Education

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  • UB Graduate School of Education Professor and Wife Pledge $25,000 to Support Excellence in Teaching
    2/4/04
    J. Ronald Gentile, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, and his wife, Kay Johnson-Gentile, a retired Buffalo State College professor, have pledged up to $25,000 in matching challenge funds to benefit UB's recently established Center for Teaching and Learning Resources (CTLR).
  • At New UB Center, Scientists Will Tailor Unique Biometric Systems for Homeland Security, Public Health
    11/11/03
    The University at Buffalo has established the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors, a new, cross-disciplinary center that takes a unique approach to developing technologies in biometrics, the science of identifying individuals based on their physical, chemical or behavioral characteristics.
  • SUNY Trustees Give Simpson Unanimous Approval to be 14th president of University at Buffalo
    10/28/03
    John B. Simpson, Ph.D., today received the unanimous approval of the State University of New York Board of Trustees to be the next president of the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Named "Environmentalist of the Year" by State Affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation
    10/24/03
    Environmental Advocates, the New York State affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation, has named the University at Buffalo its "Environmentalist of the Year" for initiating an effort to buy wind energy that has become so successful it has made the university the state's largest purchaser of wind power.
  • UB Program Receives $2.5 Million Federal Grant to Provide Continuing Education in Rehabilitation Counseling
    10/7/03
    The Region II Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program (RRCEP) in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education has received a $2.5 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE).
  • Program Will Offer Tuition-Free Grants to Doctoral Candidates in Special Education
    9/29/03
    The joint doctoral program in special education offered by the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education and Buffalo State College has received a federal grant to fund five students as they work toward a doctorate in special education.
  • "Campaign for UB: Generation to Generation" Raises $291.6 Million, Surpasses $250 Million Goal by $41.6 Million
    9/19/03
    The University at Buffalo has concluded successfully "The Campaign for UB: Generation to Generation," becoming the first State University of New York (SUNY) institution to set such an ambitious goal -- $250 million -- and then surpass it, raising $291,602,262, more than five times the amount raised in the university's previous campaign.
  • CATE to Provide Training for Buffalo Teachers
    9/12/03
    However grave the budget crisis that afflicts the Buffalo Public Schools this year, its teachers will get a technological leg up on their computer-savvy students. The University at Buffalo's Center for Applied Technologies in Education (CATE) will provide on-site, in-service training in a variety of educational technologies to more than 3,500 Buffalo school teachers during the 2003-04 school year through its "Push-In Technology Training Program."
  • PDAs Are as Indispensable as Stethoscopes at UB as Medical School Mandates Them for All Students
    9/5/03
    At the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, all medical students have added something new -- and high-tech -- to their list of must-have school supplies: a personal digital assistant, more commonly known as a PDA.
  • Enrollment in Chemistry Soars at UB, Bucking a National Decline
    8/20/03
    When Jim D. Atwood became the chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo in 1998, he said he wanted to make freshman chemistry "a little less hated." And with about 30 percent of freshmen flunking out of General Chemistry 101, he had a tough job ahead of him. Now, five years later, having instituted major changes in the freshman chemistry courses, Atwood and his faculty have succeeded beyond their most ambitious dreams.