News Releases

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

  • UB and BlueCross BlueShield Sign Four-Year Agreement to Support Student Scholarships
    10/9/08
    BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York has entered a four-year partnership with the University at Buffalo to create an endowed fund that will provide need-based scholarship support to an incoming freshman undergraduate student from the Buffalo Public Schools. In addition, BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS) will serve as a presenting sponsor of the UB Scholarship Gala, an annual event that raises money for student financial aid.
  • Experts to Discuss U.S. Financial Crisis
    10/9/08
    A panel of experts will discuss the turmoil in the U.S. financial markets at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 23 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • 'Credit Crunch' Will Hit Retirees in Unequal Ways
    10/9/08
    How severely retirees will be affected by the continuing financial crisis and subsequent "credit crunch" depends to a considerable extent on the kinds of retirement plans they rely on for retirement income, according to a University at Buffalo Law School professor who specializes in the regulation of retirement plans and other employee-benefit plans.
  • Similarity of Funeral Rites Among English Settlers and the Carolina Algonquin Is Topic of October "Scholars at Muse" Lecture
    10/8/08
    "Scholars at Muse," the popular new lecture series presented by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute and the Buffalo arts group riverrun, will continue on Oct. 10 at 4 p.m. in the Muse Restaurant of the Albright Knox Art Gallery.
  • Deathways Open Doors to Unexpected Cultural Practices
    10/8/08
    Cremation, "air burial," grave cairns, funeral mounds, mummification, belief in life after death -- death practices sacred to one culture are often considered "odd" or even terrifying by another. In every social group throughout history, the disposal of the dead has special significance, and ways of death always fascinate those on the outside looking in, says a history professor at the University at Buffalo.
  • Ohio Electronics Company Supports New UB Engineering Building and Establishes Fellowship Program
    10/8/08
    Bird Technologies Group has given $200,000 to the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to advance research and education in UB's RF/microwave systems program.
  • $7.6 Million Contract Establishes International HIV/AIDS Clinical Pharmacology Quality Assurance and Quality Control Program and Lab at UB
    10/7/08
    A $7.6 million, seven-year contract awarded to the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo will provide the funds to train in-country laboratory specialists where HIV/AIDS infection rates are highest globally, test their proficiency and conduct quality control analysis of HIV/AIDS clinical trials.
  • What Will the Financial Crisis Mean For 'Corporate Responsibility?'
    10/6/08
    During this historic economic downturn, society's perceptions of financial companies may be undergoing a change, according to UB assistant professor of geography Trina Hamilton, Ph.D., who studies corporate, environmental and social responsibility, global governance and international trade. "The Wall Street crisis could ultimately change the way society views corporate responsibility," says Hamilton.
  • UB Law School Professor Says Beware of Common Misconceptions About the American Election Process
    10/3/08
    University at Buffalo Law School Professor James A. Gardner today cautioned against giving too much importance to charges of voter fraud in American elections and supposed incompetence in administering elections. The process in the overwhelming majority of elections, he says, is working well.
  • $1 Million Gift to Fund Endowed Professorship in Management
    10/3/08
    H. William Lichtenberger has made a $1 million gift to the University at Buffalo School of Management to establish an endowed professorship. The H. William Lichtenberger Professor of Global Services and Supply Management was created to help the UB School of Management attract and retain top talent and build its Global Services and Supply Management program.