• University At Buffalo And Jagiellonian University Produce Book On Libraries And The Democratic Process
    5/24/95
    For nearly 50 years, librarians in Poland were educated, professionally trained and required to work under a central-government library system that severely restricted the collection of vast amounts of published material and limited public and scholarly access to even these restricted collections.
  • Rural AIDS Cases Rising Three Times Faster Than Urban Cases
    5/1/95
    AIDS cases in rural areas appear to be increasing at a rate three times faster than in metropolitan areas, where health-care facilities are better equipped to deal with the problem.
  • Rural AIDS Cases Rising Three Times Faster Than Urban Cases
    5/1/95
    AIDS cases in rural areas appear to be increasing at a rate three times faster than in metropolitan areas, where health-care facilities are better equipped to deal with the problem.
  • First Western-Style MBA Program In Eastern Europe, Located In Latvia, Graduates Initial Class University At Buffalo, University of Ottawa Partners In Landmark Effort
    5/17/95
    The first Western-style master's of business administration program in Eastern Europe will graduate its first class Saturday as the result of a U.S.-Canadian effort involving funding from the federal governments of both countries and the faculty and administration at the University at Buffalo and University of Ottawa.
  • UB Releases 1994 Research Report Industry Support For UB Research Reaches A Record $19 Million
    5/5/95
    For the first time, industrial sponsorship of research at the University at Buffalo last year surpassed all categories of external support of research besides federal, according to the Fiscal Year 1994 Year-End Report of the Vice President for Research.
  • Interest In Simpson Trial Not As Great As Media Indicates UB Survey Also Finds Prosecution Favored Over Defense, Few Believe O.J. Will Be Convicted
    5/11/95
    Americans appear to have tuned out the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial, and are not following the events as closely as the extensive media coverage would indicate, according to a national survey conducted by a University at Buffalo researcher.
  • Nolan Elected to Mastership In Physicians College
    5/9/95
    James P. Nolan, M.D., chair of the Department of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and chief of medicine at The Buffalo General Hospital, has been elected to mastership in the American College of Physicians.
  • UB is Prime Contractor For $1.4 Million Project to Protect San Diego Building From Earthquake Damage
    5/17/95
    The U.S. Department of the Navy has awarded a $1.4 million contract to the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER), headquartered at the University at Buffalo, to design and install new seismic-protection technology in a Navy office-supply building in San Diego.
  • Students Take On Challenge of Designing, Synthesizing And Testing New Reagents As Part of UB Pharmacy Course Classwork Could Lead to More Effective Cardiovascular Treatments
    5/2/95
    Spring is when most college students are writing papers or studying for exams. But in an innovative, senior-level class in the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy, students have been given a unique assignment: Design, synthesize and test a new pharmacological reagent that could lead to more effective cardiovascular treatments.
  • First Human Trial Shows Partial Liquid Breathing Improves Lung Function In Desperately Ill Preemies
    5/10/95
    An experimental treatment for life-threatening respiratory distress syndrome, developed by researchers at the University at Buffalo and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, is safe and can save the lives of seriously ill premature infants, results of a five-center pilot study have shown.
  • Goldstar Co. Donates $200,000 to Support UB Korean Studies
    5/5/95
    A $200,000 gift to help expand Korean language and culture programs at the University at Buffalo has been donated to the university by LG Electronics, formerly called Lucky Goldstar Co., one of Korea's leading technology companies.
  • UB Physician Wins Coveted Robert Wood Johnson Award
    5/8/95
    Carlos Roberto JaƩn, Ph.D., M.D., assistant professor of family medicine and social and preventive medicine at the University at Buffalo, is one of 15 people in the United States selected to receive 1995 Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
  • 4 UB Faculty Members Named SUNY Distinguished Professors
    5/3/95
    Four faculty members at the University at Buffalo have been named a Distinguished Professor, the highest rank in the State University of New York system, by the SUNY Board of Trustees.
  • Novel Penicillin-Type Structures May Provide Leads On Antibiotics For Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria
    5/16/95
    Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo have, by rearranging the molecular structure of penicillin, recently synthesized several novel classes of penicillin-type chemical structures that may serve as fresh leads in the search for new antibiotics.
  • Study Highlights Need For More Knowledge of Pain Management Nurses Believe Physicians Are Not Well-Informed On Topic
    5/23/95
    Undermedication is the most important problem of pain management in hospitals, one of the first studies to investigate how nurses assess their knowledge of pain and their skill in alleviating it has shown.
  • UB Pharmacy Dean is Awarded Top Pharmacology Honor
    5/19/95
    David J. Triggle, Ph.D., dean of the School of Pharmacy and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded the Otto Krayer Award in Pharmacology by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
  • Hiv-Positive Children Do Not Develop Hiv-Related Oral Lesions Despite Harboring Lesion-Causing Bacteria, Study Shows
    5/15/95
    A University at Buffalo dental study designed to determine the extent of peridontal lesions in HIV-positive children and to find ways to relieve or alleviate them, has found that most of the children examined didn't have the lesions, despite harboring the disease-causing bacteria in their mouths.
  • National Panel Headed By UB Specialist to Release First Stroke-Rehabilitation Guidelines
    5/24/95
    A national panel of stroke-rehabilitation experts today released the first comprehensive guidelines for stroke recovery, recommendations that will provide survivors, families and health professionals across the U.S. with a common blueprint for returning stroke patients to optimum health.
  • UB Awards Multidisciplinary Grants to 16 Faculty Teams
    5/31/95
    Sixteen faculty teams at the University at Buffalo with excellent ideas for original, multidisciplinary research have been awarded grants totaling more than $300,000 by the university.