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  • Study Finds 'Idealized' Story of America Being Scrutinized, Questioned by High School Students
    8/1/02
    A study by an education researcher at the University at Buffalo has found that the "celebratory grand epic" about America that prevails in many of the nation's history classrooms and textbooks is no longer taken at face value by the increasingly heterogeneous population of U.S. high school students.
  • UB School of Pharmacy First in the U.S. to Require Future Pharmacists to Take Pharmacogenomics
    6/27/02
    This fall, in addition to Biochemical Principles and Human Physiology, students studying to be pharmacists in the University at Buffalo's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will be taking a course in pharmacogenomics.
  • Physical Aggression Common in the Lives of Young Adults
    6/26/02
    The prevalence of physical aggression among adults "eclipses rates based on police reports or victimization surveys by a factor of 10," according to a study by University at Buffalo researchers recently reported in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. They found that 1 in every 3 men between the ages of 18 and 30 and 1 in 5 women in that age category are the target of physically aggressive behavior on an annual basis.
  • Recruitment Opportunities Abound for U.S. Universities as Canadian High Schools Graduate "Double Cohort" in 2003
    6/5/02
    The University at Buffalo is among U.S. institutions gearing up to recruit the most talented of the as may as 75,000 Canadian high school graduates who could be migrating to the United States next year to fill seats in college and university classrooms unavailable to them in their homeland.
  • UB Professor, Graduate Students Study North America's Most Active Volcano On Site in Mexico
    5/17/02
    A geology professor at the University at Buffalo recently took graduate students enrolled in his advanced field methods class to western Mexico to study Colima -- the most active volcano in North America -- and its eruptive patterns, and to learn from residents what it's like to live beneath "el Volcan de Fuego," or "volcano of fire," as Colima is known.
  • From Bad to Worse: UB Finance Professor Finds Financial Literacy Drops Further Among U.S. 12th Graders
    4/24/02
    Survey results released yesterday by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy and Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics at the University at Buffalo, show that high school seniors know even less about personal finance basics than they did five years ago.
  • Book by Pulitzer Prize Winner Carl Dennis Populated by "Practical Gods" Who Speak to Us Daily
    4/11/02
    Carl Dennis' "Practical Gods," for which he was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is full of them.
  • UB's Carl Dennis Named Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
    4/8/02
    Carl Dennis, professor of English at the University at Buffalo, today was named recipient of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his eighth collection of poems, "Practical Gods" (Penguin Books).
  • Graduate School of Education to Begin Counseling Degree Program in Singapore in June
    3/15/02
    In response to a new training priority identified by the Singapore Ministry of Education, the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education will offer a 36-credit hour Master of Education Degree in School Counseling through Singapore's Center for American Education in Singapore beginning June 15.
  • Lessons Learned from Fall of Enron Informing MBA Classes at University at Buffalo
    3/13/02
    Two former Enron employees -- 1996 graduates of the University at Buffalo's MBA program -- will discuss lessons learned from the ongoing Enron investigation and its long-term impact on business practices during a panel discussion sponsored by the MBA program in the University at Buffalo School of Management. The panel discussion is only one example of several ways that the UB School of Management and its faculty are bringing lessons from Enron into the classroom.