News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Law School's International Network Fights Domestic Violence
    6/17/08
    Two University at Buffalo Law School professors have taken steps to make the school a world-renowned center for confronting what they call the epidemic of domestic-violence crimes, locally and internationally, using their teaching positions to coordinate a network of domestic violence advocacy that so far reaches from the classrooms of UB's O'Brian Hall to at least two other continents.
  • Exhibit of Work by NLXL to Be on View July 1-25 in UB Art Gallery
    6/16/08
    The University at Buffalo Art Gallery will present an exhibition featuring graphic posters and an interactive, multimedia installation by NLXL, a design studio for visual communication and interaction design based in The Hague, July 1-25.
  • Fluorescent-Probe in Worm Creates Real-Time "View" of Cellular Stress
    6/16/08
    Scientists at the University at Buffalo have created a mutant worm that changes color when it moves. The color change is generated by an optical sensor called stFRET. The sensor is composed of a pair of fluorescent molecules connected by a molecular spring that is inserted into structural proteins in the worm's cells.
  • Well-Restored Waterways Attract Engineers and Scientists to Region
    6/13/08
    Professional engineers and scientists from New York and other states are attending an annual University at Buffalo workshop this month to learn from Western New York's experiences about how best to restore streams and other waterways so they can be enjoyed for generations.
  • Latinistae Will Gather in Buffalo to Speak in Tongue
    6/12/08
    Latin speakers have few opportunities to get together with their peers for a good yak. That's because, dead or alive, Latin is taught to be read, not spoken. But plenty of garrire et blaterare (babble and chat) will take place the weekend of June 27-29 at the Conventiculum Buffaloniense: The Buffalo Spoken Latin Workshop, sponsored by the University at Buffalo Department of Classics.