News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • 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.