News Releases

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

  • Faculty Experts Featured In Free UBThisSummer Lecture Series
    5/1/08
    Members of the local community are invited to participate this summer in the University at Buffalo's 2008 UBThisSummer Lecture Series, "Our World Community: Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future," in which UB's internationally renowned faculty will share their expertise on a variety of topics.
  • Lyme Disease Expert to Lecture at UB's Health Sciences Library
    4/30/08
    John J. Halperin, M.D., world-renowned authority on Lyme disease, will deliver the 17th annual C.K. Huang Lecture, "Lyme Disease: Facts and Myths," at 7 p.m. May 16 in the Austin Flint Reading Room of the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library in Abbott Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.
  • Study Describes Mechanism Linking Alcohol with Risk of Breast Cancer
    4/30/08
    The known association of alcohol consumption with an increased risk of breast cancer has been linked by researchers at the University at Buffalo to a process that causes genes that promote normal cell growth to produce proteins that precipitate unregulated cell growth, an action known as hypermethylation.
  • Ulbrich Named Director of UB Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
    4/30/08
    The University at Buffalo School of Management has named Thomas R. Ulbrich director of its Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL).
  • Best-Selling Author, Buffalo Native, Is Spring Clinical Day Speaker
    4/29/08
    Buffalo native Michael F. Roizen, M.D., best-selling author, cohost of "Discovery Health," cofounder of RealAge, Inc., and chairman of its scientific advisory board, will be the featured speaker at the 2008 Spring Clinical Day sponsored by the University at Buffalo Medical Alumni Association on May 3.
  • Legal History Project Includes 3 UB Law School Contributors
    4/29/08
    Three University at Buffalo Law School professors -- one per volume -- are represented in a project its publisher calls "the most comprehensive and authoritative account possible of the history of American law."
  • UB Planners Win International Award for East Side Development Work
    4/28/08
    The University at Buffalo East Side Neighborhood Transformation Partnership (ESNTP), a 2-year-old, university-assisted approach to the regeneration of Buffalo's Fruit Belt and Martin Luther King, Jr., Park communities, has received the 2008 Outstanding Program Award from the international Community Development Society.
  • Luehrsen Named Assistant Vice President at University at Buffalo
    4/28/08
    Althea Luehrsen, executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) in the University at Buffalo School of Management since 2001, has been named assistant vice president of corporate and foundation relations at the university.
  • High-Tech Information Studies Class Creates E.B. Green Digital Library
    4/28/08
    A user-friendly and interactive digital library featuring the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society's archival collection of works of renowned architects E.B. Green and William S. Wicks is the latest creation of a University at Buffalo's Library and Information Studies course with a proven track record of providing international access to Western New York research material.
  • Less Geek, More Citizen: Computer Scientists Push Social Relevance
    4/28/08
    Michael F. Buckley, a University at Buffalo computer science lecturer, is leading a national movement to change the way computer science is taught in college. His students learn about Buddhism. They read "The Tao of Pooh." They visit a center for children with disabilities and are asked to design technologies that can improve the way these children live and learn.