News Releases

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

  • The New American Nightmare: A UB Law School professor examines the causes, solutions of the American home foreclosure crisis
    1/14/09
    Stuart Lazar, an associate professor in the University at Buffalo Law School concentrating in tax law, has expertise and insight into the new American nightmare: losing your home.
  • Seventh Annual "Give Kids a Smile" Day Set for Feb. 6
    1/13/09
    Children from across Western New York who don't have access to dental care will receive free treatment Feb. 6 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine's seventh annual "Give Kids a Smile" day.
  • UB Dental School's Oral Biology Department wins ADEA Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Academic Dental Institution
    1/13/09
    The University at Buffalo's Department of Oral Biology, the first established in the nation, has won the 2009 William J. Gies Award for outstanding achievement by an academic dental institution.
  • By Going "Trayless," UB Student Dining Centers Will Reduce Food Waste 50 Percent
    1/13/09
    Starting this week, students in three dining centers on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus will be carrying individual plates -- not trays -- to their tables as part of UB's effort to go "trayless."
  • Campus-wide computing services outage
    1/12/09
    A campus-wide computing services outage has affected all UB computing services since 2 p.m. today. UB's IT staff expects many of the services to be back online by 4:15 p.m. today. The remaining services should be restored this evening.
  • UB's Garofalo Receives Award from American Collegiate Schools of Architecture
    1/9/09
    Laura Garofalo, assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, has received a 2008-09 Architectural Education Award from the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
  • Linguist Matthew Dryer Receives Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
    1/9/09
    Matthew S. Dryer, Ph.D., of Amherst, professor in the Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has received a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which each year honors renowned scientists and scholars from abroad.
  • Six UB Faculty Members Named SUNY Distinguished Professors
    1/8/09
    Six University at Buffalo faculty members have been named State University of New York Distinguished Professors, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.
  • Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Honored
    1/8/09
    Williamsville resident Julie S. Waldron has been named "Protege of the Year" by the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program, a joint venture by the University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and the UB Center for Urban Studies.
  • $5 Million UB Center Will Advance New Assistive Technology Concepts to Research, Useful Products
    1/8/09
    In the tech-savvy 21st century, university-based researchers generate many new ideas and discoveries. However, society now expects technology-oriented research to be applied in practice by clinicians, policy-makers, manufacturers, consumers and information brokers. The new Center on Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer (KT4TT) at the University at Buffalo offers one response to that challenge.