The so-called "digital divide" between the "haves" -- those who can afford computer access -- and the "have nots" has been erased, at least in the freshman class at the University at Buffalo. Thanks to the university's Students Needing Assistance Program (SNAP) and its corporate partners financial hardship simply is not an issue for 264 freshmen, at least where computers are concerned.
Lockwood Memorial Library on the UB North Campus is sponsoring two consecutive exhibitions that represent opposing ideologies at play in territories ruled by the People's Republic of China.
Students in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo are hitting the streets of several urban neighborhoods this semester as they take a close look at issues faced by Buffalo communities. And they'll only have to look as far as their PCs to do it.
The globe-trotting Amherst Saxophone Quartet will combine music and humor at the UB Senior Alumni Luncheon, to be held at noon March 9 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
Yosef Livne, deputy consul general for the Consul General of Israel in New York, will discuss American-Israeli relations at 1:45 p.m. March 19 in the Student Union Theatre on the UB North Campus as part of the 14th annual Wasserman Conference.
George Stephanopoulos, ABC-TV news political analyst, author and former top aide and communications director in the Clinton Administration, will speak at 8 p.m. March 22 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
Paras Prasad, Ph.D., executive director of the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics at UB, will discuss the institute's groundbreaking research at the "UB at Sunrise" breakfast March 7.
Donna S. Rice, Ph.D., associate vice president for student affairs at UB, has been appointed to a one-year term on the 12-member National Diversity Advisory Council of the American Red Cross.
Alexander N. Cartwright, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University at Buffalo, is the recipient of a prestigious Department of Defense Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program Award.
Even in 2000, African-Americans who are studying to be -- or already are -- mathematicians face a lonely proposition: only about one-quarter of 1 percent of all mathematicians in the United States are black. But many of them are finding a thriving community at the unique Web site created and maintained by a professor of mathematics at the University at Buffalo.
