News Releases

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

  • Source of Power Outage Identified
    6/24/08
    UB Facilities has identified a fault in an underground power cable as the source of a Monday morning power outage on UB's South Campus.
  • 3 Buffalo Public Schools Seniors Awarded UB Tuition Scholarships
    6/24/08
    The Buffalo Partnership Scholars Program has chosen three outstanding Buffalo Public Schools graduating seniors to receive full four-year tuition scholarships at the University at Buffalo.
  • Election Forecasters Preparing For Historic Election
    6/20/08
    Anticipating what is likely to be one of the most interesting elections in modern history, University at Buffalo professor of political science James E. Campbell and Michael S. Lewis-Beck, professor of political science at the University of Iowa, have assembled the insights of prominent election forecasters in a special issue of the International Journal of Forecasting published this month.
  • Propelled By Its Reputation, UB Poetry Collection Hits the Road
    6/19/08
    Founded more than 70 years ago, the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection was the first to archive the manuscripts and artifacts of living writers, many of them largely unknown outside their field and some of whom were considered outrageous. Today they are famous and however wild and wooly it was when archived, this enormous trove of material written on the vanguard is "ripe" today and widely accepted as seminal to some of the most important movements and literary forms of the 20th century.
  • Explore the Arts Theatrical Arts Summer Program for Children to be held July 7-11
    6/19/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will offer Explore the Arts, its theatrical arts summer program for children entering grades 5-8 July 7-11 in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Registration and fee are required.
  • Gerber Receives National U.S. Postal Service Award for Research
    6/19/08
    How did 19th-century immigrants maintain relationships with loved ones thousands of miles away, much less preserve ties with pasts rooted in places they had left voluntarily? In his critically acclaimed book, "Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century," David A. Gerber, Ph.D., analyzes the cycle of correspondence between immigrants and their homelands to uncover the critical role played by letters in reformulating personal relationships made vulnerable by separation.
  • UB Pharmacy School Names Fiebelkorn Teacher of the Year
    6/19/08
    Karl D. Fiebelkorn of Getzville, associate dean for student affairs and professional relations in the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, received the 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award at the pharmacy school's recent commencement ceremony.
  • UB School of Social Work Students Receive Awards
    6/19/08
    Seventeen students attending the University at Buffalo School of Social Work received awards during the school's recent commencement ceremony.
  • UB Chemist's Diligence Leads to Corrections in Scientific Press
    6/17/08
    Experiments conducted in the laboratory of University at Buffalo chemist John P. Richard were spotlighted recently in the national scientific press, including a news article in the journal Nature, because they led to the retractions of two important scientific papers.
  • To Find Out What's Eating Bats, Biologist Takes to Barn Rooftops
    6/17/08
    Bloodsucking pests like bat fleas and bat flies may not sound very appealing to the rest of us, but to University at Buffalo biologist Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz, Ph.D., they are among the most successful creatures evolution has ever produced.