News Releases

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

  • UB Establishes Exchange Program with Leading Indian University
    8/14/07
    The University at Buffalo has established a comprehensive exchange program with Banaras Hindu University, one of India's leading comprehensive universities.
  • UB Regional Institute's RKN Adds Transportation & Land Use Data and Maps
    8/10/07
    The Regional Institute has expanded its Regional Knowledge Network (RKN), an online information resource on the binational region of Buffalo Niagara, by adding data and mapping features to its section on Transportation & Land Use.
  • UB Program Improving Care of HIV/AIDS Patients in Zimbabwe
    8/9/07
    The six weeks that graduate student Tinashe Mudzviti spends at the University at Buffalo this summer could help more than 100,000 people with HIV receive life-saving treatments back in his home country of Zimbabwe.
  • Regional Institute Releases Policy Brief on Regional Identity
    8/8/07
    The region some of us call "Western New York" is called "Buffalo Niagara" by many, the "Niagara Frontier" by some and "Greater Buffalo" by others. Still different terms are used to describe areas within the region, such as the "Southern Tier" to the south and "Genesee" for parts between Buffalo and Rochester.
  • "UB Believers" Announce Effort to Better WNY's Future
    8/7/07
    A coalition of business and community leaders has formed a new initiative -- UB Believers -- dedicated to strengthening the Western New York economy today and for future generations through growing the University at Buffalo by 40 percent between now and the year 2020.
  • Bridge Collapse Will Raise Fears and Phobias, Says Expert
    8/3/07
    The bridge collapse in Minneapolis this week raises fears about personal safety in most of us, especially those who have suffered past traumas or from personal safety phobias, according to a University at Buffalo expert on post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • Cartwright Named UB Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives
    8/2/07
    Alexander N. Cartwright, professor of electrical engineering in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been appointed UB's vice provost for strategic initiatives, a new position in which he will serve as the point person in the Provost's Office for the UB 2020 strategic strengths initiatives.
  • HIV Scholars Program Trains Pharmacists in Antiviral Treatments
    7/31/07
    The University at Buffalo HIV Scholars Program has its first graduate: Wen-Liang Lin, a clinical pharmacist at the National Cheng-Kung University Hospital in Taiwan, has completed an extensive period of clinical training in UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and will complete the certificate segment of the program in Taiwan.
  • WBFO Receives 3 National First-Place Public Radio Awards
    7/31/07
    WBFO-FM 88.7, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by the University at Buffalo, won three first place awards for its 2006 news coverage from Public Radio News Directors Inc. at its awards banquet held July 21 in New Orleans.
  • Virtual Rollercoasters are Goal in Engineering Workshop for Girls
    7/30/07
    Instead of visiting an amusement park this summer and riding on rollercoasters, 16 high school girls attending a University at Buffalo engineering workshop will develop their own virtual rollercoasters -- and they will get to "ride" them, too.