Student Life

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  • 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.
  • “Virtual Village” Helps UB Social-Work Students Learn To Solve Neighborhood Problems
    2/25/00
    Students in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo are hitting the streets of several urban neighborhoods this semester as they take a close look at issues faced by Buffalo communities. And they'll only have to look as far as their PCs to do it.
  • George Stephanopoulos To Speak At UB
    2/24/00
    George Stephanopoulos, ABC-TV news political analyst, author and former top aide and communications director in the Clinton Administration, will speak at 8 p.m. March 22 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Black Mathematicians, Other Scientists Find Community At UB Web Site
    2/23/00
    Even in 2000, African-Americans who are studying to be -- or already are -- mathematicians face a lonely proposition: only about one-quarter of 1 percent of all mathematicians in the United States are black. But many of them are finding a thriving community at the unique Web site created and maintained by a professor of mathematics at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB To Present First Major National Conference On Lives Of Urban Girls
    1/28/00
    The first major national conference held to explore the lives, strengths, problems and needs of young urban women will be held in Buffalo April 14-15. The keynote speaker will be Lani Guinier, professor of law at Harvard University.
  • Processors Donated By SGI Tackle “Standing Room Only” Issue At UB Center For Computational Research
    1/28/00
    An extremely enthusiastic response by University at Buffalo faculty to the year-old, high-performance computing facilities in the Center for Computational Research (CCR) has prompted the center to double the capacity of its most powerful machine, a 64-processor SGI Origin2000 supercomputer. By acquiring 64 additional processors and a high-speed interconnect, the CCR now has a 128-processor Origin2000 supercomputer.