News Releases

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

  • Outsourcing Sacrifice: Should Americans Honor the Soldier for Hire?
    2/14/08
    America's increasing use of private military contractors in Iraq and other international battlefields is changing the traditional emotional and psychological relationships between U.S. citizens and those who fight for their country, according to Mateo Taussig-Rubbo, associate professor in the UB Law School.
  • Statement from President Simpson on the shootings at Northern Illinois University
    2/14/08
    John B. Simpson, president of the University at Buffalo, today expressed UB's deepest sympathies to the Northern Illinois University Community in the wake of the campus shootings there and offered UB's assistance to the Northern Illinois, with which UB has strong ties as a member of the Mid-American Conference.
  • Spitzer Says Endowment Fund Will Transform SUNY, Help Realize UB 2020
    2/14/08
    Governor Eliot L. Spitzer made the University at Buffalo his first stop yesterday on a statewide tour to build support for his $4 billion higher-education endowment fund to help make New York State's public higher education system one of the best in the country.
  • Research Expenditures at UB Reach a Record $323 Million
    2/14/08
    Research expenditures at the University at Buffalo across all disciplines reached a record $323.42 million in the 2007 fiscal year (FY 2007) ending last June 30, according to the National Science Foundation's Survey of Research and Development Expenditures at Universities and Colleges.
  • Ability of Statins to Improve Heart Failure is Focus of Research
    2/14/08
    Cardiac researchers at the University at Buffalo have received a four-year, $512,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to investigate how a common cholesterol-lowering drug increases cardiac-muscle cells and helps to stem the progress of heart failure.
  • UB Center Helps Hospital Achieve Major Savings, Transform Culture
    2/14/08
    A continuous improvement program developed at a Pennsylvania hospital in partnership with The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has already saved the hospital $500,000 and earned the UB center the 2007 Award of Excellence in Workforce Development from the University Economic Development Association.
  • UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts to Present the Work of 12 MFA Students
    2/13/08
    Tangential Reform, an exhibition of work by 12 first-year master of fine arts students from the Department of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo, will open on Feb. 288 with a reception from 5-7 p.m. in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Two Immersive Installations by Douglas Repetto to Fill the First Floor Gallery of UB Art Gallery
    2/13/08
    The University at Buffalo Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus will present two large-scale installations by New York City-based artist Douglas Repetto to open with a public reception at 5 p.m. on Feb. 28. An exhibition walkthrough with the artist will begin at 5 p.m.
  • 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.