Aspiring high school poets can showcase their creative talents by participating in the UB Poetry Contest, sponsored by the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). Entries must be postmarked by the close of business on Feb. 7.
The 205th anniversary of the birth of Millard Fillmore, the University at Buffalo's first chancellor and 13th president of the United States, will be observed in ceremonies to be held at 10 a.m. on Jan. 7 in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
"Women's Work: A Tribute to the Women Who Make UB Work," an exhibit highlighting the achievements of female faculty and staff members, and their contributions to UB over the past 100 years, is on display through the end of January in the Special Collections Reading Room in Capen Hall on the North Campus.
Roger K. Cunningham, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunology in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, died on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24, 2004) at the age of 71.
Trying to celebrate the "the same way we always did" is among the many pitfalls that can ruin holidays for families, says a faculty member at the University at Buffalo who is president of the Family Process Institute.
A gene therapy method that doesn't rely on potentially toxic viruses as vectors may be growing closer as the result of in vitro research results reported by University at Buffalo scientists in the current online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Frank C. Zagare, professor and chair of the Department of the Political Science in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected vice president of the International Studies Association for 2006-07.
A study looking at the prevalence of sexual assault among 1,014 women between 18 and 30 found that 38 percent had experienced sexual victimization and nearly half of that group had been raped, according to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
A potential new neuronal pathway involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease that may be a promising target for new treatments for the disease has been identified by scientists at the University at Buffalo.
Honored for his service to the University at Buffalo, the community and the medical profession, Ronald "Skip" Garvey, M.D. '53, chairman for Brit Systems, Inc., has received the UB Medical Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award.
