Health and Medicine

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  • UB Investigates How Technology Can Enhance Learning And Lower Instructional Costs
    8/27/99
    The University at Buffalo this fall will begin a two-year project to design and pilot a course in information technology that is expected to enhance the quality of teaching and increase learning while reducing instructional costs by 46 percent.
  • Former President Bush To Speak At UB On Sept. 29
    8/27/99
    Former U.S. President George Bush will kick off the University at Buffalo's 12th Annual Distinguished Speaker Series at 8 p.m. Sept. 29 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Receives $2 Million Federal Grant To Establish Information Center For Rehabilitation Research
    8/12/99
    The University at Buffalo has received a five-year, $2 million federal grant to establish a center for collecting and disseminating information on international research and practices in rehabilitation that underscores the prominence of the programs in the UB School of Health Related Professions.
  • UB Group Brings High-Quality Videoconferencing And Streaming Video To The Desktop
    8/10/99
    How long will it be before you can participate in a videoconference or "visit" with an overseas client without leaving your desk? If a recent experiment at the University at Buffalo is any indication, it could be much sooner than many people think.
  • Coming Soon To Your Desktop: Advanced Internet Videoconferencing
    7/23/99
    The enormous potential of both telemedicine and high-grade distance learning may be one giant step closer to being realized if an experimental, three-way demonstration of advanced Internet videoconferencing technology on July 27 involving the University at Buffalo, Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) in Buffalo, Ohio State University, the Jackson Laboratory and others goes off without a hitch.
  • UB to Offer Another Session of Mini-Medical School
    7/20/99
    UB’s Mini-Medical School will be in session for the public this summer, offering a four-session course during August on medical grand rounds.
  • UB Parent-Program Coordinator Offers Advice to Parents of Soon-to-Be College Students
    7/9/99
    Toby Shapiro, University at Buffalo parent-program coordinator, has one major piece of advice for parents of this fall's crop of new college students: "Always keep the lines of communication open."
  • From God to Golf: UB Priest Offers Golfers’ Mass
    7/6/99
    It's 6:45 on a glorious Sunday morning and golfers are exchanging greetings -- but not on the links. They're in the University at Buffalo's Newman Center chapel, where Rev. Msgr. J. Patrick Keleher, director of the Catholic Campus Ministry at the university, offers a Golfers' Mass every Sunday during the summer.
  • UB Law Alumna Receives MacArthur “Genius” Grant
    7/2/99
    University at Buffalo Law School alumna Sara Horowitz, who created a new organization called Working Today to provide benefits and services to people working in temporary, part-time, contract or independent employment, has been awarded a prestigious "genius" fellowship from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
  • Advances in Information Technology Are Not Likely to Replace Books in Libraries, UB Experts Say
    6/18/99
    One aspect of the rich and complex history of human knowledge -- its recording, transmission and preservation -- has been altered irrevocably by the advancement of information technology. But the replacement of a libraries' millions of bound volumes by electronic versions is no more than a twinkle in the eye of someone who is not a librarian, University at Buffalo librarians say.