The opportunity to ask specific questions about retirement issues is expected to draw both retirees and soon-to-be retirees to the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North (Amherst) Campus at 7 p.m. Sept. 29.
The Department of Family Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is part of a four-university consortium that has been awarded $900,000 to participate in a new research initiative to change the way primary-care services are delivered and assessed.
Kathryn A. Foster has been appointed the first director of research for the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth, a major UB public-service program and a unit of the Office of Public Service and Urban Affairs.
To help alleviate that shortage of health professionals in the state's underserved communities, the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo is teaming with the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse and other New York professional schools.
The University at Buffalo received $18.14 million in private gifts during fiscal year 1997-98, the highest level of private giving achieved by the university in a fiscal year.
UB will take the lead as one of the first public universities to initiate a campus-wide dialogue on religious issues and their relation to academia when Soul Solidarity Day, a day-long spiritual exchange, is held on Wednesday, Sept. 16.