• International Education Week: Increasing Global Awareness
    11/1/07
    International Education Week, the annual event recognizing the importance of international education and exchange to the community and the nation, will take place Nov. 12-16 with a full slate of free events, including film screenings, musical performances, presentations and exhibitions designed showcase the University at Buffalo's cultural diversity.
  • UB's Ira G. Ross Eye Institute Opens on Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
    11/1/07
    The new home of the University at Buffalo's Ira G. Ross Eye Institute -- a collaboration of the Department of Ophthalmology in UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the Elizabeth Pierce Olmsted, M.D., Center for the Visually Impaired and University Ophthalmology Services -- opened today at 1176 Main Street.
  • School of Management Dean to Speak at Luncheon
    11/5/07
    John M. Thomas, dean of the School of Management, will speak at the next "UB at Noon...Downtown" luncheon series to be held from noon to 1:15 p.m. Nov. 14 in Chef's Restaurant, 291 Seneca St.
  • Emeritus Professor's Gift to Support UB Doctoral Students
    11/5/07
    Emeritus Professor Robert F. Berner, who had a 36-year career at the University at Buffalo, will support the work of doctoral candidates in the UB School of Management through an endowed gift. He also is supporting the UB Graduate School of Education in honor of his late wife, Ruth L. Berner, who did graduate work there, and the Millard Fillmore College, where he served as dean for more than 20 years.
  • Increasing Organ Donations Among NYC Minorities Goal of Study
    11/5/07
    A study aimed at increasing the number of African-American, Hispanic and Asian registered organ donors in New York City and focusing on college students is underway and headed by a researcher at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB MBAs top 10 in Thunderbird Sustainable Innovation Challenge
    11/5/07
    MBA students from the University at Buffalo School of Management are finalists in an innovation competition to be held in conjunction with Thunderbird School of Global Management's Sustainable Innovation Summit on Nov. 8-10 at Thunderbird in Glendale, Ariz.
  • Oishei Grant Will Improve UB Diagnostic Tools in Psychiatry
    11/5/07
    A $148,328 grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation will establish a multidisciplinary task force for ontology-based IT support for large-scale field studies in psychiatry at the University at Buffalo.
  • 2007-08 UB "Exhibit X Fiction" Series Will Open with a Bang
    11/5/07
    Unique, brilliant, exceptional in a hundred ways, poet, novelist and critic and Nathaniel Mackey will inaugurate the 2007-08 University at Buffalo English Department "Exhibit X Fiction" series on Nov. 15 with a 7 p.m. reading in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.
  • Media Study Exhibition Explores Time, Death, Memory, Change
    11/5/07
    "CollisionsCollusions," a two-part exhibition of film, performance, video, experimental music and networked actions produced by 11 graduate students in the University at Buffalo Department of Media Study, will be held at Big Orbit Gallery, 30D Essex St., in Buffalo Nov. 9-11 and Nov. 16-18.
  • Nils Olsen to Receive the 2007 Edwin F. Jaeckle Award on Nov. 13
    11/5/07
    Nils Olsen, professor and dean of the University at Buffalo Law School, will receive the 2007 Edwin F. Jaeckle Award, the highest honor the UB Law School and the UB Law Alumni Association can bestow, in recognition of his extraordinary service to the university and the Western New York community.
  • Invigorating UB's Public Spaces
    11/5/07
    A public artwork commissioned by a Cleveland arts group to reflect the effects of wind coming off Lake Erie has found a new home in Founders Plaza on the sometimes windy North Campus of the University at Buffalo in a city that shares Erie's shores with Cleveland.
  • UB Libraries Promote New Yorkers' Geography Awareness
    11/6/07
    A geosciences specialist in the University at Buffalo Sciences and Engineering Library has developed the "NYS Gazetteer and GeoData Collection," a database of digital topographical maps and gazetteer information that makes it possible to easily search and locate 38,000 places, features, and other geographic sites in New York State from a computer.
