News Releases

Over the past two years, the City of Buffalo and the University at Buffalo have been working with residents and students to enhance the quality of life in the University Heights neighborhood. Last Sunday's tragic death of Javon Jackson reminds us of the importance of this collaborative approach.

The third season of the University Community Farmers Market will open May 16 on the University at Buffalo South (Main Street) Campus featuring a variety of new and old vendors and wineries selling fresh food and local products.

Dozens of investors and venture capitalists from around the state will learn about pioneering clean energy technologies being developed in Buffalo Niagara by researchers at the University at Buffalo and local companies when they attend the Explore Buffalo Niagara 2009 Investor and Entrepreneur Energy Forum to be held today (Thursday, May 14, 2009) in UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicott Street, Buffalo.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced an award of $1.5 million to the University at Buffalo Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach to establish a clean energy business incubator program that will provide business support to accelerate the successful development of early-stage, clean energy technology companies in Western New York.

A University at Buffalo professor who has garnered more than 140 patents for power sources for tiny biomedical devices now is working to develop batteries that could power much larger devices, such as electric vehicles.

Dozens of investors and venture capitalists from around the state will learn about pioneering clean energy technologies being developed in Buffalo Niagara by researchers at the University at Buffalo and local companies when they attend the Explore Buffalo Niagara 2009 Investor and Entrepreneur Energy Forum to be held tomorrow (Thursday, May 14, 2009) in UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicott Street, Buffalo.

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo, a scholar recognized for her research into the shamanic practices of Chile's Mapuche Indians, has been named a 2009-10 Fellow of the National Humanities Center (NHC) in North Carolina's Research Triangle.

Fifteen graduates of the University at Buffalo School of Management received awards during the school's commencement ceremony on May 9.

Javon R. Jackson, a 2009 UB graduate, died May 10, 2009 after being shot off campus.

Faces will be beaming and flashbulbs will be popping when roughly 5,300 students "walk" and receive their degrees at the University at Buffalo's 163rd general commencement ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 10, 2009, in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.