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  • Killer In The Closed Stacks!!! 25,000 Pulp-Fiction Paperbacks Thrill UB Librarians
    11/5/99
    One of his favorite pulp writers might describe George Kelley as "just one dirty guy doing a seedy job in a miserable world." But Kelley's life-long pursuit of cheap -- sometimes even cheesy -- paperbacks has the librarians at the University at Buffalo doing handsprings. That's because Kelley has made a gift to the UB Libraries of 25,000 pulp-fiction titles.
  • Virtual Teaching Tool Developed By UB Professor Attracts Attention Of Apple Computer
    11/5/99
    The work of a faculty member in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo to create a virtual teaching tool has attracted the attention of Apple Computer, Inc.
  • Veteran UB Medical “Trekker” Finds Recent Trip To Himalayas To Be Most Harrowing Mission
    10/29/99
    Richard Lee is a veteran "trekker." The founder and director of the University at Buffalo Medical Trek Program has made numerous trips overseas since the mid-1980s delivering medical treatment to indigenous populations all across the globe. But a 28-day mission last summer to India with 17 others to deliver medical treatment to the people of the Himalayas was the most harrowing by far.
  • UB To Establish Center For The Americas
    10/27/99
    The University at Buffalo will establish a Center for the Americas as an interdisciplinary teaching and research center in the College of Arts and Sciences to expand the university's curriculum and degree options in the field of American studies.
  • Information Studies School To Develop New Degree Programs
    10/22/99
    New degree programs related to issues and research on the human aspects of information transfer are being developed by the School of Information Studies (SIS) at the University at Buffalo. The school was formed July 1 when the School of Information and Library Studies (SILS) changed its name and merged with the Department of Communication.
  • Grand Opening Of Center For Computational Research Includes Visit By Pataki
    10/22/99
    Gov. George E. Pataki was the guest of honor Oct. 26 at the grand-opening ceremonies of the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research, one of the nation's leading supercomputing centers.
  • Minniefield Works To Increase Awareness Of Organ Donation In Minority Communities
    10/20/99
    William Minniefield's determination to convince the African-American community that organ donation is a good and necessary thing has resulted in a major grant award to the University at Buffalo and the regional transplant agency to accomplish that goal.
  • Bill Moyers To Speak At UB Nov. 3
    10/20/99
    Bill Moyers, well-known television program producer and host, journalist and author, will speak at 8 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Center for the Arts Mainstage theater on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Conference Set On How Shifts In Higher-Education Funding Restrict Access For Low-Income Students
    10/20/99
    The critical worldwide shift of higher-education costs from governments and taxpayers to students and their parents has raised serious concerns among educators here and abroad because it severely restricts access to higher education for millions of low-income students in many nations. To illuminate the problem and resolve the critical policy issues related to this crisis, the University at Buffalo will host a major international meeting of policy experts and researchers in higher-education finance on Nov. 14-16.
  • UB School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences To Honor First Woman Graduate
    10/14/99
    The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is honoring its first woman graduate, Dorothy Price ('49), with its first-ever Vital Partners award for individual achievement.