News Releases

UB's Psychological Services Center in Park Hall will offer free screening and information sessions on May 2, which has been designated National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day.

The University at Buffalo is bolstering its ties with the community with the formation of an institute that will strengthen the planning and management skills of local not-for-profit agencies. Funded by a $190,000 grant from The John R. Oishei Foundation, the UB Institute for Non-Profit Agencies will work with the management of local health and human-service agencies to train and certify executives, managers and staff in program planning, development, management, supervision and evaluation.

UB's Psychological Services Center during May will offer to the community, as well as UB students, faculty and staff, a Relaxation Workshop, a Couples Communication Workshop and a workshop titled "Mind over Mood."

A multidisciplinary team of pharmaceutics and computer-science researchers at the University at Buffalo, one of very few teams in the nation applying DNA microarray technology in studies of multiple sclerosis (MS), has developed a method of interpreting the massive amount of information that results from such experiments.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo has received the largest grant in its history for a project that will bring a South African theater group to the center for a month this fall, with performances scheduled not only in the CFA, but in homes and businesses in the community.

A renowned poet and playwright of the Puerto Rican diaspora will visit UB in May to commemorate the life and work of scholar, poet and novelist Alfredo Matilla, Ph.D., who for 23 years was a professor in the UB Department of American Studies. Matilla, a UB faculty member from 1972-95 and chair of the Department of American Studies from 1991-95, died March 29 in Puerto Rico. He was 63.

Connections between feminism, corporate law and economic policy will be explored during the "Feminism, Corporations and Capitalism: Policy and Protest Workshop" to be held April 20 and 21 at the UB Law School.

Seventeen UB juniors will be inducted into the UB Launch Chapter of MortarBoard, the national senior honor society, on April 19.

The nursing profession currently faces two major problems: an aging workforce and a less-than-stellar public image, according to Carol Brewer, Ph.D., associate professor in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing and an expert in nursing labor trends. She sees two potential solutions to solving these problems and avoiding a major shortage of nursing services: change the behavior of nurses who are already licensed by getting them to work more hours, or educate more nurses to increase the number entering the workforce.

The University at Buffalo School of Information Studies will open a new avenue for doctoral study in library science in the Fall 2001 semester with a 72-credit hour Ph.D. degree offered jointly by the school's Department of Library and Information Studies and Department of Communication.