Education

News about UB’s graduate education programs and our partnerships with local schools. (see all topics)

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  • Kiplinger's Ranks UB as One of the "Best Values" in Public Higher Education
    1/4/11
    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.
  • Top UB Engineering Students Won't Pay a Dime From Freshman Year Through the PhD
    12/8/10
    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.
  • UB's Ken Takeuchi is Carnegie Foundation's New York Professor of the Year
    11/18/10
    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.
  • UB Now Ranks 12th Among Top U.S. Campuses In International Enrollment
    11/17/10
    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.
  • Graduate School of Education Receives Grant to Train Special Education Faculty Members
    11/16/10
    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.
  • University at Buffalo Expert Praises Federal Government's Anti-bullying Initiative
    10/26/10
    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.
  • UB President John B. Simpson to Retire
    8/30/10
    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.
  • Never Mind the 'Freshman 15,' How Do You Prevent the 'Freshman $15,000'?
    8/26/10
    College freshmen nationwide are heading to campus armed with credit cards and ready to rack up debt. They know how to squeeze the trigger on purchases but often they don't have experience in handling the aftermath of debt. And many of them are making financial decisions for the first time.
  • Thousands of Hours of Community Service in Buffalo to be Completed by UB Honors Students; Weekend Tour to Kick-Off Course
    8/24/10
    Freshman honors scholars from the University at Buffalo will tour Buffalo on Aug. 29, sightseeing and visiting civic organizations to kick-off a semester-long colloquium during which they will complete nearly 10,000 hours of community service in the city.
  • Student 'Cephalover,' Blogs About Tentacled Species
    8/13/10
    Mike Lisieski, a University at Buffalo psychology major, plans to earn an MD/PhD in neuroscience but for now he appears to be the web's chief "cephalover," using his blog cephalove to carefully analyze research about octopuses and related animals and post stunning photographs of them.