News Releases

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

  • UB Students Raise Their 41st Buffalo Home for Habitat for Humanity
    6/9/08
    University at Buffalo undergraduate Mindy Underhill straddles a ceiling beam, checking the joists in a home going up on Buffalo's East Side. Underhill, a junior speech and hearing science major from Marilla, N.Y., is one of a team of young women working on what they call "the girls' house." It is one of four new homes being built this year by Habitat for Humanity with major assistance from 36 UB students, and it is the 41st such house since 1990.
  • Meyer Named Fellow in Biomaterials Science and Engineering
    6/6/08
    Anne E. Meyer of Eggertsville, director of the Buffalo site of the Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces (IUCB), has been named a fellow in biomaterials science and engineering by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE).
  • Businesses Describe How They Profit from Partnering with UB
    6/6/08
    At today's University at Buffalo Business Partners Day 2008, UB announced a slate of new, improved ways for business, government and community organizations in Buffalo Niagara and throughout the upstate region to access UB's vast array of top-notch technical resources and talent.
  • UB Recognizes Developers of Drug that Helps Premature Babies Breathe
    6/6/08
    The University at Buffalo has created an annual UB Faculty Entrepreneur Award to recognize faculty who demonstrate the vision and perseverance to translate their discoveries and inventions into products that save lives, relieve suffering or otherwise improve the well-being of individuals and communities.
  • New Technique Developed at UB for Teaching Math to Preschoolers 'Adds Up'
    6/5/08
    A program designed by University at Buffalo researchers to increase mathematics achievement in pre-kindergarten students has proven successful in a large-scale study in Buffalo and Boston.
  • Business First: SmartPill moving component assembly from LA to Buffalo
    6/5/08
    An article in Business First reports SmartPill Corp., a UB research spin-off, has received a boost from key investors for it's plan to move component assembly to Buffalo from Los Angeles.
  • UB's Literacy and Reading Center Accepting Applications for Fall Semester
    6/4/08
    The Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction, affiliated with the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education and dedicated to helping children struggling with reading or writing, is accepting applications for the fall semester.
  • Quake Research to Provide Rare Glimpse of How Structures Collapse
    6/4/08
    Structural engineers at the University at Buffalo are conducting some of the most comprehensive experiments ever attempted to develop methods of evaluating and designing steel buildings so that they will be less vulnerable to collapse during strong earthquakes.
  • UB Pharmacy Students Receive Awards
    6/3/08
    Twenty-five graduates of the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences received awards during the school's recent commencement ceremony.
  • UB on the Green to Begin Second Season of Entertainment on July 22
    6/3/08
    The vast green lawn in front of Hayes Hall on the University at Buffalo's South (Main Street) Campus will once again transform into an entertainment destination this summer as UB opens its second annual performance series for the community, "UB on the Green."