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  • University at Buffalo, Jane Goodall Institute to Launch International Online Environmental Education Project
    8/8/00
    The University at Buffalo is launching a major, online, environmental-education project with the Jane Goodall Institute and its founder, primatologist Jane Goodall. The project, "Taking Gombe to the World Through Technology," was developed in connection with the 40th anniversary of Goodall's internationally regarded primate research project in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park.
  • UB to Offer Doctorate in Audiology
    7/21/00
    The University at Buffalo has received approval to offer a doctor of audiology degree (Au.D.), one of less than 10 in the United States, beginning in the Fall 2000 semester.
  • UB Technology Improves Distance Learning in Caribbean
    6/29/00
    After years of limited access on the part of students, higher education in the Caribbean received a major boost this summer when the University at Buffalo put the region's first distance-learning WebBoard online at the University of the West Indies (UWI).
  • UB’s Love Canal Archival Collections Document Important Chapter in Environmental Movement
    6/19/00
    The tragic aspects of Love Canal are always at the forefront of our memory of that disaster, but a newly-opened collection of archival materials provides conclusive evidence that what happened in that community should be a source of enormous pride for the Western New York region.
  • UB Law Professor Judy Scales-Trent Wins Fulbright Award
    6/5/00
    Judy Scales-Trent, professor of law at the University at Buffalo, has received a Fulbright award to conduct research and teach in Senegal during the 2000-2001 academic year.
  • UB Initiative To Provide Unique Experiences For Students, Research Services To WNY Companies And Not-For-Profits
    5/18/00
    Deborah K. W. Walters, Ph.D., and Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been awarded a $150,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to develop a community-linked interdisciplinary research (CLIR) program for undergraduate students at UB.
  • New Certificate In Computational Science Will Boost Marketability Of UB Students
    5/18/00
    An advanced-certificate program in computational science designed to train science-and-engineering graduate students at the University at Buffalo in scientific computing has been approved by the New York State Education Department and the Chancellor of the State University of New York.
  • UB Study Suggests Ways To Improve Elementary Students’ Language-Arts Skills
    5/15/00
    Working with the students and teachers at Public School 40 in the City of Buffalo, a doctoral student in educational psychology at the University at Buffalo may have developed a solution to the situation faced by students who are having difficulty achieving the new writing standards required to pass New York State’s new English Language Arts Test.
  • Fannie Mae Corp. Contributes $20,000 To UCI Housing Project
    5/12/00
    Fannie Mae Corp. has contributed an additional $20,000 to help the University Community Initiative (UCI) continue with its housing acquisition, rehabilitation and resale program in the University Heights neighborhood of Buffalo.
  • New Gift From Anonymous Donor, Expanded Support For UB Distinguished Honors Scholars Program
    5/11/00
    The University at Buffalo's Distinguished Honors Scholars Program will graduate its largest group of honors scholars -- 23 -- this month, thanks to an anonymous donor whose scholarship gifts are setting a precedent.