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  • Through Science, Alumni Give Back to Buffalo Schools
    12/28/12

    Two Hutch Tech graduates — now scientists — return to the Buffalo Public Schools to work with teachers and students in a science education program.

  • National Documentary Project Features Buffalo Science Education Program
    12/5/12
    A program that's bringing Android apps and miniature racecars into science classrooms in Buffalo schools is the latest subject of Bus 52, a national documentary project that is traveling across America to film people who are confronting community challenges in inventive ways.
  • UB's Gifted Math Program Challenges Buffalo's Brightest Students
    12/5/12
    David Wang was underachieving in math class because he was too smart. The seventh grader at Transit Middle School simply lost interest in the subject. What he needed was a challenge. His father decided to reignite his son's curiosity in math by enrolling him in the Gifted Math Program (GMP), an after-school, advanced mathematics program for middle and high school students at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Study Examines Role of Counselors in Preparing Students for College
    11/14/12
    With SAT and college application deadlines around the corner, high school seniors have enough on their plates to be stressed about until the holidays. But college admissions season is providing high school counselors with their fair share of headaches as well.
  • High School Research Program Wins National Award for Investigating Niagara County Waters
    10/5/12
    University at Buffalo Professor of Chemistry Diana Aga, PhD, and Lewiston-Porter High School teachers Michelle Hinchliffe and Colleen Glor have won a national science education award for their efforts to train student scientists to measure pharmaceutical contamination in Niagara County waterways.
  • Media Advisory: Dozens of Buffalo Teachers to Showcase Summer Research Projects
    9/14/12
    Dozens of Buffalo STEM teachers and scientists will gather at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute on Tuesday, Sept. 18, to celebrate the conclusion of a summer program that paired the teachers and scientists together on cutting-edge research projects.
  • Drug Addiction, Anti-Bullying Programs and Gambling Are on the Agenda at UB Psychiatry Conference
    9/5/12
    Internationally renowned speakers from several fields in mental health will be featured at the Eighth Comprehensive Review of Psychiatry to be held Sept. 6-7, at The Conference and Event Center Niagara Falls. Sponsors are the Department of Psychiatry in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Western New York Psychiatric Society.
  • UB's Alberti Center to Address Cyberbullying at its Annual Conference
    9/5/12
    The University at Buffalo's Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention will present "Understanding and Addressing Cyberbullying" on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at the Millennium Hotel Buffalo in Cheektowaga. The conference will address current research and potential solutions to a problem that has become a nationwide concern.
  • Celebrate Returning to School at UB's Family Carnival
    8/28/12
    The University at Buffalo's Early Childhood Research Center will celebrate its 80th anniversary in style with a Family Carnival to be held from 1-4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, on UB's North Campus.
  • UB Grads Help Teachers Enjoy Taking on NYS Core Education Curriculum
    8/7/12
    At a time when "entrepreneurship" often refers to developing a new medical device, engineering method or software application, a successful new pursuit founded by two University at Buffalo graduates sells James Joyce, bioethics and "Notions of the American West."