News Releases

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

  • Psychologist Says Neurochemical Processes Explain Romantic Attraction
    2/10/07
    A University at Buffalo psychologist says it's a series of neurochemical processes and external stimuli that that have to come together in a precise way -- not aphrodisiacs and other elements --that explain the beginning of a romantic relationship.
  • Community Input Sought on UB Athletics Programs
    2/9/07
    A committee studying the future of the University at Buffalo's intercollegiate athletics programs has scheduled two meetings -- on Feb. 22 and Feb. 27 -- to obtain input from the community.
  • UB Job-Recruitment System Goes Online
    2/8/07
    UB Jobs, the new Web-based position-description and employment-application system for faculty, staff and administrative positions funded through the state, Research Foundation and UB Foundation, is up and running, and should improve greatly the experience for those hiring employees, as well as those looking for jobs.
  • Author Gunther to Speak on "Compassionate Capitalism"
    2/7/07
    Author Marc Gunther will speak on "Compassionate Capitalism: How Corporate America is Changing for the Better" at 7:30 p.m. March 27 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Shibley Named to Federal Erie Canal Heritage Commission
    2/7/07
    Robert Shibley, professor of architecture and planning, as well as director of The Urban Design Project in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne to serve a three-year term on the Federal Commission on the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.
  • Children of the Holocaust -- Film Considers Their "Hidden Things"
    2/7/07
    Award-winning filmmaker Elliot B. Caplan will open the Spring 2007 Humanities Institute Lecture Series at the University at Buffalo with his new feature-length documentary film, "Hidden Things: A Children's Story."
  • FASB Member to Speak as Part of Sufrin Lecture Series
    2/6/07
    Thomas J. Linsmeier, a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), will speak on "Financial Reporting Issues Facing the FASB" at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in the Center for Tomorrow on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Series Features Leading American, Spanish and British Architects
    2/6/07
    The School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, which annually brings more than 20 major national and international architects and regional and urban planners to Buffalo as speakers, has announced its 2007 Spring Lecture Series. They include stars in the architectural firmament from the U.S., Spain and Britain.
  • Cutting Edge Lecture Series Looks at Murder, Global Warming, Digitized Art and Architecture, World Poverty
    2/6/07
    Top University at Buffalo professors will make presentations aimed at increasing public awareness of rapidly advancing fields in the 2007 Cutting Edge Lecture Series, five Saturday-morning seminars sponsored by UB's College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Proposals for "Universal Art Center" Subject of UB Exhibit
    2/6/07
    "Southpoint: from Ruin to Rejuvenation," is a traveling exhibition of jury-selected entries in a 2006 competition for proposals for a Universal Arts Center on the site of the Renwick Smallpox Hospital ruin in Southpoint Park on New York City's Roosevelt Island. The exhibition, which opened the Spring 2007 Exhibition Series sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, will run through Feb. 16 in the school's James Dyett Gallery.