UB’s Millard Fillmore College and Adelphia International Cable will help Western New Yorkers better understand the presidential impeachment proceedings in Washington by offering a telecourse on "The American Presidency."
The University at Buffalo has expanded its student/faculty international-education effort to include formal academic exchange programs with the University of Havana, Cuba; China's Hangzhou University; Maharaja Sayajirao University in India's Vadordara Gujaret State and South Africa's University of the Western Cape.
Two renowned actors of Japanese Noh theater will perform, teach and demonstrate the elements of the 600-year-old theatrical form during a week-long residency at the UB on Feb. 17-23.
The exploration of possible connections between Darwin's theories of biological evolution and feminism will be the topic of the first UB Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender Distinguished Faculty Spring 1999 Lecture Series.
"Wednesdays at 4 PLUS," the bi-annual literary series sponsored by the Poetics Program in the UB Department of English, has announced its Spring 1999 schedule of readings and performances.
"The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups and Communities," a textbook authored by Lawrence Shulman, Ed.D., dean of the UB School of Social Work, has been chosen to educate the first generation of social workers in China.
Ellen M. Gibson, associate dean for legal information services in the UB Law School and director of its Charles B. Sears Law Library, has published the first comprehensive legal-research guide on New York State, New York City and Indian law in New York State.
Suggestions on how to cope in today's complex financial world will be the focus of a "UB at Sunrise" breakfast program to be held from 7:30-9 a.m. Feb. 18 in the Center for Tomorrow.
The University at Buffalo has established a world-class computational research facility, dramatically transforming the university from a campus without a supercomputer into one of the top-10 academic supercomputing sites in the U.S.