News Releases

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

  • Forum Seeks Input on How UB Can Achieve Climate Neutrality
    10/15/08
    In less than a year, the University at Buffalo -- along with hundreds of other colleges and universities nationwide -- will publicly release an institutional action plan describing how UB will go "climate-neutral," reducing or offsetting all of its greenhouse gas emissions. Development and release of the plan is required of all signatories of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, which UB President John B. Simpson signed in March 2007.
  • Filiatrault Elected MCEER Director
    10/14/08
    Andre Filiatrault, Ph.D., Eng., a professor at the University at Buffalo and leading expert on shake-table testing of structural and nonstructural building components, has been elected to a two-year term as director of MCEER, a national center of excellence focused on multi-hazard engineering, headquartered at UB.
  • Internationally Known Author, Nursing Researcher to Present 2008 Bullough Lecture
    10/14/08
    Patricia E. Benner, Ph.D., an internationally known nurse-researcher and lecturer, will present the UB School of Nursing's 12th Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 in the Adams Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo.
  • Using Social Media to Inspire College Students to Join Organ Donor Registry is Aim of New Grant
    10/14/08
    New York State's registry of residents willing to donate their organs and tissue if they are fatally injured lags behind those of states with less population and newer registries. Only 7 percent of New York residents have signed formally onto the state's electronic registry. A University at Buffalo specialist in health communication wants to change that.
  • UB Rolls Out the 'Blue Carpet' For True Blue Weekend, Oct. 16-19
    10/14/08
    The University at Buffalo will roll out the blue carpet for more than 30,000 people -- more even than gathered at the UB Stadium in 2006 for the speech by His Holiness the Dalai Lama -- when it celebrates True Blue Weekend Oct. 16-19.
  • CSI UB
    10/13/08
    Think of University at Buffalo Law School Professor Charles Patrick Ewing's newest book this way: Imagine a front-row seat to some of the country's most intriguing court cases, courtesy of Ewing, one of the country's leading experts on the criminal mind, who draws on up-close-and-personal details from his 30 years of experience.
  • 1,300 Area High School Students Will Hear 'The Kite Runner' Author Speak
    10/13/08
    More than 1,300 Western New York high school students will be guests of the University at Buffalo at a lecture by Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner," the harrowing and heartbreaking tale of two young Afghanistani boys caught in the nightmare of their country's destruction.
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters to Share Financial Literacy
    10/13/08
    The University at Buffalo School of Management will be bringing the MoneySKILL financial literacy program to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County.
  • UB to Host Open House for Minority and Women Entrepreneurs
    10/13/08
    The University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) will host an information session for women and minority business owners interested in applying for the 2009 Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs (MWEE) program.
  • UB to Host College Computing Fair for Students Interested in Computer Science
    10/13/08
    The Western New York chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) will hold a College Computing Fair on Oct. 15 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.