. The building was closed this morning (Thursday, July 16) as the result of a fire in a fan unit on the building's roof.
  • Media Advisory: Science Educators Converge at UB for Online Classroom Symposium
    7/15/09
    More than 30 middle school, high school, pre-service science and college educators from states ranging from Michigan to Massachusetts will come together on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus today (Wednesday, July 15, 2009) to discuss the latest online resources to help them teach complicated scientific concepts to students who need science knowledge now more than ever.
  • Media Advisory: Building a Better Bridge
    7/13/09
    Researchers from the University at Buffalo's MCEER and from Calspan today will discuss details and provide images of plans to build two 72-foot-long bridges in Ashford, N.Y., 35 miles south of Buffalo, as part of a project to test how adverse weather conditions and seismic vibrations affect new bridge technologies.
  • MCEER and Calspan Partner for Full-Scale Bridge Test
    7/13/09
    Researchers at MCEER, the University at Buffalo's Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, and Calspan, Western New York's global leader in independent aviation and transportation testing, plan to subject two full-scale bridges and their advanced protective technologies to a full range of naturally occurring environmental and climatic conditions, as well as earthquake vibrations.
  • Stress and Depression Worsen Childhood Asthma, UB Researchers Show
    7/10/09
    Young people with asthma have nearly twice the incidence of depression compared to their peers without asthma, and studies have shown that depression is associated with increased asthma symptoms and, in some cases, death.
  • UB, University of Florida to present Arts in Healthcare Summer Intensive Training Program
    7/8/09
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo and the University of Florida Center for the Arts in Healthcare will hold an Arts in Healthcare Summer Intensive Training program Aug. 10-21.
  • UB Media Contacts Directory (Updated)
    7/8/09
    The University at Buffalo media relations office is switching to new phone numbers on Friday, July 10. Below is an updated phone directory indicating the names of UB's media contacts and the areas of the university for which they are responsible.
  • What On Earth Is Driving the Melodramatic, Histrionic Michael Jackson Coverage?
    7/7/09
    The 24-7, wall-to-wall press coverage of the life, death, music, clothing, vitiligo, sex life, "dearest friends" and plastic surgeries of musician Michael Jackson raises the question, "What the heck is going on?"