Media Advisories

News about upcoming UB events that may be of interest to the media.

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  • Media Advisory: Bill Maher to Speak at UB Saturday
    4/23/10
    Political humorist Bill Maher, host of the Emmy-nominated series "Real Time with Bill Maher," will speak at the University at Buffalo at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 24, in Alumni Arena as part of UB's Distinguished Speakers Series.
  • Media Advisory: UB Architecture Students Put Up "Living Wall" at Griffis Sculpture Park
    4/23/10
    "The Living Wall," a series of 14 "interactive" pods designed by UB first year undergraduate architecture students, will open to the public this weekend.
  • Media Advisory: Designer for Solar Installation on UB North Campus to be Introduced April 22
    4/21/10
    UB President John B. Simpson and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) will introduce the winning designer of an innovative solar installation to be constructed on UB's North Campus at event to be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 22, in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Clifton Hall, 1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: UB Architecture Students To Present Memorial Bench Honoring Firefighters Chip McCarthy and Jonathan Croom at 7:30 p.m. Tonight
    4/16/10
    A memorial bench designed and built by students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning in honor of firefighters Charles "Chip" McCarthy and Jonathan Croom who died Aug. 24, 2009 in a Genesee Street fire will be presented to Buffalo Fire Department Ladder 7 and Engine 34 Firehouse, 2738 Main St., in the University District, at 7:30 p.m. April 16.
  • Media Advisory: "Simple" designs that promote and provoke sustainability and social change
    4/12/10
    The public is largely unaware of an important movement among artists of all stripes advocating for sustainable agriculture, products and services. Students and faculty members in the University at Buffalo departments of visual studies, media study, architecture and planning are among those deeply involved in this movement.
  • Media Advisory: Wolf Blitzer to be Available for Interviews
    4/8/10
    Wolf Blitzer, CNN's award-winning lead political anchor and host of "The Situation Room," will be available to talk with local media from 5:30-5:45 p.m. tomorrow (Friday, April 9) in Slee Hall's Green Room, 208 Slee Hall, on the UB North Campus.
  • Media Advisory: Prize-winning Conversation -- Nobel Laureate Chats With UB and HWI Students
    4/7/10
    Students in the sciences at the University at Buffalo and Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute will have a chance to chat with 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Ada E. Yonath April 8 at 4:40 p.m. in the UB Center for the Arts atrium on the North Campus.
  • Media Advisory: UB Scholars of Excellence Luncheon Honors Some of University's Best and Brightest
    4/1/10
    Some of the University at Buffalo's best and brightest undergraduate students who have won or been nominated for prestigious, national scholarships will be honored at UB's Scholars of Excellence Luncheon today, April 1, in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
  • Media Advisory: Small businesses to attend UB seminar, "They are Interested, What Next?"
    3/30/10
    A dozen Western New York companies will attend a presentation by Judy Albers of Excell Partners Inc. titled "They are Interested, What Next?" on Wednesday, March 31, from 8:30-10 a.m. in rooms 206 and 208 of the UB Technology Incubator in Baird Research Park, 1576 Sweet Home Rd., Amherst.
  • Media Advisory: UB President John Simpson to Hold News Conference Today
    3/29/10
    University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. today, March 29.

    He will discuss threats to the UB 2020 plan in the wake of current and projected budget cuts, and their impact on UB and all of Western New York.

    Where: UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicott St. in Buffalo.

    On site media contact: John DellaContrada, 361-3006