News Releases

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

  • State Budget Includes Funding to Advance UB 2020 Plans for Downtown Buffalo, but also will Result in a $6 Million to $9 Million Cut to UB's Operating Budget
    3/31/09
    The New York State budget expected to be enacted in Albany this week includes funding to help the University at Buffalo move forward with plans to expand the UB campus in downtown Buffalo, under the UB 2020 strategic plan, UB officials said today.
  • MBA Scholarships Awarded in UB Case Competition
    3/31/09
    A $500 scholarship was awarded to each member of the winning team in the University at Buffalo School of Management's third annual Steven C. Verney MBA Case Competition.
  • James Gates, Leading African-American Physicist and PBS Personality, to Visit UB
    3/30/09
    "Great science belongs to everybody." That sentiment is often expressed by S. James Gates Jr., Ph.D., John S. Toll Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, who will visit the University at Buffalo on April 3 to give the annual Rustgi lecture, presented by the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • UB Regional Institute Goes 'Inside the Ballot Box' for 2008 Presidential Election in Western New York
    3/30/09
    The University at Buffalo Regional Institute has issued a detailed analysis of Western New York's voting patterns in the 2008 presidential election. Among the key findings are that the region's most populated areas -- urban and suburban -- voted for Barack Obama, although 85 percent of the region's municipalities voted for McCain. The region also voted more Democratic in 2008 compared to 2004, especially rural areas, while the region's rank of registered Republicans shrank.
  • UB Physicists Invite the Public to Celebrate "100 Hours of Astronomy"
    3/30/09
    On April 3, faculty and students in the University at Buffalo's Department of Physics will celebrate "100 Hours of Astronomy," an event being held worldwide, by inviting the public to come to UB to view streaming Webcasts from the world's major telescopes.
  • UB Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship Renamed for Willie R. Evans
    3/26/09
    A scholarship established by the University at Buffalo Alumni Association in 2007 was renamed in honor of Willie R. Evans, Ed.B. '60, during the association's awards ceremony on March 20.
  • Media Advisory: Who Are The Extraterrestrials Among Us? Whales!
    3/26/09
    Quick: name one mammal that looks anything like a whale. You can't. Modern whales are at the same time mammals and "real-life" extraterrestrials who have adapted to life in the water. That's according to University of Michigan Professor Philip D. Gingerich, who is an expert on whales and how they evolved. He conducts fieldwork in the deserts of Pakistan and Egypt where he has discovered skeletons linking whales to land animals.
  • Aspiring Law Students to Come to Buffalo for UB's Moot Court Competition
    3/26/09
    Law students from around the country will sharpen their courtroom techniques during Saturday's annual National Criminal Law Moot Court Competition hosted by the University at Buffalo Law School's Criminal Law Society held this year in the Erie County Courthouse.
  • Media Advisory: Oren Lyons Will Give Public Talk at UB Workshop on Indian Nations
    3/25/09
    Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of American Studies at the University at Buffalo, will give a free, public talk today (Wednesday, March 25, 2009) at 7 p.m. on "Indigenous Perspectives on Our Relationship to the Natural World."
  • French Ambassador to Speak on Renewal of U.S.-French Relations at UB in April
    3/25/09
    His Excellency Pierre Vimont, ambassador of France to the United States, will visit the University at Buffalo on April 8 to present a public lecture, "The United States and France and the Renewal of Transatlantic Relations," in which he will discuss the changing nature of relations between the two nations over the past several years.