  • Print Sale to Feature Work by Faculty, Students, Alumni
    11/6/07
    The Department of Visual Studies in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences will hold its annual print sale from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 15 in the atrium of the Center for the Arts on the North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Roberts Named Associate Vice President for University Libraries
    11/6/07
    Stephen M. Roberts of North Buffalo has been named associate vice president for University Libraries at the University at Buffalo.
  • In Demolition's Wake, the Remains of a Future City
    11/6/07
    Artist and architect Dennis Maher collects discarded building materials from demolition sites and salvage yards throughout the de-industrialized city of Buffalo and uses them to create haunting sculptures, paintings and environmental installations that he usually installs in other city buildings slated for demolition, restoration or renovation.
  • UB Engineering Students Aim to Reduce School-Bus Emissions
    11/7/07
    Students who are members of the University at Buffalo Chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World are partnering with Erie County on the Erie County Clean School Bus Initiative, a program that aims to reduce diesel emissions in school buses.
  • Center for the Arts to Present Tomaseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas
    11/7/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Tomaseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 5 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Daum Named Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
    11/8/07
    Andreas Daum, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences at theUniversity at Buffalo, has been appointed associate dean in UB's Office of the Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education.
  • Report Focuses on Alternatives to Incarceration in Erie County
    11/9/07
    The Regional Institute at the University at Buffalo has released the findings of its assessment of the Erie County criminal justice system, part of an effort to identify strategies to alleviate jail overcrowding in the county.
  • B.J. Thomas Holiday Concert to Benefit Ronald McDonald House
    11/9/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will hold a Holiday Benefit Concert featuring B.J. Thomas at 8 p.m. on Dec. 8 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Landmark Trial to Evaluate Cardioprotective Properties of Insulin
    11/9/07
    The ability of insulin to limit heart-tissue damage during a heart attack will be tested in a landmark clinical trial led by Paresh Dandona, M.D., Ph.D., University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor in the departments of Medicine and Pharmacology and Toxicology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy Is Focus of Study
    11/9/07
    Despite warnings from experts and media campaigns marketing healthy living techniques, approximately one-third of women of childbearing age smoke cigarettes and 25-50 percent of women smoke during pregnancy. A research team at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) has responded to this problem with a new study focused on a smoking cessation program specifically for pregnant women.
  • Organist Todd Wilson to give recital
    11/13/07
    Highly regarded organist Todd Wilson, fellow and choirmaster certificate holder from the American Guild of Organists, will give an organ recital at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus, as part of the UB Department of Music's Slee/Visiting Artist Series.
  • New MBA Concentration Focuses on Global Supply Chain and IT
    11/2/07
    Training managers to lead in the information-based global economy is the goal of the University at Buffalo School of Management's new MBA concentration in Global Services and Supply Management (GSSM).
  • UB Maintains Leadership Position in International-Student Enrollment
    11/13/07
    The University at Buffalo continues to maintain its leadership position among America's major public research universities in terms of percentage of enrollment represented by international students, according to the latest annual "Open Doors" report of the Institute of International Education (IIE).
  • Performance of Movement and Mime at UB Will Feature Japanese, Argentine Influences
    11/14/07
    The Asian Studies Program at the University at Buffalo will sponsor an unusual cultural event on Nov. 28 -- a performance that will employ the silent languages of movement and Japanese mime as articulated by the internationally acclaimed Yass Hakoshima Movement Theatre in collaboration with Buffalo's Neglia Ballet Artists.
  • Major Training Grant to Benefit Western New York Ecosystems
    11/15/07
    The National Science Foundation has chosen the University at Buffalo to receive a prestigious $3.1 million grant to train a new generation of environmental experts, using the ecological treasures of Western New York and the Great Lakes basin as a "living laboratory."
  • UB Professor, Global Planner and Futurist Ibrahim Jammal Dies at 77
    11/15/07
    Ibrahim M. Jammal, 77, associate professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Environmental Design and Planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, and a major force behind the study of globalization in the field of planning, died Nov. 13 after a long illness.
