News Releases

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

  • Jann Arden concert on Feb. 15 postponed
    2/13/08
    The Jann Arden concert scheduled for February 15th in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon.
  • Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour to be held in Center for the Arts
    2/13/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present the Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour at 8 p.m. on March 11 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by Jeffrey M. Goldfarb & Associates.
  • UB Center for the Arts to Present Pink Martini
    2/13/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Pink Martini at 8 p.m. on March 12 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • New Greenland Ice Sheet Data Will Impact Climate Change Models
    2/11/08
    A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.
  • O'Brien Appointed to University at Buffalo Council
    2/11/08
    Christopher J. O'Brien, a principal in the law firm of O'Brien Boyd, has been appointed as a member of the University at Buffalo Council, the university's local governing council, by Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer.
  • 'V-Frog' Virtual-Reality Frog Dissection Software Offers First True Physical Simulation
    2/8/08
    V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education -- allowing not mere observation, but physically simulated dissection -- has been developed and is being marketed by Tactus Technologies
  • Psychic Trauma of Intimate Partner Violence Focus of Athena Project
    2/7/08
    Between 900,000 and 3 million women annually experience violence or abuse by their intimate partners, the U.S. Department of Justice estimates. And while the children in such relationships often receive extensive counseling as a matter of course, support for their mothers may not go beyond providing temporary safe housing. The Athena Project at the University at Buffalo was designed to help correct that scenario.
  • A Dangerous Transition: High School to the First Year of College
    2/7/08
    Increases in young women's drinking during the transition from high school through the first year of college can have dangerous physical, sexual and psychological implications, according to a report out of the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
  • "Building UB" Posterboards on Exhibit on North, South Campuses
    2/7/08
    Twenty-nine different posterboards relating to "Building UB," the University at Buffalo's comprehensive physical plan, are on exhibit at three sites on the North and South campuses to provide members of the university community with another opportunity to see the information and offer their feedback.
  • Center for the Arts to Present International Ambassadors of Irish Music, The Irish Rovers
    2/6/08
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Irish Rovers at 8 p.m. on March 6 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by Monaco's Violin Shop and Music Center.