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  • UB's Beth Tauke Takes Top Housing Industry Prize for Home for Baby Boomers
    2/10/12
    A concept home designed with the help of Beth Tauke, associate professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has received a coveted 2012 Best of 50+ Housing Award from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Housing Council for a home that meets the physical needs and lifestyle of baby boomers.
  • UB Ranked Among 'Best Values for 2012' By Princeton Review
    2/7/12
    The University at Buffalo is among the nation's top 75 "best value" public colleges and universities, according to The Princeton Review's annual national survey of American colleges and universities.
  • MLK Speech in Buffalo 45 Years Ago is a Legacy for UB's Annual Commemoration Lecture
    2/6/12
    On Feb. 16, popular author and broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien will deliver the University at Buffalo's 36th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Lecture at Buffalo's Kleinhans Music Hall. Her talk comes 45 years after King himself addressed an audience at Kleinhans at the invitation of the UB Graduate Student Association (GSA).
  • Back from the Gulf Coast, Students Reflect on Experience Volunteering to Help Restore Wetlands
    2/3/12
    Back from a weeklong service learning trip to Louisiana, three University at Buffalo undergraduates took time to reflect on their experiences on the Gulf Coast.
  • UB's New Medical Research Building Will Benefit Patients and the Region
    2/2/12
    The stage is set for some important medical advances at the University at Buffalo's Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC). The new UB facility will be housed in the top four floors of the new $291 million joint UB-Kaleida Health building now under construction at Goodrich and Ellicott streets on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
  • Eleventh Annual "Give Kids a Smile Day" Set for Feb. 3
    1/30/12
    The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine will mark eleven years of providing free treatment to Western New York children who don't have access to dental care when they hold their annual "Give Kids a Smile Day" on Feb. 3 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Squire Hall on UB's South Campus.
  • WNED to take Ownership of WBFO March 1
    1/25/12
    Western New York Public Broadcasting Association and the University at Buffalo are pleased to announce that WBFO-FM 88.7 will become a part of the WNED family of public radio and television stations effective Thursday, March 1.
  • $1 Million Donation from Anonymous Faculty Member Will Create Fund to Commercialize UB Research
    1/23/12
    A University at Buffalo faculty member has anonymously donated $1 million to the university to establish a fund that supports commercializing the discoveries and inventions of his UB colleagues. The donation will establish the Bruce Holm Memorial Catalyst Fund, named for the UB senior vice provost who died last year and whom UB President Satish K. Tripathi described as "the exemplification of researcher, educator, collaborator and entrepreneur."
  • UB Alumni Association to Present Six Scholarships
    1/20/12
    A total of $7,500 in scholarship money will be awarded to six University at Buffalo students during the UB Alumni Association scholarship dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, in the Center for the Tomorrow on the North Campus.
  • New Bioanalytical Instrumentation Updates International Pharmacology Training Lab
    1/12/12
    Chiedza Maponga '88, director of the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) pharmacy program, knows that he alone can't treat the hundreds of thousands of patients with HIV in his native country. But he believes he can do it with help. This year, help arrived in the form of four graduate students who traveled with Maponga from Zimbabwe to the University at Buffalo to train in a collaborative program that prepares them to treat HIV/AIDS patients.