News Releases

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

  • Endangered Falcons Settle into a Custom-Made Love Nest, Courtesy of UB
    4/15/09
    A pair of peregrine falcons has settled into its custom-made nesting box situated on top of MacKay Heating Plant on the University at Buffalo's South (Main Street) Campus, thanks to the cooperative efforts of the University at Buffalo and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
  • Kenyan Prime Minister to Deliver UB Law School Commencement Address
    4/13/09
    Republic of Kenya Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga will deliver the University at Buffalo Law School commencement address in a ceremony that will include conferral of honorary degrees to Irene Zubaida Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International, and J. Mason Davis Jr., a practicing attorney who played a key role in the desegregation of Alabama in the 1960s.
  • UB Experts Available to Discuss Obama's Decision to Lift Cuba Travel Restrictions
    4/13/09
    University at Buffalo facultly members Jose Buscaglia and Henry Taylor have extensive experience living in Cuba and studying its culture and economy. They are available to discuss President Obama's decision to relax U.S. restrictions on travel to Cuba.
  • UB Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership to Hold Open House
    4/13/09
    The University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) will hold an open house for individuals interested in the CEL Core program, designed to help Western New York businesses and entrepreneurs improve their bottom line and be successful.
  • International Experts on Hyperbaric Medicine to Honor UB Physiologist Claes Lundgren
    4/13/09
    World experts on hyperbaric medicine will convene in the Hyatt Regency in Buffalo April 15-18 for a scientific symposium recognizing University at Buffalo Professor Claes E.G. Lundgren, M.D., Ph.D., for his contributions to the field and to honor his recent appointment as SUNY Distinguished Professor.
  • Powerful Portfolio of Nazi Archives by Photographer Richard Erhlich Coming to UB
    4/9/09
    In addition to the massive atrocity of the Holocaust and the individual horrors that attended it, most people have no idea of the extent of the weirdly obsessive record-keeping practices of the Nazis bureaucracy, whose millions of mundane and detailed materials present excruciating and undeniable evidence of its terrible crimes. The existence of these records has documented by noted photographer Richard Ehrlich, M.D.
  • UB Asian Studies Faculty Members Win National Book Awards in Their Fields
    4/9/09
    Two members of the University at Buffalo faculty members -- one in the Department of History, one in the Graduate School of Education -- affiliated with the university's Asian Studies Program have received national awards for work in their fields.
  • Media Advisory: UB's Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy Continues Three-Part Series Featuring Ivy League Scholars
    4/9/09
    Columbia University Professor of Anthropology Michael Taussig will look at emerging issues of cultural and intellectual property this afternoon as part of the University at Buffalo's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy's two-day speaker series.
  • UB Jewish Institute, Art Galleries to Present "The Holocaust and Art: Differing Approaches"
    4/9/09
    :If we are to learn from the past, if we are ever to rise above inhumanity, we must never underestimate its resources and terrors," says Richard Cohen, professor of philosophy and director of the Institute for Jewish Thought and Heritage at the University at Buffalo. With that in mind, the institute and the UB Art Gallery will bring noted artists together this month to discuss and demonstrate some of the stunning ways in which art illuminates such "resources and terrors" at work in the Shoah in ways that other forms of documentation do not.
  • UB Expert Available to Discuss April 6 Earthquake in Italy
    4/9/09
    On April 6, a powerful earthquake struck central Italy, near the medieval town of L'Aquila, about 75 miles northeast of Rome. Gian Paolo Cimellaro, a graduate of the University at Buffalo's doctoral program in earthquake engineering and a visiting professor at UB. Cimellaro arrived in Buffalo on April 8; he was in Rome when the Paganica earthquake struck on Monday morning.