Medtronic has made a gift-in-kind of five ICB dual-chamber implantable defibrillator systems, with a total value of $150,000, to the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences for the groundbreaking cardiovascular research of John M. Canty, Jr.
The Johnson Foundation of Jamestown has given a $10,000 grant to WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by UB, to be used in the digitization of its studios.
Four students at the University at Buffalo have received J. Scott Fleming Merit Awards for leadership and volunteer efforts that promote student involvement and the student experience.
James N. Jensen of East Amherst, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been named director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Resources at the university.
Sebastian Ciancio, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, has received the 2003 Pharmacology, Therapeutics & Toxicology Research Award from the International Association for Dental Research (IADR).
Research funding at the University at Buffalo increased by more than 28 percent during the 2002 fiscal year, increasing to $239.7 million, representing a growth of $52.9 million over the previous year.
Cheektowaga's Bellevue community -- which includes a nature preserve, a quarry and several landfills -- is the subject of an unusual public art project that has been two years in the making.
Edna Romanell has made two gifts with a combined value of nearly $1.5 million to the University at Buffalo. With the two gifts,she has continued the legacy begun by her late husband, Patrick Romanell, a philosopher and author of several books on critical naturalism.
Thirty-three years after the first Earth Day was celebrated in April 1970, the energy officer at a university that has led the move toward sustainable campuses has issued a "to-do list" for institutions of higher education in order to make further progress toward the "green campus."
Gender, race and type of strenuous physical activity -- whether on an organized sports team or informal physical exercise -- play a role in the relationship between physical activity and sexual risk-taking by teen-agers, according to a study led by a researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions
