Student Life

News about the student experience at UB. (see all topics)

  • High-School Students' Financial Knowledge Is Lacking, UB Study Finds
    4/13/00
    When it comes to such personal finance topics as paying taxes, using a credit card or saving toward retirement, today's high-school seniors know less than their colleagues did three years ago, according to survey results compiled by Lewis Mandell, dean of the School of Management at the University at Buffalo.
  • 10 Years Of Proactive Community Policing Build Campus Teamwork, Make UB A Safer Place
    4/10/00
    In 1989, the Department of Public Safety at the University at Buffalo underwent a major change when it became one of the first colleges or universities to adopt a new philosophy, management style and organizational strategy known as community policing. Today, more than 10 years later, the department is seeing the results in a safer campus environment.
  • “Operation Mother Hen” Web-Based Review Tool Helps UB Students Struggling With Calculus
    4/7/00
    The Department of Mathematics in the UB College of Arts and Sciences has teamed up with UB Science and Engineering Node Services staff to develop "Operation Mother Hen," a unique Web-based review tool that has virtually banished the old survival-of-the-fittest mentality for "Introduction to Calculus" at UB. In its place is a system that acts like a nurturing "mother hen," rescuing and supporting students who are struggling with the material.
  • UB Program Strives To Make Freshman Year For Engineering Students Kinder and Gentler (If Not Easier)
    4/7/00
    The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has begun the Student Excellence Initiatives, a unique program that aims to make freshman year for engineering students easier to manage academically and less emotionally agonizing.
  • At Contaminated Brownfields Site, UB Chemistry Students Use Science to Clear the Air Between Residents and Government
    4/5/00
    Armed with small chemical sensors, knowledge of analytical chemistry techniques and serious dedication, undergraduate students in chemistry Professor Joseph A. Gardella's class at the University at Buffalo are on a mission: They are using science and communication skills to help bridge the gap between government and residents of a Buffalo subdivision that is a contaminated former brownfield.
  • Grateful Surgeon And Alumna Gives Scholarship Gift To UB’s School Of Medicine And Biomedical Sciences
    3/24/00
    University at Buffalo alumna Adele M. Gottschalk, M.D. '67, has given a $225,000 gift to support scholarships for students in UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Witherspoon Named UB Men’s Basketball Coach
    3/10/00
    The University at Buffalo named Reggie Witherspoon its head men’s basketball coach today (March 10) following a three-month national search.
  • UB Develops High-Quality IP-Based Videoconferencing System
    3/8/00
    Information-technology specialists at the University at Buffalo have developed a revolutionary production-grade, PC-based, high-performance, video-conferencing system that is portable and available at a much lower price than was previously possible.
  • Grant To Advance Case-Study Approach To Teaching Science
    2/28/00
    A University at Buffalo professor who says his mission in life is to revolutionize the teaching of science has received an $800,000 grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to do just that.
  • “SNAP” Offers Computers To Financially Strapped Freshmen
    2/28/00
    The so-called "digital divide" between the "haves" -- those who can afford computer access -- and the "have nots" has been erased, at least in the freshman class at the University at Buffalo. Thanks to the university's Students Needing Assistance Program (SNAP) and its corporate partners financial hardship simply is not an issue for 264 freshmen, at least where computers are concerned.