News Releases

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

  • Gender Associated with Tourette Syndrome Severity
    4/17/08
    Tourette syndrome(TS), which in childhood is more severe in boys than girls, appears in adulthood to be more severe in women than men, a study by a University at Buffalo neurologist has shown.
  • UB Art Gallery to present the work of five architecture students
    4/17/08
    The University at Buffalo Art Gallery in the UB Center for the Arts will present (In)visible Cities, an exhibition of architectural projects by five students from the UB School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
  • UB Establishes Institute for Jewish Thought, Heritage and Culture
    4/16/08
    The University at Buffalo has established the Institute for Jewish Thought, Heritage and Culture, a multidisciplinary research and academic degree-granting center that will focus scholarship on the critical role that Judaism has played in the development and communication of Western thought.
  • Public Forum to Focus on Concepts for Development of 3 UB Campuses
    4/16/08
    Members of the community, along with University at Buffalo faculty, staff and students, will have an opportunity to provide feedback on specific concepts for future development of the university's North, South and Downtown campuses at a day-long forum to be held on April 22.
  • UB Economists Provide Revenue Forecasts to State Comptroller
    4/15/08
    Tax revenue forecasts by University at Buffalo economist Isaac Ehrlich, Ph.D., and researchers in UB's Center of Excellence on Human Capital, Technology Transfer, and Economic Growth and Development may play a major role in future budget negotiations in determining how much the state has to spend.
  • Second UB Classics Student Receives Prestigious Rome Prize
    4/15/08
    For the second year in a row, a doctoral student in the University at Buffalo Department of Classics has received a rare pre-doctoral Rome Prize to fund research in ancient studies at the American Academy in Rome.
  • Smyth Elected President of National Social Work Group
    4/14/08
    Nancy J. Smyth, dean of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, has been elected to a two-year term as president of the St. Louis Group, an association of the country's outstanding graduate schools of social work.
  • Regional Institute Releases Policy Brief on Reading the Region's Economy
    4/11/08
    Traditional methods of interpreting regional economic conditions, such as employment data, paint a useful but incomplete picture of economic change in the 21st century, according to the University at Buffalo Regional Institute's latest Policy Brief, "Grasping the New Economy."
  • 'Great Place to Work' Movement Hits Higher Ed
    4/10/08
    Colleges and universities don't usually focus on improving their status as "great places to work." Conventional wisdom says a college campus naturally provides a great work environment: There's constant intellectual stimulation, access to campus facilities and family-friendly work hours. At the University at Buffalo, Scott Nostaja is one of the few in higher education who is putting conventional wisdom to the test.
  • Award Goes to UB Professor for Biography of Celebrated 18th-Century Clown
    4/9/08
    The Royal Society of Literature and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation has presented its £10,000 ($19,946) annual award for non-fiction to Andrew Stott, Ph.D., associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo.