Sixty graduate students in the University at Buffalo Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering will present their cutting-edge research tomorrow (Friday, Oct. 1) on topics ranging from using human hair follicles as a source of stem cells and anticancer therapies with minimal side effects to improvements in fuel cell technology and strategies for sustainable energy.
The National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences has released its long-awaited new assessment of research-doctoral programs in U.S. universities, the first review since 1993.
University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson today struck a hopeful chord for the future of UB and the region, even as he lamented Albany's continued failure to give the university the autonomy it needs to move more quickly ahead with the UB 2020 plan for academic excellence.
The Global Citizens Institute will host its inaugural conference in Buffalo, bringing together 250 teachers, school administrators, musicians, dancers and other community members to promote global understanding, literacy and social responsibility.
With more than 1,000 Williams Advanced Materials (WAM) employees spread across the world, this leading supplier of specialty materials, had its pick of any number of Lean Six Sigma providers to instill a new common language across its international sites.
University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson will give his annual, and final, community address to Western New York residents at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, in Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.
Donna M. Fernandes, president and CEO of the Buffalo Zoo, and John R. Koelmel, president and CEO of First Niagara Financial Group, Inc., have been named the 2010 Buffalo-Niagara Executives of the Year by the University at Buffalo School of Management.
The Sept. 9 issue of the New York Times included an article about an important new art exhibition scheduled to open Oct. 30 in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution: "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture." It is the first major museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture and marks a major distinction in the career of art historian Jonathan D. Katz, PhD, a new associate professor in the University at Buffalo Visual Arts Department where he will direct the new doctoral program.
Mark Gottdiener, PhD, of Buffalo, professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo and one of the nation's leading urban sociologists, has received the 2010 - 2011 Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished career achievements in community and urban sociology from the American Sociological Association (ASA).
A growth-factor chain of action that prompts bone marrow stem cells to repair cardiac tissue and reverse heart failure has been identified by researchers at the University at Buffalo's Center for Research in Cardiovascular Medicine. Results of the discovery of this distinct heart repair action appear online as an article-in-press in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart Circulation Physiology.
