News Releases

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

  • Work of UB Scholar Leads to Public Recognition of a Remarkable Life
    10/2/08
    The remarkable story of Jeffrey Brace, an African-born slave who won his freedom after fighting on the side of the colonial army during the American Revolution, might very well have been lost to history but for the work of historian Kari J. Winter, Ph.D., professor of American studies at the University at Buffalo.
  • Statin-Induced Muscle Disorders are Focus of $2.5 Million in Grants from NIH
    10/2/08
    Approximately 200,000 of the 38 million people in the U.S. who take statins to treat high cholesterol may develop life-threatening muscle disease. Currently there is no comprehensive way to identify those who may be at risk for this debilitating condition, but new research by University at Buffalo scientists may correct that situation.
  • Buffalo's 'Uncrowned Community Builders' Technology Site To be Unveiled at Merriweather Library
    10/2/08
    Buffalo's "uncrowned community builders" will be celebrated Oct. 4 in the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr., Library in Buffalo with the unveiling of an interactive technology site that will allow community members to share, read and upload personal histories of unsung community builders.
  • The Derek Trucks Band to Perform at UB Nov. 2
    9/30/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Derek Trucks Band at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Dental School, Area Dentists, Combine Forces to Improve Children's Dental Health
    9/30/08
    Taking children to the dentist is important to their overall health, but for many families in Western New York, dental care is an unaffordable luxury. From Oct. 6-11, however, seeing a dentist will be free or cost little, thanks to 35 dentists in communities throughout Western New Work and at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine.
  • M&T Bank Dance Series to Feature Pilobolus
    9/30/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Pilobolus at 8 p.m. on Nov. 1 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Basinski To Be Featured at Eclectic, Offbeat 2008 UNC Greensboro New Music Festival
    9/25/08
    "City of Webs," a composition by University at Buffalo Music Department alumnus Alejandro Rutty (Ph.D., 2002) based on a text of the same title by Michael Basinski, Ph.D., curator of the UB Poetry Collection, will make its premiere as part of "Unimaginable Music & Unruly Artists," the 2008 New Music Festival to be presented by the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, School of Music Oct. 28-30.
  • Quinan Opens UB's Fall 2008 Architecture and Planning Lecture Series
    9/25/08
    The Fall 2008 Lecture Series sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning will open on Sept. 26 with a talk by architectural historian Jack Quinan, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of art history at UB.
  • Researchers Investigate Impact of Stress on Police Officers' Physical and Mental Health
    9/25/08
    Policing is dangerous work, and the danger lurks not on the streets alone. The pressures of law enforcement put officers at risk for high blood pressure, insomnia, increased levels of destructive stress hormones, heart problems, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide, University at Buffalo researchers have found through a decade of studies of police officers.
  • Center for the Arts to Present Bowfire, the Total String Experience
    9/24/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Bowfire at 8 p.m. on Oct. 21 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored in part by Monaco's Violin Shop and Music Center.