http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=d-publicservice en-US Copyright 2009, University at Buffalo 2009-11-23T16:53:21-05:00 ub-news@buffalo.edu ub-news@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10651 A year ago, the small house at 139 Howell St. in Buffalo's Black Rock neighborhood stood vacant, just one more derelict property up for auction. The two-story structure was crumbling. It languished as an eyesore, its fate uncertain. Where others saw blight, four University at Buffalo architecture students saw opportunity. 2009-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 106510009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10637 Colleen Darby, an artist in residence in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts' Arts in Healthcare Program in Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, has been selected to create a mural for ABC Television's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" project currently underway at 228 Massachusetts Ave. in Buffalo. 2009-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 106370009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10623 The University at Buffalo will celebrate International Education Week (IEW), a joint initiative of the U.S. departments of State and Education to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to experience the U.S., Nov. 16-20. 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 106230009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10622 The University at Buffalo Law School will host a Veterans Day symposium at 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 in 106 O'Brian Hall on UB's North Campus designed to explore ways to make it easier for U.S. military and service-members to obtain their entitled benefits. 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 106220009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10592 When writer Steve Lopez, whose columns for the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> were the basis for a hit film and a bestselling book about homelessness, mental illness and the redemptive power of music, presents the Oct. 28 Distinguished Speaker Lecture at the University at Buffalo, he will be surrounded by community workers whose work he knows and appreciates. 2009-10-22T00:00:00-05:00 105920009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10536 UBMD, the University at Buffalo's 450-member physician practice plan, has received a $7 million grant from the New York State Department of Health HEAL NY initiative to implement a novel electronic records system to track and manage treatment of chronic kidney disease in real time, with the goal of reducing the number of patients in Western New York who develop end stage kidney disease (ESRD). 2009-10-07T00:00:00-05:00 105360009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10528 The University at Buffalo introduced today iSciWNY, a comprehensive life-sciences workforce development program dedicated to preparing all Western New Yorkers, not just scientists, for new positions in Buffalo Niagara's growing life sciences industry. 2009-10-06T00:00:00-05:00 105280009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10500 A nation-wide cancer information program targeting African-Americans, called the Witness Project, is partnering with a University at Buffalo genetic epidemiologist to conduct the first national study of genes that increase breast cancer susceptibility in African-American families. 2009-09-29T00:00:00-05:00 105000009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10424 Bat fleas, nematodes and intelligent design are just a few of the myriad subjects covered by the University at Buffalo's 2009-10 Western New York Science and Technology Forum, "Horizons of the Sciences," for Western New York teachers. 2009-09-09T00:00:00-05:00 104240009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10392 Many of the area's most promising middle and high school science and math students shared notes, participated in hands-on activities and interacted with some of the University at Buffalo's distinguished faculty during the four-day Passport STEM program held last week on UB's South (Main Street) Campus. 2009-08-27T00:00:00-05:00 103920009