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  • UB Program Links WNY High Schools with Peers in Costa Rica
    12/8/00
    Students in two Buffalo area high schools and one in Costa Rica have shared three classes virtually this semester as the result of a pilot program spearheaded by the Center for Applied Technologies in Education at the University at Buffalo. The program is the first of its kind for UB and Central America, and the only such program currently taking place in the United States.
  • UB to Offer First SUNY Doctorate in Physical Therapy
    12/1/00
    The University at Buffalo in 2001 will join an elite group of universities in the United States that offer a doctorate in physical therapy (DPT). The UB doctoral program will be the first within the State University of New York system.
  • Institute Releases First State of the Region Progress Report
    11/29/00
    The Buffalo-Niagara region has experienced definite, if incremental, progress over the last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth.
  • UB, City of Buffalo Join Upstate Alliance Aiming to Increase Commercialization of New Products
    11/17/00
    The University at Buffalo has joined a new alliance of upstate New York education, industry and government partners that aims to generate economic success in the western part of the state.
  • Project Aiming to Increase Organ, Tissue Donation Focuses on Educating Middle-School, High-School Students
    11/17/00
    Working to educate children to deliver to their families the important messages about organ donation is the focus of a new program, "Talk it Up," being launched by the University at Buffalo and Upstate New York Transplant Services (UNYTS).
  • Bicoastal Classrooms, Virtual Prison Doctors Result of UB Expertise in Internet Videoconferencing
    11/15/00
    In their most harried moments, professors trying to balance the demands of teaching, research and family may feel that the only solution to their overloaded schedules is to be in two places at once. And now -- for better or worse -- they can as the result of advances in high-quality Internet videoconferencing pioneered, in part, by the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Course Teaches MBA Students How to be Entrepreneurs
    11/14/00
    Can a business school really teach a subject as intangible as "how to be an entrepreneur?" University at Buffalo School of Management professor John Hannon thinks so, as do the 31 MBA students enrolled in his new entrepreneurship course, which began this fall.
  • A New “Anti-Biography” of Composer Franz Schubert Undoes 150 Years of Distortion and Trivialization
    11/8/00
    The life and character of composer Franz Schubert have been variously sketched in treacle and brimstone by biographers. But a critically acclaimed new biography by a University at Buffalo Schubert scholar presents a far more balanced and empathetic portrait of the man and his career.
  • UB School of Social Work to Open V.I.S.A. Center for Students Suspended from School for Violence
    10/31/00
    The University at Buffalo School of Social Work has announced the opening of a new center aimed at meeting the educational, emotional and behavioral needs of students who have been suspended from school for disruptive behavior and acts of violence.
  • UB Signs Contract with Microsoft to Provide Software to More than 29,000 Students, Faculty and Staff
    10/24/00
    An agreement between the University at Buffalo and Microsoft will put into the hands of every one of UB's students and faculty and staff members the newest, most popular Microsoft software on the market while saving the university more than a quarter of a million dollars per year.