Media Advisories

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

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  • Media Advisory: Aspiring Engineers to Discover UB's North Campus Is the "Final Frontier"
    5/22/09
    Seventy of Western New York's best and brightest high school students will flex their mental muscles as they compete in the Star Trek-themed BEAMTREK on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus tomorrow (Saturday, May 23, 2009) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Unveil Plans to Construct New Building Downtown
    5/21/09
    The University at Buffalo will announce plans to build a new home in downtown Buffalo for its Educational Opportunity Center at an unveiling to be held at 11 a.m. Friday (May 22) in the parking lot of the former M. Wile building at 77 Goodell St., Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: Kenyan Prime Minister to Speak at Niagara Falls, Gives UB Law School Commencement Speech
    5/19/09
    Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga will make his first trip to the U.S. since the election of President Barack Obama on 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. that day.
  • Media Advisory: How Can Green Energy Bring More Green -- the Other Kind -- to Buffalo Niagara?
    5/14/09
    Dozens of investors and venture capitalists from around the state will learn about pioneering clean energy technologies being developed in Buffalo Niagara by researchers at the University at Buffalo and local companies when they attend the Explore Buffalo Niagara 2009 Investor and Entrepreneur Energy Forum to be held today (Thursday, May 14, 2009) in UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicott Street, Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: How Can Green Energy Bring More Green -- the Other Kind -- to Buffalo Niagara?
    5/13/09
    Dozens of investors and venture capitalists from around the state will learn about pioneering clean energy technologies being developed in Buffalo Niagara by researchers at the University at Buffalo and local companies when they attend the Explore Buffalo Niagara 2009 Investor and Entrepreneur Energy Forum to be held tomorrow (Thursday, May 14, 2009) in UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicott Street, Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: UB Celebrates 163rd General Commencement Sunday
    5/8/09
    Faces will be beaming and flashbulbs will be popping when roughly 5,300 students "walk" and receive their degrees at the University at Buffalo's 163rd general commencement ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 10, 2009, in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Media Advisory: Sunlight to Power UB
    5/7/09
    The University at Buffalo and the New York Power Authority will announce a major, multi-million-dollar project to construct a major, solar-energy array to provide power to the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Media Advisory: UB, NYPA to Announce Multi-Million-Dollar Award to Allow Sunlight to Power UB
    5/6/09
    The University at Buffalo and the New York Power Authority will announce receipt of a major, multi-million-dollar award from NYPA to construct a major, solar-energy array to provide power to the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Media Advisory: UB Urban Planning Grad Students to Present "Queen City Gardens Plan" Produced for City of Buffalo
    5/5/09
    The preliminary findings of the "Queen City Gardens Plan" -- planning and policy strategies for creating and sustaining community gardens in the City of Buffalo -- will be presented to the public at 5:30 p.m. today (Tuesday, May 5, 2009) in 230 Hayes Hall on the University at Buffalo South (Main Street) Campus.
  • Media Advisory: UB's Media Study Department to Celebrate 35th Anniversary
    5/1/09
    The University at Buffalo Department of Media Study -- widely considered the birthplace of modern media study -- will mark its 35th anniversary this weekend with a three-day celebration that will include lots of reminiscences, as well as screenings and presentations of departmental work.