The University at Buffalo's School of Social Work has recorded its 100,000th download to its "Living Proof" podcast series, a milestone the school's dean calls "a sign UB's School of Social Work's entrance into cyberspace is here to stay."
An innovative, educational computing platform developed by University at Buffalo faculty members and hosted by the cloud (remote, high-capacity, scalable servers) is helping UB students understand parts of evolutionary biology on an entirely new level. Soon, high-school and middle-school students will benefit from the same tool as well.
The immediate past secretary general of the influential human rights organization Amnesty International will teach two specialized seminars in human rights this spring at the University at Buffalo Law School.
The University at Buffalo provides a quality education at an affordable price, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance, which has placed UB on the magazine's 2011 list of the 100 Best Values in Public Colleges.
To attract and retain the most intellectually gifted students, the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the UB Honors College have announced the Presidential Scholarship/Doctoral Fellowship, which will provide full scholarships for qualified UB engineering students from freshman year through completion of their doctoral degrees.
The night before Ken Takeuchi started teaching Chemistry 101 back in 1983, he walked into the empty classroom in Acheson Hall on the University at Buffalo's South Campus, where he was about to begin his career.
The University at Buffalo, long a leader among major American research universities in the percentage of international students enrolled, ranked 12th among the top 25 U.S. campuses hosting international students in 2009-10, up from 2008-09, when it ranked 17th.
Six University at Buffalo doctorate students in the University at Buffalo/Buffalo State College Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education will receive up to $40,000 a year apiece in tuition assistance and a modest stipend, thanks to a highly competitive four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education designed to address a national and local shortage of highly skilled special-education teacher-educators.
The Department of Education's recent nationwide letter urging educators to combat bullying in their schools is a strong and significant message that this abusive behavior will no longer be tolerated, according to a University at Buffalo education professor instrumental in the university's new center to prevent bullying and school violence.
University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson announced today he plans to retire as UB's 14th president, effective Jan. 15, in order return to the West Coast with his wife, Katherine, and spend more time with family.