Would you love to know how to stop your two-year-old toddler's tantrums in the supermarket, teach him to share blocks at nursery school or to help her behave nicely during play dates? Did you know there is an "off switch" for crying that all babies are born with?
Tom Huber, a shop supervisor at Eberl Iron Works Inc., a metal fabrication and industrial framing company, has long known that different people learn at different rates. He knows this from more than 14 years of training people on the factory floor in Eberl's fabrication shop. At the same time, he needs new hires to get up to speed as quickly as possible so they can become productive team members.
Buffalo's detritus and blight, what Hadas Steiner, associate professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, calls "its bounty of domestic and industrial flotsam," has long been the stuff of Dennis Maher's art.
University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson will deliver his annual community address at 8 a.m. tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009) in Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave., on the corner of Tupper, in Buffalo.
The Obama administration's public attempt to pressure Gov. David Paterson into declaring that he will not seek election next year so that State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will more easily secure the Democratic gubernatorial nomination is "highly unusual and very risky," according to University at Buffalo political scientist James E. Campbell.
Graduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning are working with officials of the Town of Amherst to make the town more "walkable" -- that is, safer for pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
The Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association will present its 2009 Comprehensive Planning Award to "The Olmsted City -- The Buffalo Olmsted Park System: Plan for the 21st Century" produced by the University at Buffalo Urban Design Project (UDP).
The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Ballet Hispanico at 8 p.m. on Oct. 17 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by M&T Bank. There will be a pre-performance talk at 7 p.m.
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that Esther S. Takeuchi, Ph.D., Greatbatch Professor in Power Sources Research in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor awarded in the U.S. for technological achievement.
For the several local governments attempting to trim costs by cutting the size of its boards or legislators, the actual savings is likely to be negligible while loss in representation and responsiveness can be extreme, according to the latest research of the University at Buffalo Regional Institute.
