Education

Physical and relational bullying can happen among children as young as 3- to 5-years-old, but the results of a new study suggest that a  short intervention program can lead to significant reductions in these behaviors.

Nearly 90 fifth graders from West Hertel Academy tested their science, technology, engineering and math skills on March 1 by 3-D printing model wind turbines, building light-powered LEGO cranes and learning how GPS is used to locate shared bikes.

Sam Wineburg, an education professor at Stanford University, will discuss “The Role of a School of Education in a Public Research University” during a talk on Feb. 29 at UB.

Delivery rooms and intensive care units are now open to students seeking clinical experience within the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, the first program in Buffalo to offer the specialties to students.

UB will host the 13th annual Safe Schools Initiative Seminar, “Preventing and Responding to Violent Threats: Tools for Schools and Law Enforcement,” March 16, in the Center for the Arts,  UB North Campus. 

Online degree programs offered by UB’s Graduate School of Education and School of Nursing were named among the best online programs by U.S. News & World Report.

Applications to UB are 10.3 percent higher than at this time last year, and university officials are attributing the increase partly to greater awareness of UB’s status as one of the nation’s top public universities.

UB Engineering Dean Liesl Folks will be keynote speaker.

From robot bees to designer neurons, here are highlights from a great year of research.

For UB education professor Nathan J. Daun-Barnett, hundreds of completed student financial aid applications that might never have been successfully filed are not enough.