http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=ub2020-civic en-US Copyright 2008, University at Buffalo 2008-05-17T10:20:52-04:00 apage@buffalo.edu apage@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9388 New York State should take advantage of a golden opportunity to become a leader in developing clean, renewable offshore wind power, an alternative energy source that could trigger an economic renaissance and a greener image for the Western New York community, according to a report by a University at Buffalo Law School clinic. 2008-05-16T00:00:00-04:00 93880009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9365 The University at Buffalo will conduct a mathematics and science summer camp in August for 50 high-achieving eighth graders in the Buffalo Public Schools, funded through a $100,984 grant from the New York State Education Department's Excelsior Scholars Program. 2008-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 93650009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9363 A food security expert at the University at Buffalo says the worldwide food crisis is a direct result of the choices made by policy makers and the lack of attention paid to the food system and its relationship to global warming and fossil fuels. 2008-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 93630009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9362 The latest delay in the construction of a new Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Ft. Erie, Ontario, may be trying the patience of Western New Yorkers, but the region has more to lose than time if it erects a bridge that destroys local habitat, according to two University at Buffalo professors who study environmental impacts of structures. 2008-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 93620009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9342 The University at Buffalo East Side Neighborhood Transformation Partnership (ESNTP), a 2-year-old, university-assisted approach to the regeneration of Buffalo's Fruit Belt and Martin Luther King, Jr., Park communities, has received the 2008 Outstanding Program Award from the international Community Development Society. 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 93420009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9333 As environmentalists and citizens nationwide observe Earth Day, the University at Buffalo today reemphasized its commitment to achieving climate neutrality. 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 93330009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9302 Traditional methods of interpreting regional economic conditions, such as employment data, paint a useful but incomplete picture of economic change in the 21st century, according to the University at Buffalo Regional Institute's latest Policy Brief, "Grasping the New Economy." 2008-04-11T00:00:00-04:00 93020009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9300 National and local experts on providing legal services to those unable to afford high lawyer bills will convene in Buffalo this month for a three-day pro bono conference sponsored by the University at Buffalo's Law School, the Department of Sociology in the UB College of Arts and Sciences and local judicial organizations. 2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 93000009 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/9175 American politics and federal tax law draw on outdated notions of the American family that continue to promote gender inequality and undermine the middle class, according to a University at Buffalo Law School professor. 2008-02-20T00:00:00-04:00 91750009