News Releases

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

  • UB Physicists Celebrate LHC Startup, Decades After Its Inception
    9/10/08
    Particle physicists don't ordinarily have a reputation as the most effusive bunch in the world but University at Buffalo physicists, along with their colleagues all over the planet, are positively exuberant about the Sept. 10 debut of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the European Center for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, the most powerful particle physics accelerator ever built.
  • Thomas to Direct HSBC Center in UB School of Management
    9/9/08
    John M. Thomas, professor of operations management and strategy in the University at Buffalo School of Management, has been named director of the school's HSBC Center for Global Business Leadership (HSBC Center).
  • UB Invests $5.3 Million to Improve Campus Safety
    9/9/08
    The University at Buffalo is working closely with students, neighborhood leaders and the City of Buffalo to provide a safe and secure environment on its South (Main Street) Campus.
  • Black Holes and the Large Hadron Collider, No Worries
    9/9/08
    No, the startup of the Large Hadron Collider this week won't create a massive black hole that will wipe out life on Earth as we know it, according to University at Buffalo assistant professor of physics Dejan Stojkovic.
  • How Women Urban Builders Collaborated to Remake their Environment
    9/5/08
    "The modern city and the modern woman invented each other," says architectural historian Despina Stratigakos, a fact she says is clearly demonstrated in Berlin, a city that women began to claim as their own in bold and dramatic ways at the turn of the 20th century.
  • Wesley Clark to Replace John Edwards in Debate with Rove
    9/5/08
    General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army (Ret.), will join Karl Rove for this month's UB Distinguished Speakers Series (DSS) election debate. The program is scheduled for 8 p.m. Sept. 26 in Alumni Arena on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Golisano Named 'Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year'
    9/5/08
    B. Thomas Golisano, chairman of the board and founder of Paychex Inc. and owner of the Buffalo Sabres, has been named the 2008 Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year by the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Nancy Nielsen, AMA President, UB Medical Education Dean, to Inaugurate O.P. Jones Lecture
    9/4/08
    Nancy H. Nielsen, Ph.D., M.D., president of the American Medical Association and senior associate dean for medical education at the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will present the inaugural Oliver P. "O.P." Jones, M.D., '56, Endowed Lectureship in Medical Education Sept. 19.
  • UB's Incoming Law School Class Among the Best Ever
    9/4/08
    The University at Buffalo Law School this semester welcomes one of its most accomplished and selective classes in its 120-year history, a group of students Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua called a "breakthrough" for UB Law and the foundation on which to make UB one of the finest law schools in the country.
  • CFA to Host "The Most Trusted Stranger in America" on Oct. 9
    9/4/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Frank Warren -- PostSecret Founder at 8 p.m. on Oct. 9 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.