News Releases

Nils Olsen, professor and dean of the University at Buffalo Law School, will receive the 2007 Edwin F. Jaeckle Award, the highest honor the UB Law School and the UB Law Alumni Association can bestow, in recognition of his extraordinary service to the university and the Western New York community.

A $148,328 grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation will establish a multidisciplinary task force for ontology-based IT support for large-scale field studies in psychiatry at the University at Buffalo.

A study aimed at increasing the number of African-American, Hispanic and Asian registered organ donors in New York City and focusing on college students is underway and headed by a researcher at the University at Buffalo.

Unique, brilliant, exceptional in a hundred ways, poet, novelist and critic and Nathaniel Mackey will inaugurate the 2007-08 University at Buffalo English Department "Exhibit X Fiction" series on Nov. 15 with a 7 p.m. reading in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.

MBA students from the University at Buffalo School of Management are finalists in an innovation competition to be held in conjunction with Thunderbird School of Global Management's Sustainable Innovation Summit on Nov. 8-10 at Thunderbird in Glendale, Ariz.

John M. Thomas, dean of the School of Management, will speak at the next "UB at Noon...Downtown" luncheon series to be held from noon to 1:15 p.m. Nov. 14 in Chef's Restaurant, 291 Seneca St.

Training managers to lead in the information-based global economy is the goal of the University at Buffalo School of Management's new MBA concentration in Global Services and Supply Management (GSSM).

International Education Week, the annual event recognizing the importance of international education and exchange to the community and the nation, will take place Nov. 12-16 with a full slate of free events, including film screenings, musical performances, presentations and exhibitions designed showcase the University at Buffalo's cultural diversity.

The new home of the University at Buffalo's Ira G. Ross Eye Institute -- a collaboration of the Department of Ophthalmology in UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the Elizabeth Pierce Olmsted, M.D., Center for the Visually Impaired and University Ophthalmology Services -- opened today at 1176 Main Street.

The Regional Institute at the University at Buffalo has received two national awards for its work from the Association for University Business and Economic Research, a professional association of research units at public and private universities.