News Releases

The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning will present a panel discussion on March 17 featuring Craig Borum and Ken Daubmann of the collaborative firm of PLY Architecture.

Up to 20 percent of patients taking aspirin to lower the risk of suffering a second cerebrovascular event do not have an antiplatelet response from aspirin, the effect thought to produce the protective effect, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.

The University at Buffalo School of Management Alumni Association (SOMAA) will hold a breakfast seminar exploring cyber security for small businesses and nonprofit organizations from 7:30-9:30 a.m. on March 19 in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

A free talk on "Putting Spin into Electronics: Vision for the Future" will be held on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in 112 Norton Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Open to the public, this "user-friendly" lecture will focus on spintronics, a subfield of physics, in which UB is an international leader.

American politics and federal tax law draw on outdated notions of the American family that continue to promote gender inequality and undermine the middle class, according to a University at Buffalo Law School professor.

As part of a national program to help internationalize higher education in that country, one of Vietnam's most competitive universities has entered into a partnership with the University at Buffalo to begin teaching UB's undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum to its own students next fall.

It's not unusual for a law professor to write a book about corporate law, but it is unusual that such a book would be so well received by social scientists and legal scholars alike. This is the case with "Between Citizen and State: An Introduction to the Corporation" by David A. Westbrook of the University at Buffalo Law School.

Magazine editor and author Tina Brown will speak at 8 p.m. March 5 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus as part of UB's Distinguished Speakers Series.

Last summer, graduate students in urban planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and the University of Stuttgart in Germany worked collaboratively to produce a planning proposal designed to promote the expansion of Buffalo's green infrastructure and its economic prosperity while offering a new landscape-planning methodology in response to the destructive October 2006 storm.

The doctor who wouldn't come into the patient's hospital room. The neurologist who avoided eye contact. The ambulance attendant who angrily threw her bloodied gloves into the street after learning the injured patient was HIV-positive. These are reactions of some health-care personnel when faced with caring for persons infected with HIV more than 25 years after its discovery and documented in a study a University at Buffalo assistant professor of communication and health behavior.