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  • We Actually "Become" Happy Vampires or Contented Wizards When Reading a Book
    5/9/11
    Bad news for muggle parents! A new study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo finds that we more or less "become" vampires or wizards just by reading about them.
  • UB to Hold 165th Commencement on May 15
    5/5/11
    More than 5,500 students are candidates to receive degrees during the University at Buffalo's 165th general commencement and 14 other commencement ceremonies to be held through May 21.
  • Entrepreneurship Competition Awards more than $10,000 to Info Tech Company
    5/3/11
    More than $10,000 in seed funding was awarded to an information technology company that won first place in the University at Buffalo's Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC).
  • Nancy Nielsen Is Appointed to One-Year Health Policy Role in Washington, DC
    4/29/11
    Nancy Nielsen, MD, PhD, former head of the Office of Medical Education in the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and past president of the American Medical Association, has been named to a health policy leadership role in Washington, D.C. In her federal role, Nielsen has been recruited to serve a one-year appointment as senior advisor for stakeholder engagement at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
  • Exhibition of Paintings by Will Harris at Anderson Gallery May 14 to Aug. 7
    4/26/11
    The University at Buffalo will present an exhibition of paintings by Willard "Will" Russell Harris (1933-2008), a 30-year faculty member of the UB Department of Art, May 14 to Aug. 7 in the Anderson Gallery, One Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo.
  • Batta Named Acting Dean of UB Engineering
    4/25/11
    Rajan Batta, associate dean for graduate studies in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been named acting dean of the school by Harvey G. Stenger Jr., interim provost and vice president for academic affairs.
  • American Basic Economic Security Much Different than 'Poverty Line,' UB Researcher Says
    4/22/11
    A University at Buffalo School of Social Work professor is helping redefine the country's definition of being poor with research that shows the dramatic difference between achieving "basic economic security" and the federal government's "poverty line."
  • UB Student Association's Green Group Wins 2011 Good Going Award for Best Earth Day Outreach
    4/22/11
    Scarcely a year into its existence, the Environmental Affairs Department of the University at Buffalo Undergraduate Student Association (SA) has been awarded the 2011 Good Going Award for Best Earth Day Outreach for an Organization.
  • UB Launches Life Sciences Academy at West Seneca Central School District
    4/21/11
    The iSciWNY workforce development program, created by the University at Buffalo's New York Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and Educational Opportunity Center (EOC), is collaborating with the West Seneca Central School District to create a first-of-its-kind academy that links high school students with potential employers in Western New York's growing life sciences industry.
  • Primordial Weirdness: Did the Early Universe Have One Dimension?
    4/20/11
    That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010.