Education

News about UB’s graduate education programs and our partnerships with local schools. (see all topics)

  • 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.
  • UB Law Professor Works To Make Legal Help Available To Prisoners
    10/13/99
    Teresa Miller is well-acquainted with the U.S. prison system, but not because she's spent time behind bars. The associate professor of law at the University at Buffalo has taught a course on international human rights to female inmates in Albion Correctional Facility, worked with prisoners at Attica, and served as a volunteer lawyer with a prison project in Miami.
  • Professor Peter Hare Gives Gifts Totalling $1 Million To Benefit UB Department Of Philosophy
    10/13/99
    A University at Buffalo philosophy professor is sharing more than his teaching excellence with UB's College of Arts and Sciences. Peter H. Hare, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy, has given two gifts totaling $1 million to support activities of the department.
  • UB Exceeds Fall Enrollment Targets
    10/11/99
    The University at Buffalo has exceeded its enrollment targets for full-time students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has increased its number of graduate students by more than 15 percent since last fall, according to UB's official enrollment-status report.
  • UB Exceeds Fall Enrollment Targets
    10/11/99
    The University at Buffalo has exceeded its enrollment targets for full-time students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has increased its number of graduate students by more than 15 percent since last fall, according to UB's official enrollment-status report.
  • Conference To Celebrate Century Of Women’s Contributions To University At Buffalo Law School
    10/1/99
    The University at Buffalo will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its first women graduates with a special centennial conference, "Sisters in Law: A Century of Achievement at UB," to be held Oct. 21-22. The conference will recognize the many remarkable women who have contributed to the betterment of the UB Law School community and the nation's legal profession over the past century.
  • UB School Of Engineering Industry-University Day To Present Council On Competitiveness Innovation Forum
    10/1/99
    Palo Alto, Calif. Albuquerque, N.M. Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo? That's right. Just as these two thriving sunbelt cities did this past spring, Buffalo will host a Council on Competitiveness presentation on innovation on Oct. 28 at the University at Buffalo. It will be held at noon in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Music Box Tops UB Periodontist’s Collectibles
    10/1/99
    Sebastian Ciancio, chair of the UB Department of Periodontology, is quite a collector, with an office that has hundreds of bottles, porcelain and metal tooth-powder containers, an old toothbrush with an ivory head, canisters of dental floss and empty bottles of mouthwash. But lately his collection has taken a different direction: music boxes.
  • After 30 Years, Gentile Remains Passionate About Teaching
    9/23/99
    Although he's been in the business for 30 years, Ronald J. Gentile still can recall an experience in class during the 1970s that changed his philosophy about teaching.
  • UB Professor Says Making “Connection” Is Key In Preventing Youth Suicide
    9/23/99
    Thomas T. Frantz has spent 25 years dealing with people affected by suicide, death, dying and grief, and has witnessed first-hand the pain that leads up to and lingers after a tragedy. That pain can be deadly for teen-agers, he says, and urges parents, teachers and friends to do their part in preventing youth suicide by making a connection with the troubled youth.