http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=d-publicservice en-US Copyright 2008, University at Buffalo 2008-05-17T10:20:50-04:00 apage@buffalo.edu apage@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9334 Over the past 10 weeks, 138 IRS-certified accounting students from the University at Buffalo School of Management brought nearly $235,000 in tax refunds back into the Buffalo community through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 93340009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9250 The University at Buffalo Regional Institute has unveiled a new topic area, Civic Infrastructure, and an expansion of online features of its Regional Knowledge Network <http://rkn.buffalo.edu>, a central online resource for information on the binational region of Buffalo Niagara. 2008-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 92500009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9222 WBFO 88.7 FM, a public service of the University at Buffalo and the area's most-listened-to NPR station, has announced the appointment of Donald R. Ingalls, vice president of government affairs for HealthNow of New York Inc., as chair of its advisory board by Marsha S. Henderson, UB vice president for external affairs. 2008-03-11T00:00:00-04:00 92220009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9169 Last summer, graduate students in urban planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and the University of Stuttgart in Germany worked collaboratively to produce a planning proposal designed to promote the expansion of Buffalo's green infrastructure and its economic prosperity while offering a new landscape-planning methodology in response to the destructive October 2006 storm. 2008-02-19T00:00:00-04:00 91690009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9129 WBFO 88.7 FM, a public service of the University at Buffalo and the region's most-listened-to NPR station, has been awarded a grant from The Cameron Baird Foundation in the amount of $20,000 to be used toward the installation of a new tower and antenna that will increase and improve service to its Western New York audience. 2008-02-05T00:00:00-04:00 91290009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9070 WBFO 88.7 FM, a public service of the University at Buffalo, has received a $223,500 grant from the federal Public Telecommunications Facilities Program to install a new tower and antenna that will increase and improve service to its Western New York audience. This is the largest single competitive grant ever received by the station. 2008-01-15T00:00:00-04:00 90700009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8839 The University at Buffalo is offering Western New York schools free tickets for students to attend a lecture by human rights activist and best-selling author Ishmael Beah to be held at 8 p.m. on Oct. 24 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. 2007-09-14T00:00:00-04:00 88390009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8811 Football Fever is upon the nation once again. The soaring of the pigskin signals the start of the "busy" season for cheerleaders, marching bands, and inevitably, sports medicine physicians. 2007-08-29T00:00:00-04:00 88110009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8785 The Regional Institute has expanded its Regional Knowledge Network (RKN), an online information resource on the binational region of Buffalo Niagara, by adding data and mapping features to its section on Transportation & Land Use. 2007-08-10T00:00:00-04:00 87850009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8784 The six weeks that graduate student Tinashe Mudzviti spends at the University at Buffalo this summer could help more than 100,000 people with HIV receive life-saving treatments back in his home country of Zimbabwe. 2007-08-09T00:00:00-04:00 87840009