Media Advisories

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

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  • Media Advisory: UB's CSTEP Program to hold Day of Service at Grover Cleveland High School
    4/1/09
    The Collegiate Science & Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) at the University at Buffalo will hold its third annual Day of Service from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today (Wednesday, April 1, 2009) at Grover Cleveland High School, 110 14th Street, Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: Who Are The Extraterrestrials Among Us? Whales!
    3/26/09
    Quick: name one mammal that looks anything like a whale. You can't. Modern whales are at the same time mammals and "real-life" extraterrestrials who have adapted to life in the water. That's according to University of Michigan Professor Philip D. Gingerich, who is an expert on whales and how they evolved. He conducts fieldwork in the deserts of Pakistan and Egypt where he has discovered skeletons linking whales to land animals.
  • Media Advisory: Oren Lyons Will Give Public Talk at UB Workshop on Indian Nations
    3/25/09
    Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of American Studies at the University at Buffalo, will give a free, public talk today (Wednesday, March 25, 2009) at 7 p.m. on "Indigenous Perspectives on Our Relationship to the Natural World."
  • Media Advisory: Take a Virtual "Spin" in UB's Driving Simulator
    3/20/09
    Members of the media are invited to go for a virtual "spin" in the University at Buffalo's driving simulator, which now sports a real front end.
  • Media Advisory: Learning How the Brain Works
    3/19/09
    Fourth-graders in Buffalo's Highgate Heights Elementary School, PS 80, will get a fun look at how the brain works today (Thursday, March 19, 2009) provided by neuroscience graduate students at the University at Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: Alternative Spring Break at UB
    3/9/09
    Cancel Cancun. Forget Florida. Some University at Buffalo students will be spending spring break right here in Buffalo, working to improve their community.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Host Screening of Afghan War Documentary
    3/9/09
    The public is invited to attend a showing of the independently produced documentary "At War" and meet the videographer and director Scott Kesterson Monday at the University at Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: What Do Gumdrops, Cities and Canoes Have in Common?
    3/6/09
    Five hundred middle-school girls from all over Western New York will participate in Tech-Savvy, a day-long series of entertaining, hands-on workshops to show girls how much fun they can have while studying science and technology.
  • Media Advisory: Invented In Buffalo
    3/4/09
    More than 30 of the University at Buffalo's best and brightest inventors will be honored Thursday, March 5 at the UB Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception to be held at 4 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow on UB's North Campus.