News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • 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.