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  • By Simulating Gullies, Geographers Discover Ways to Tame Soil Erosion
    10/12/09
    Dead zones in critical waterways, accelerated loss of arable land and massive famines. They're all caused by the 24 billion tons of soil that are lost every year to erosion, a phenomenon that costs the world as much as $40 billion annually. But predicting where erosion occurs, and thus how to prevent it, is a serious challenge. That's why University at Buffalo geographer Sean Bennett has constructed various systems to model it.
  • Adam J. Korus to Receive Willie R. Evans UB Alumni Association Scholarship
    10/8/09
    Adam J. Korus, a University at Buffalo sophomore, has been selected to receive the Willie R. Evans UB Alumni Association Legacy scholarship for the 2009-10 academic year.
  • CNBC's Senior Economics Reporter, a UB Grad, to Speak
    9/29/09
    Steve Liesman, senior economics reporter for CNBC, will speak at UB on Oct. 8 from 9-11 a.m. in the Center for Tomorrow on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Harvey Karp, World-Renowned Child Development Expert and America's Most-Read Pediatrician, to Speak at UB
    9/23/09
    Would you love to know how to stop your two-year-old toddler's tantrums in the supermarket, teach him to share blocks at nursery school or to help her behave nicely during play dates? Did you know there is an "off switch" for crying that all babies are born with?
  • "Ecologies of Decay" -- the Splendor and Intrigue of Destruction and Rot
    9/23/09
    Buffalo's detritus and blight, what Hadas Steiner, associate professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, calls "its bounty of domestic and industrial flotsam," has long been the stuff of Dennis Maher's art.
  • Future home is return to past as UB Pharmacy breaks ground at South Campus facility
    9/11/09
    The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences held a ceremonial groundbreaking today for the building it will call home in 2012, when pharmacy will become the first UB professional school in three decades to move onto the South (Main Street) Campus and back into the City of Buffalo.
  • UB Hero the Right Person, Right Researcher to be on the Scene Yesterday
    9/4/09
    Dietrich Jehle, M.D., the University at Buffalo professor of emergency medicine, who helped save lives on the scene of the 6-car accident on the I-190 expressway on Thursday, coincidentally is particularly knowledgeable about the dangers of car crashes.
  • UB Freshman Class Continues to Shine
    9/4/09
    For the third consecutive year, UB has enrolled the most academically talented freshman class in its history, based on the average SAT score of the 3,197 new students who began classes this week.
  • UB Alumni Association to Launch New Web Site
    8/31/09
    The University at Buffalo Alumni Association, a not-for-profit organization representing more than 200,000 UB graduates, will launch a new Web site on Sept. 9.
  • 37th UB Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Set for Oct. 8
    8/26/09
    The University at Buffalo will hold its Dr. and Mrs. Edmond J. Gicewicz Family UB Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Oct. 8 in the Center for the Arts atrium on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.