Media Advisories

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

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  • Media Advisory: SUNY Chancellor to hold news briefing today at UB
    6/23/09
    Nancy Zimpher, who became chancellor of the State University of New York system on June 1, will be available to speak to Buffalo-area media at a briefing to be held at 1:30 p.m. today (Tuesday, June 23) in the lobby of Harriman Hall on the University at Buffalo's South (Main Street) Campus.
  • Media Advisory: Workshop on teaching economic skills to victims of domestic violence to be held at UB
    6/22/09
    The University at Buffalo Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and The Allstate Foundation will cosponsor a workshop aimed at providing social service practitioners with strategies to help domestic violence victims understand their financial circumstances and develop plans to leave. The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today (Monday, June 22, 2009) in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Media Advisory: Media Invited to Attend Private Opening Reception of "Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection"
    6/12/09
    The University at Buffalo will kick off an exhibition of the works of one of the world's most iconic and idiosyncratic literary figures, James Joyce, at a private opening reception to be held at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, June 13, 2009) in UB's Anderson Gallery, One Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory/News Conference: National Grid to Announce Gift to UB
    6/8/09
    National Grid CEO Steve Holliday will join University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and UB Engineering Dean Harvey Stenger at a news conference to announce a gift to the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
  • Media Advisory: WNY's Student Digital Video Academy Awards Festival Returns Tonight to Downtown
    6/4/09
    The area's best student digital videographers and their teachers will gather to view each other's work and celebrate an emerging educational art form at the City Voices, City Visions Awards ceremony beginning 5 p.m. today (June 4, 2009) in the Market Arcade Cinemas, 639 Main St.
  • Media Advisory: President Simpson and Senator Stachowski to Discuss State Senate's Passage of UB 2020 Bill
    6/4/09
    University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson and New York State Senator William T. Stachowski will hold a media briefing to discuss the New York State Senate's passage yesterday of the UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act.
  • Media Advisory: UB Business Partners Day 2009 to Show How Local Businesses Benefit When They Partner with UB
    6/3/09
    More than 500 representatives of local and regional companies and organizations will have the opportunity to learn about the many diverse university-industry partnerships that are revitalizing Buffalo Niagara at UB Business Partners Day 2009 to be held beginning at 9 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday, June 4, 2009) in the Adam's Mark Hotel in Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: President Simpson and Senator Stachowski to Discuss Senate's Passage of UB 2020 Bill
    6/3/09
    University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson and New York State Senator William T. Stachowski will hold a media briefing to discuss the New York State Senate's passage today of the UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act.
  • Media Advisory: Sweet Home Students Rally for UB's Tanzanian Girls School Project
    6/2/09
    Students from Sweet Home High School will welcome the Chuma Chuma African Dance Troupe at a fundraiser from 6-8 p.m. today (June 2, 2009) for a student-led campaign to raise money for a girls school in Tanzania. The Buffalo-based adult dance troupe will perform at Sweet Home High School at 1901 Sweet Home Rd., Amherst.
  • Media Advisory: Kenyan Prime Minister to Speak at Niagara Falls, Gives UB Law School Commencement Speech
    5/22/09
    Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga will make his first trip to the U.S. since the election of President Barack Obama tomorrow (Saturday, May 23) when he will make remarks and answer questions from the media from 9-11 a.m. at the Top of the Falls Restaurant on Goat Island in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and then give the University at Buffalo Law School commencement address 3 p.m.