The World Wide Web has provided an online community for a vast number of unrelated activist non-governmental organizations (NGOs), facilitating communication between them and integrating them into multinational entities that can operate on a global scale, according to a study by a University at Buffalo communication researcher.
For the second year in a row, the University at Buffalo School of Management has been ranked as one of the world's "top business schools" by The Wall Street Journal.
UB will mark the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedies with a variety of events and activities, including a university program of "Remembrance and Healing," to be held at 3 p.m. Sept. 11 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Grammy Award-winning artist Bruce Hornsby and his band, featuring Steve Kimock, with special guest The Slip Sunday, will perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
A study by a University at Buffalo professor shows that President Bush's rhetoric and word usage became much more charismatic after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, as did the language used by the news media to describe and depict his leadership after the terrorist attacks.
A UB alumnus who worked at Ground Zero during the first few weeks after the Sept. 11 tragedy will present an American flag that flew over the site to UB President William R. Greiner during the university's Annual Newman Convocation and Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, to be held on Sunday.
"The Nazi Destruction of Jewish Archives and Libraries in Cracow During World War II" will be the title of a free lecture by Marek Sroka to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 in the University Archives, Room 420 Capen Hall on the North Campus.
Julia Butterfly Hill, the environmental activist who lived for more than two years in the canopy of a 1,000-year-old redwood tree in California to save it from loggers, will lecture at the University at Buffalo on Oct. 3 as part of a three-day campus "Ecofest."
The Dell supercomputer cluster unveiled today at the University at Buffalo is the result of a unique partnership between corporate, government and non-profit institutions that is establishing UB and the Buffalo Niagara region as a worldwide leader in supercomputing and bioinformatics.