Awards

News about awards and recognition earned by UB and members of our community. (see all topics)

  • Seven Faculty Members Receive Meyerson Awards
    9/21/12
    The University at Buffalo Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity has been renamed the President Emeritus and Mrs. Martin Meyerson Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring.
  • Media Advisory: Filmmaker, Composer and UB to Honor Bruce Jackson
    9/20/12
    The life's work and accomplishments of University at Buffalo scholar Bruce Jackson will be honored in a special tribute titled "A Celebration of the Arts to Honor Bruce Jackson: Working in Time" on Friday, Sept. 21, from 1-5 p.m. in Slee Hall on the North Campus. A reception in the Center for the Arts Atrium will follow from 5-6 p.m.
  • UB Rises in Rank Among Top National Universities
    9/12/12
    The University at Buffalo is again ranked as one of the best universities in the country, according to the annual "Best Colleges" rankings released today by U.S. News and World Report.
  • UB Consortium Awarded Federal Grant to Advance Innovation and Job Creation
    8/31/12
    The University at Buffalo has been awarded a $349,565 grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to foster innovation, job creation and private capital investment in 10 Western New York counties. The announcement comes as Senator Charles E. Schumer and Congressman Brian Higgins continue to press federal officials to invest in western New York's innovation efforts.
  • UB Physicist Wins Serbia's Prestigious Marko Jaric Award
    8/31/12
    Dejan Stojkovic, an associate professor of physics at the University at Buffalo, has received the Marko Jaric Award, recognized as one of the most prestigious scientific prizes granted to researchers of Serbian origin.
  • UB Nursing Dean Selected for Prestigious Leadership Program
    8/28/12
    Marsha Lewis, PhD, RN, professor and dean of the University at Buffalo School of Nursing was selected by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) for its inaugural class of nursing deans and senior faculty to participate in the first AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program.
  • Hoppity, Hippity, It's Serendipity: UB's Shepard to Present at Venice Architecture Biennale
    8/24/12
    The Venice Architecture Biennale is the most prestigious architecture event in the world, and when the 13th biennale opens on Aug. 29, University at Buffalo innovator Mark Shepard will be there with bells on.
  • Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: Battles Over Segregated Recreation Shaped Civil Rights Movement
    8/23/12
    Victoria W. Wolcott, PhD, associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, is the author of a new book in which she exposes the legacy of segregated recreation in American cities after World War II. The book, "Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America," out this month from the University of Pennsylvania Press, continues Wolcott's research on the African-American experience in the 20th-century urban North.
  • Beta Alpha Psi Receives National Honors
    8/23/12
    The University at Buffalo School of Management's chapter of Beta Alpha Psi was recognized as one of the best in the world, receiving a number of special honors and awards at the organization's international conference in Baltimore in August.
  • UB Chair of Medicine is Honored for Her Distinguished Clinical Research
    8/22/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Anne B. Curtis, MD, Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded the Walter Bleifeld Memorial Award for Distinguished Work in Clinical Research.