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  • UB Student Association Pledges $25,000 to Newly Established "Random Acts of Kindness Fund"
    12/9/02
    The University at Buffalo undergraduate Student Association (SA) has pledged $25,000 over five years to an endowment fund designed to help undergraduate students who are experiencing financial difficulties stay in school.
  • Researcher Debunks "Myth" that Asians Are, by Nature, More Academically Successful than Other Minorities
    12/4/02
    Guofang Li, Ph.D., is a Chinese native, academic researcher and assistant professor in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education. She seems the very model of the stereotypical Asian immigrant -- whom she describes as "intelligent, industrious, enduring, obedient, highly successful and joyfully initiated into North American life and English literacy." In reality, Li is out to dispel that stereotype and in study after study she has debunked the popular idea that Asian students are, by nature, better equipped to succeed academically than other minority groups.
  • How Children Perceive Urban Environments Is Focus of First Children's Geography Project
    11/27/02
    University at Buffalo geographers are embarking on a new project designed to find out how school-aged children relate to urban spaces, to create the first "children's geography of the inner city."
  • Researchers in UB Graduate School of Education Awarded Grants Totaling More Than $4.5 Million
    11/21/02
    Education researchers in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) have received more than $4.5 million dollars in federal grants in recent months.
  • UB Professor Emeritus and His Wife Establish Fund for Scholarships in Graduate School of Education
    10/26/02
    A retired professor in the Graduate School of Education and his wife have established a fund to benefit students interested in elementary mathematics instruction.
  • UB is First SUNY Campus to Purchase 'Clean' Wind Power
    10/1/02
    The University at Buffalo announced today an agreement with Community Energy, Inc., that makes UB the first campus in the State University of New York system to buy a portion of its electrical power from a commercial supplier of wind-generated power.
  • High Starting Salaries, Expanded Roles Mean Opportunities for Pharmacists Have Never Been Better
    8/22/02
    A nationwide shortage of pharmacists, entry-level salaries as high as $100,000 and the expanded role pharmacists are playing in health-care delivery have boosted interest and prompted expansion in the professional pharmacy program at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and similar programs nationwide.
  • 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.