Awards

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

  • UB Grad Programs Ranked Among America's Best by U.S. News & World Report
    3/13/12
    Several University at Buffalo graduate and professional degree programs again were recognized as among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report in its annual ranking of "America's Best Graduate Schools" released today.
  • "Fluid Culture" Continues Its Watery Ways with Authors of International Distinction
    3/12/12
    Fluid Culture, the 2011-12 series presented by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, continues its presentation of art, literature and media events related to water, globalization and culture with three spring lectures by distinguished international authors.
  • A UB Student's Winning Plan to Reimagine a Siberian City
    3/9/12
    Matthew Wattles, a senior in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, and his planning team -- the only Americans among students from around the world to have participated -- were the winners of the 13th session of the International Winter University (WU).
  • Center for the Arts Video Production Group Nominated for 2012 New York Emmy Award
    3/5/12
    The Center for the Arts Video Production Group at the University at Buffalo has been nominated for a 2012 New York Emmy Award. The honor recognizes a promotional video on the Buffalo Philharmonic Youth Concert Series produced by the Center for the Arts Video Production Group and UB's Division of Student Affairs.
  • UB's Ann McElroy Receives Major Award from Society for Applied Anthropology
    3/1/12
    Ann McElroy, PhD, associate professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo, will receive the Society for Applied Anthropology's 2012 Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award in recognition of "long term and truly distinguished service to the Society."
  • UB's Steegmann to Receive 2012 Franz Boas Award from Human Biology Association
    2/29/12
    The Human Biology Association (HBA) has announced that A. Theodore Steegmann Jr., PhD, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University at Buffalo, is the recipient of its 2012 Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award.
  • Second-Year MBAs Capture Top Spot in Case Competition
    2/28/12
    A team of four MBA students in the University at Buffalo School of Management will share a $2,000 prize as winners of the 16th annual UB MBA Case Competition.
  • UB Professor Played Key Role in Developing Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing and Treating Blood Clots
    2/24/12
    A University at Buffalo faculty member has played an important role in the development of new, national guidelines for the prevention and treatment of blood clots (deep vein thromboses and pulmonary embolisms) that have been published by the American College of Chest Physicians.
  • UB Architects Win International Competition With Plan to Give Old Strip Malls Back To the People
    2/23/12
    Two faculty members in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning have won an international design competition with their proposal that the public be given free rein to take over derelict strip mall sites like Buffalo's Central Park Plaza and design and build their own urban communities in a manner that would be, they say, "not unlike the settling of the American frontier."
  • Work By Award-winning UB Architect to Be Featured at International Garden Festival
    2/22/12
    "Buoyant," a garden installation designed by Laura Garofalo, assistant professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has been selected by an international jury to be featured at the 13th International Garden Festival of Les Jardin de Metis (also known as Redford Gardens), in Quebec, Canada, June 23 to Sept. 30.