An editorial in The Buffalo News calls UB's draft plan to redesign and reconfigure its three campuses "a well-thought-out concept that deserves support" and calls the university "one of this region's best bets for growth in the new economy."
An article in Inside Higher Ed interviews President John B. Simpson on UB 2020, the state budget crisis and regulatory reforms that would challenge longstanding traditions in New York but improve public higher education.
An op-ed by President John B. Simpson in The Buffalo News looks at the tremendous sense of pride and spirit that has been generated by the football team's championship season.
An editorial in The Buffalo News coauthored by editorial writers from newspapers throughout upstate New York supports the growth of UB as a flagship SUNY system research university.
An article in the Boston Globe looks at the 1958 football team that declined to participate in the Tangerine Bowl because of racism and interviews several members of the team about their winning season 50 years ago and disappointment over the bigotry that prevented them from playing a bowl game.
Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies, is quoted in an article distributed by the Associated Press about the International Debutante Ball and its social and cultural relevance today.
Dr. Joyce Brothers' advice column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about parents of a child with learning and emotional difficulties who are divorcing reports a study by UB psychologists found that parents of children with certain hyperactivity disorders had a divorce rate 10 percent higher than other parents by the child's 8th birthday.