News Releases

The UB Center for the Arts will present Hudson Vagabond Puppets' "Ferdinand the Bull," based on the classic tale by Munro Leaf, at 2 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Mainstage theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Astronaut Ellen Shulman Baker, a 1974 graduate of the University at Buffalo, will receive a SUNY honorary doctor of science degree at the UB's seventh annual University Convocation, to be held Oct. 4.

MBA enrollment in the University at Buffalo School of Management is up 40 percent this fall. A total of 258 new students have enrolled in the full-time, Professional and Executive MBA programs in the UB management school, compared to 184 students last fall.

A review and analysis of 26 studies of physical activity levels of children, completed by University at Buffalo researchers, has found that children accumulate more physical activity than previously thought.

Thomas C. Robinson, a faculty member in the College of Allied Health Professions in the Chandler Medical Center at the University of Kentucky, will deliver the 13th annual J. Warren Perry Lecture at 4 p.m. Oct. 12 in Slee Concert Hall on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

A major emphasis on improving intelligence-gathering -- including having the FBI and CIA work in tandem -- must be a key piece of the U.S. retaliation against terrorists for last week's attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, according to a University at Buffalo professor who is a former editor of the journal Armed Forces & Society. "If President Bush looks only to the military, which seems to be both his initial inclination, and what the American public wants him to do, he will get incomplete and misleading information about what's important," said Claude E. Welch, Jr., Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the UB Department of Political Science.

For more and more faculty researchers at the University at Buffalo, UB's Center for Computational Research, one of the world's leading academic high-performance computing centers, has become an increasingly critical resource that is helping to propel major projects. Supercomputing has made major inroads in a broad range of projects at UB, helping to garner about $40 million in external funding for faculty members.

Deborah Waldrop, Ph.D., University at Buffalo assistant professor of social work, was social work director at Oklahoma City's St. Anthony Hospital on April 19, 1995, when a truck bomb exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Located roughly five blocks from the disaster, St. Anthony was on the front line of rescue efforts and Waldrop learned first-hand the devastating impact such a tragedy has on rescue workers responding to disasters.

Jennifer A. McDonough, vice president for development and alumni relations at the University of Vermont, has been appointed vice president for development and alumni relations at the University at Buffalo.

Americans' "general naivete" regarding the beliefs and assumptions of religions other than their own is hampering their ability to understand discussions about those suspected of being responsible for last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, according to Phillips Stevens, Jr. Stevens, associate professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo and nationally-recognized expert in the anthropology of religion, says the lack of knowledge is particularly acute when it comes to fundamentalist religious groups of the Middle East.