  • Study Suggests Need for Spiritual Bridge-Building between Pediatric Oncologists and Patients, Families
    11/16/07
    Results of a new study by sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo and researchers at Brandeis University and Harvard University suggest that pediatric oncologists -- most of whom describe themselves as "spiritual" -- might help their young patients and their families more by learning ways to engage them on a spiritual basis.
  • Buffalo-Made Anti-Cancer Drug Begins Human Trials
    11/16/07
    An anti-cancer drug developed by Kinex Pharmaceuticals of Buffalo and a University at Buffalo faculty researcher has begun clinical testing with patients.
  • George Lee Recognized by White House for Efforts as a Mentor
    11/16/07
    George C. Lee, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, today received a 2006 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from the White House.
  • Design of Patient Tracking Tools May Have Unintended Consequences
    11/26/07
    Proper design of computational tools is critical if they are to be used with success in patient-care settings, particularly in hospital emergency rooms, a field study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo and other institutions recently revealed.
  • Regional Institute Releases Report on Tourism Development in the Southtowns of Erie County
    11/28/07
    The University at Buffalo Regional Institute has released the final report on tourism development in the Southtowns, culminating a two-year collaborative planning effort for the Towns of Brant, Eden, Evans and North Collins, and the Villages of Angola, Farnham and North Collins.
  • Turner Gill Named MAC Coach of the Year
    11/28/07
    University at Buffalo football coach Turner Gill has been named the Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year following the Bulls' record-breaking season. The second-year head coach led the UB football program to new heights in 2007.
  • First of Four Forums on Comprehensive Physical Plan to be Held
    11/29/07
    The first of four public forums on the comprehensive physical plan being developed by UB in conjunction with its plans to grow by 40 percent by the year 2020 will be held Tuesday in the UB Downtown Gateway -- the former M. Wile Building recently purchased by the university -- at 77 Goodell St.
  • Former CEO of Starbucks Makes Tribute Gift to UB
    11/30/07
    Orin Smith, retired CEO of Starbucks Corp., hadn't seen former University at Buffalo president and current law professor William R. Greiner in more than 30 years. Yet one day Smith picked up the phone and called the UB Law School development office, seeking a way to honor his former teacher. The conversation resulted in Smith making a tribute gift of $200,000 in honor of his mentor.
  • UB Researcher's Work Leads to Dismissal of Charges in 86-Year-Old Tulsa 'Race Riot' Case
    11/30/07
    It was while researching the history of African-Americans in Oklahoma that Barbara Nevergold, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo came across the name of Andrew J. Smitherman in the records of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.
  • Performance of Movement and Mime at UB Will Feature Japanese, Argentine Influences
    11/14/07
    The Asian Studies Program at the University at Buffalo will sponsor an unusual cultural event on Nov. 28 -- a performance that will employ the silent languages of movement and Japanese mime as articulated by the internationally-acclaimed Yass Hakoshima Movement Theatre in collaboration with Buffalo's Neglia Ballet Artists.
  • Italian Edition of Gottdiener's "Life in the Air" Published in Milan
    11/19/07
    "La Vita en Volo," the Italian translation of "Life in the Air: Surviving the New Culture of Air Travel," the 2001 book by Mark Gottdiener, Ph.D., professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo, has been published by Edizione Goliardiche (Milan).
  • Straubinger Elected AAPS Fellow
    11/29/07
    Robert M. Straubinger, professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been elected a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.
  • Hopkins Receives Leaders Award
    11/29/07
    L. Nelson Hopkins, professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and director of UB's Toshiba Stroke Research Center, has received the third annual Leaders in Endovascular Education Award from Cordis Endovascular and Cordis Neurovascular Inc.
  • Mager Receives New Investigator Grant
    11/29/07
    Donald E. Mager, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, received the AAPS New Investigator Grant in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism.