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  • Class Size Matters in Grades K-3 When It Comes to Long-Term Academic Success and Reducing Achievement Gap
    7/17/01
    Researchers who have studied the issue of the impact of class size on the performance of children now have incontrovertible evidence that even a few early years of study in a small class of 13-17 peers will enhance a student's academic achievement all the way through high school.
  • Freeman Grant to Fund Annual China Trip for Students in UB Management Honors Program
    7/12/01
    The Freeman Foundation has awarded a $152,775 grant to the University at Buffalo School of Management to fund an annual educational trip to China for students enrolled in the school's Joseph T.J. Stewart Honors Program.
  • UB Announces Plans for Fifth New Housing Complex
    6/27/01
    As construction on its 540-bed Flint Village student housing project nears completion, the University at Buffalo is turning its attention to what administrators say is a pressing need for housing for graduate, professional and married students. UB plans to break ground in August on another residential complex, the fifth such project in five years. Located along Skinnersville Road on the northern edge of the North (Amherst) Campus near the Ellicott Complex, the project is slated for completion in August 2002.
  • Avandia® May Reduce Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
    6/26/01
    The oral anti-diabetes drug Avandia® (rosiglitazone maleate) may decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, according to data presented at the American Diabetes Association's 61st Scientific Sessions.
  • UB Uses Instant Messaging to Recruit Prospective Students
    6/26/01
    Recognizing that for many teens email has become passé, the University at Buffalo is among the first universities in the country to utilize instant messaging (IM) -- the preferred method of online communication of American teens -- to communicate with prospective students.
  • University at Buffalo, Michigan State University "Reinvent" a Major Journal of the Americas
    6/19/01
    The benefits to an educational institution of editorial involvement with a major scholarly journal are intangible and, in any case, hard to calculate. Nevertheless, David E. Johnson, assistant professor of comparative literature in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, and his colleague Scott Michaelsen, associate professor of English at Michigan State University, have taken on the co-editorship and concurrent "reinvention" of just such a journal -- CR: The New Centennial Review.
  • Program Lists UB Events Marking Pan-Am Centennial
    6/8/01
    Free lectures on hygienic cookery. Demonstrations in wireless telegraphy. Visits to heaven and hell for 25 cents, with a trip to the moon at half price. Moving pictures or ostrich-watching, a dime apiece. Just as the Pan-American Exposition brought its patrons daily programs to keep them current on activities and exhibits -- the aforementioned activities took place on Oct. 19, 1901 -- so, too, is the University at Buffalo, which has published a souvenir program marking "UB Pan-Am 2001 Days."
  • The Sports World Wrongly Empowers Male Athletes at Great Expense to Women, Says UB Sports Historian
    6/6/01
    The past few decades seem to have marked a sea of change in public regard for female athletes. Does this signal a broader social definition of what it is to be female and feminine in American society? Emphatically no, says Susan Cahn, a distinguished and widely published scholar of sports history at the University at Buffalo.
  • 12-Hour ADHD Drug as Effective as Thrice Daily Doses
    6/4/01
    A new 12-hour formulation of the most commonly prescribed drug for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, has proved to be as effective as the standard three-times-a-day dosing regimen, a clinical trial conducted by University at Buffalo researchers has shown.
  • Alfiero Family Donation of $2 Million to Benefit UB School of Management
    6/1/01
    Motivated by a desire to give back to the community where he founded and grew his business enterprises and raised his family, Sal H. Alfiero has made a generous gift to the University at Buffalo School of Management to be used for construction of a new structure to be built adjacent to and connected with the Jacobs Management Center.