Education

The University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education has named Amanda Nickerson as director of its high-profile Jean M. Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse and School Violence.

University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi today submitted a proposal to the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant program in support of a $375 million plan to help revitalize Buffalo's economy by relocating UB's medical school to downtown Buffalo.

A news release sent out earlier today by the University at Buffalo included an incorrect figure for the financial aid program that will be financed by a proposed $200 per semester tuition increase. Families with annual incomes between $40,000 and $60,000 would see a tuition increase of $30 per semester. The original news release reported the tuition increase applied to families with annual incomes of between $40,000 and $50,000.

The University at Buffalo has announced the first recipients of a new award that recognizes faculty whose commitment to mentoring gives UB's undergraduates opportunities to conduct research and scholarship that are not routinely available at many institutions.

The National Science Foundation's e-Design Center has accepted the University at Buffalo as a full university member research site in its prestigious Industry-University Collaborative Research Center for e-Design.

University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo and SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher for the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program, a capital funding initiative involving UB, Albany, Binghamton and Stony Brook that is expected to make SUNY a leading catalyst for job growth throughout the state, as well as strengthening the academic programs of the four SUNY University Centers.

An increasingly influential national organization evaluating and grading teacher education programs misleads its audience by claiming to be "non-partisan" when, in reality, the group is part of a growing movement of "corporate education" reformers pushing an agenda of standardization and privatization at the expense of meaningful teaching and learning, according to a professor in the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education.

Viewers who log onto the University at Buffalo's falconcam to watch BB and Yankee, UB's resident peregrine falcon mom and dad, will see more of the couple's falcon chicks once they hatch and become mobile, thanks to the installation this spring of a second camera. Watch the live streaming video from both cameras at http://ubfalcon.buffalo.edu/

Researchers at a new University at Buffalo national research center say the United States lags behind in the struggle to address and prevent bullying, and have begun to detail how to help victims and stop what they call "child abuse by children."

The Buffalo Chips have done it again. The University at Buffalo's all-male a cappella group is set to compete for the second consecutive year in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella in New York City, Saturday, April 16.