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  • UB Students Raise Their 41st Buffalo Home for Habitat for Humanity
    6/9/08
    University at Buffalo undergraduate Mindy Underhill straddles a ceiling beam, checking the joists in a home going up on Buffalo's East Side. Underhill, a junior speech and hearing science major from Marilla, N.Y., is one of a team of young women working on what they call "the girls' house." It is one of four new homes being built this year by Habitat for Humanity with major assistance from 36 UB students, and it is the 41st such house since 1990.
  • New Technique Developed at UB for Teaching Math to Preschoolers 'Adds Up'
    6/5/08
    A program designed by University at Buffalo researchers to increase mathematics achievement in pre-kindergarten students has proven successful in a large-scale study in Buffalo and Boston.
  • UB's Literacy and Reading Center Accepting Applications for Fall Semester
    6/4/08
    The Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction, affiliated with the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education and dedicated to helping children struggling with reading or writing, is accepting applications for the fall semester.
  • Assad Named Dean of UB School Of Management
    5/16/08
    Arjang A. Assad, professor of management science and Dean's Professor for Extraordinary Service in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, has been named dean of the University at Buffalo School of Management. His appointment will be effective Aug. 1, 2008.
  • Area Teachers Help Teens Become Financially Savvy in Tough Times
    5/14/08
    More than 130 teachers from Western New York high schools are now using a Web-based curriculum called MoneySKILL™ to help their students develop personal finance skills, thanks to outreach efforts by the University at Buffalo School of Management and M&T Bank.
  • UB Physician, UCLA Colleague Criticize TV Ad Campaign
    5/14/08
    A "direct-to-consumer" advertising (DTCA) campaign shown on network television over the past six months touting the benefits of a specific stent device used to prop open clogged arteries should be viewed as "potentially deceptive," asserts a commentary co-authored by a University at Buffalo cardiologist in the current on-line issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
  • Pharmacy School Names New Home in Honor of Alumnus John N. Kapoor
    5/9/08
    An alumnus of the University at Buffalo considered a visionary leader in the pharmaceutical industry is giving back once again to the institution that three decades ago provided a fellowship that helped him to earn a doctoral degree and begin his highly successful career.
  • Makau Mutua Named Dean of UB Law School
    5/7/08
    Makau W. Mutua, recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities in the area of human rights law, has been named dean of the University at Buffalo Law School.
  • Policy Makers, Media Blamed for U.S., World Food Insecurity Problem
    5/5/08
    A food security expert at the University at Buffalo says the worldwide food crisis is a direct result of the choices made by policy makers and the lack of attention paid to the food system and its relationship to global warming and fossil fuels.
  • Math, Science Summer Camp Set for Top-Performing Buffalo Students
    5/5/08
    The University at Buffalo will conduct a mathematics and science summer camp in August for 50 high-achieving eighth graders in the Buffalo Public Schools, funded through a $100,984 grant from the New York State Education Department's Excelsior Scholars Program.