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  • Fights and Vandalism Shown to be Related to Drinking at School
    6/3/04
    Interpersonal aggression and vandalism in high school are directly related to alcohol use during school hours, according to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) and Canisius College.
  • More Science Faculty "Kick the Lecture Habit" in Favor of Case Studies Method Developed at University at Buffalo
    5/14/04
    Want to make college science faculty really nervous? Tell them to stop lecturing and start telling stories, instead. That's the advice that science faculty hear when they participate in one of the "Case Studies in Science" workshops at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB's James L. Hoot Receives Highest Honor Awarded by Association of Early Childhood Educators
    4/30/04
    James L. Hoot, Ph.D., director of the Early Childhood Research Center at the University at Buffalo, has received the 2004 Patty Smith Hill Award, the highest honor accorded its members by the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI), one of the world's oldest professional educational organizations.
  • Steven Sample Will Receive Norton Medal, Walsh and Wilmers to Receive Honorary SUNY Degrees at UB Commencement on May 9
    4/29/04
    Former University at Buffalo president Steven B. Sample will receive the Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal, UB's highest award, during the university's 158th general commencement ceremony, to be held at 10 a.m. on May 9 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Plans to Branch-Out Overseas with New Programs and Campuses
    4/15/04
    Faced with possible declines in international-student enrollments due to strict post-9/11 student-visa regulations, the University at Buffalo is among several U.S. institutions reaching out to international students by establishing new programs and campuses on international soil.
  • Jacobs to Co-Chair State's Technology Policy and Practices Council
    3/25/04
    Donald J. Jacobs, founder and director of Center for Applied Technologies in Education at the University at Buffalo and chair of the education policy group Education Innovation Consortium, has been appointed to co-chair the University of the State of New York (USNY) Technology Policy and Practices Council.
  • UB Center to Co-Sponsor Student Cisco Networkers' Conference
    2/19/04
    The third annual Student Cisco Networkers' Conference for area high school students and adult learners will be held March 19 at the City Campus of Erie Community College. The day-long event will be co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo, the UB Center for Applied Technologies in Education (CATE) and Cisco Systems, Inc.
  • UB Center to Co-Sponsor Student Cisco Networkers' Conference
    2/18/04
    The third annual Student Cisco Networkers' Conference for area high school students and adult learners will be held March 19 at the City Campus of Erie Community College.
  • Researcher Finds that Race Is No Longer a Dominant Identity Marker for American Youth
    2/6/04
    In a study of how American high school students describe their social identities, an education professor at the University at Buffalo has found that a sizeable number of young people downplay conventional racial and ethnic labels and are constructing social identities unlike those of previous generations.
  • CCR and Verizon Bring Bioinformatics to High Schools
    2/5/04
    A strategy in Buffalo aimed at stimulating awareness of careers in the life sciences, particularly bioinformatics, has spurred local teachers and the Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo to develop several in-school programs to introduce bioinformatics to area high school students.