The University at Buffalo World Languages Institute (WLI) will sponsor "Ireland Through the Eyes of the Irish," a two-week study tour of Ireland, July 13-28, in which the public is invited to participate.
Mary Flanagan, assistant professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, has been selected by the William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to participate in the Fulbright-Hays Scholarship Program.
Everyone knows that clogged arteries increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke. Unfortunately, most people don't know they have clogged arteries until they actually have a heart attack or some other serious cardiovascular event. By that time, the damage may already be done. Evidence is mounting, however, that information gleaned from a routine dental X-ray may serve as an accurate early-warning system of risk of dying from heart attack or stroke.
Poet, essayist and author Alice Walker, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Color Purple," will speak at 8 p.m. April 26 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
Researchers at the University at Buffalo’s Center for Pain Management are finding new ways to treat chronic pain, a condition thought to affect as many as one in four Americans at an annual cost in disability compensation and lost productivity estimated to be as high as $100 billion.
John Yeh, M.D., professor and vice chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Minnesota, has been named chair of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at UB, effective May 1.
Kenneth M. Blumenthal, Ph.D., professor of molecular genetics, biochemistry and microbiology at the University at Cincinnati, has been named chair of the UB Department of Biochemistry, effective Aug. 1.
A workshop to help teens and adults who stutter assess their communication strengths and learn how to improve their effectiveness as communicators will be part of a conference to be held April 29 at UB.
April is National Poetry Month and what better place to behold a gallery of daring new work than the University at Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), the Web-based definitive world-wide resource for digital poetry and an example of ways in which information technology assists the exploration of the humanities.
A contribution of $31,000 a year for two years from M&T Bank will allow the University Community Initiative to move forward with its housing acquisition, rehabilitation and resale program in the University Heights neighborhood of Buffalo.
