News Releases

An article in The Buffalo News looks at a UB report calling on New York State to begin planning for wind power development in Lake Erie and quotes Robert Berger, professor of law and director of the Environment and Development Clinic in the Law School. The report also is the subject of an article in Business First and on WIVB-TV, Channel 4.

Twenty-eight students were honored for being the outstanding graduating senior in departments within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo's 162nd general commencement ceremony held on May 11.

A story on WBFO today looks at the efforts of the Wind Action Group, which is pushing for offshore wind power in the region, and Robert Berger, professor of law, who has put together a report that says the state should mandate that any wind turbines to be erected in Western New York also be manufactured in the area.

New York State should take advantage of a golden opportunity to become a leader in developing clean, renewable offshore wind power, an alternative energy source that could trigger an economic renaissance and a greener image for the Western New York community, according to a report by a University at Buffalo Law School clinic.

Arjang A. Assad, professor of management science and Dean's Professor for Extraordinary Service in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, has been named dean of the University at Buffalo School of Management. His appointment will be effective Aug. 1, 2008.

More than 130 teachers from Western New York high schools are now using a Web-based curriculum called MoneySKILL™ to help their students develop personal finance skills, thanks to outreach efforts by the University at Buffalo School of Management and M&T Bank.

A "direct-to-consumer" advertising (DTCA) campaign shown on network television over the past six months touting the benefits of a specific stent device used to prop open clogged arteries should be viewed as "potentially deceptive," asserts a commentary co-authored by a University at Buffalo cardiologist in the current on-line issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Fourteen graduates of the University at Buffalo School of Management received awards during the school's commencement ceremony on May 10.

WBFO 88.7 FM, a major public service of the University at Buffalo, has been awarded a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities to help support the station's "Meet the Author" series.

An alumnus of the University at Buffalo considered a visionary leader in the pharmaceutical industry is giving back once again to the institution that three decades ago provided a fellowship that helped him to earn a doctoral degree and begin his highly successful career.