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  • Senate Committee Approves UB 2020 Bill
    5/20/09
    The UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act moved closer to passage today when the bill was approved by the New York State Senate Higher Education Committee.
  • Media Advisory: Kenyan Prime Minister to Speak at Niagara Falls, Gives UB Law School Commencement Speech
    5/19/09
    Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga will make his first trip to the U.S. since the election of President Barack Obama on Saturday, May 23, when he will make remarks and answer questions from the media from 9-11 a.m. at the Top of the Falls Restaurant on Goat Island in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and then give the University at Buffalo Law School commencement address 3 p.m. that day.
  • Media Advisory: Sunlight to Power UB
    5/7/09
    The University at Buffalo and the New York Power Authority will announce a major, multi-million-dollar project to construct a major, solar-energy array to provide power to the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Solar Energy to Power Student Apartments
    5/7/09
    In its effort to promote renewable energy technologies throughout New York State and in response to Governor Paterson's call to expand New York's renewable energy portfolio, the New York Power Authority today joined with the University at Buffalo to announce a $7.5 million award to the university to construct a 1.1 megawatt solar energy array on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • "Because Girls Can Do Anything"
    5/6/09
    With a storyline that is part international documentary and part reality series, a growing coalition of University at Buffalo educators and community members has set its sights on helping to build a school for girls in a remote Tanzanian village, a community enhancement that for these young girls will give them opportunity beyond the harsh limits of their reality.
  • Social Work Heads into Cyberspace
    5/4/09
    The University at Buffalo School of Social Work has put its ambitions to be a national leader in using digital technologies to teach the social work profession where they belong -- online.
  • World's Premier James Joyce Collection to Mount Major Exhibit in June
    4/30/09
    On June 13, the most extensive exhibition of material from the world's premier James Joyce Collection will open in Buffalo, N.Y., as part of Eire on the Erie, the 2009 North American Joyce Conferenece. "Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection," will feature a vast number of personal and literary artifacts related to the 20th century's most influential and intensely scrutinized writer.
  • Experience the Power of Learning Again: UB's Graduate School of Education Launches New Push for Lifelong Learners
    4/23/09
    The University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education has launched a series of new one-credit mini courses designed to reach educators and teachers interested in advancing their training while re-acquainting themselves with the practical and personal power of continuing education.
  • Endangered Falcons Settle into a Custom-Made Love Nest, Courtesy of UB
    4/15/09
    A pair of peregrine falcons has settled into its custom-made nesting box situated on top of MacKay Heating Plant on the University at Buffalo's South (Main Street) Campus, thanks to the cooperative efforts of the University at Buffalo and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
  • Kenyan Prime Minister to Deliver UB Law School Commencement Address
    4/13/09
    Republic of Kenya Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga will deliver the University at Buffalo Law School commencement address in a ceremony that will include conferral of honorary degrees to Irene Zubaida Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International, and J. Mason Davis Jr., a practicing attorney who played a key role in the desegregation of Alabama in the 1960s.