Imagine knowing that your master’s degree rides on getting a pilot water-treatment plant up and running. That was the final project facing four students pursuing master's degrees in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. And they did it.
Proper dining manners and self-presentation skills were on the menu at last week's first annual "Etiquette Luncheon" at the University at Buffalo, hosted by the Office of Career Planning and Placement.
New applications of neuroimaging in the cognitive sciences will be discussed April 2 when renowned cognitive psychologist Michael I. Posner presents the 1999 Distinguished Speaker Lecture sponsored by the Center for Cognitive Science
The School of Information and Library Studies at the University at Buffalo and the university's Department of Communication will merge on July 1, creating a unit that will enable UB to conduct more productive educational programs in information and communication technology.
The Research Institute on Addictions, currently an arm of the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, is slated to become part of the University at Buffalo.
Thirteen University at Buffalo inventors will be honored at a reception to be held on March 15 by the Office of Technology Transfer Licensing in its new role as part of the UB Business Alliance.
Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D., internationally known neurologist, researcher and 1997 Nobel laureate in medicine, will speak at UB on March 22 in a combined Harrington Lecture and an Edward Fogan Lecture in Neurology.
The problem-solving and presentation skills of MBA students from the School of Management were tested recently during the school's Fourth Annual Case Competition, which asked teams of students to serve as consultants responsible for devising corporate strategy.