Education

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

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  • High-Tech Information Studies Class Creates E.B. Green Digital Library
    4/28/08
    A user-friendly and interactive digital library featuring the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society's archival collection of works of renowned architects E.B. Green and William S. Wicks is the latest creation of a University at Buffalo's Library and Information Studies course with a proven track record of providing international access to Western New York research material.
  • Less Geek, More Citizen: Computer Scientists Push Social Relevance
    4/28/08
    Michael F. Buckley, a University at Buffalo computer science lecturer, is leading a national movement to change the way computer science is taught in college. His students learn about Buddhism. They read "The Tao of Pooh." They visit a center for children with disabilities and are asked to design technologies that can improve the way these children live and learn.
  • UB Underscores Commitment to 'Green Campus' Planning
    4/22/08
    As environmentalists and citizens nationwide observe Earth Day, the University at Buffalo today reemphasized its commitment to achieving climate neutrality.
  • UB Establishes Institute for Jewish Thought, Heritage and Culture
    4/16/08
    The University at Buffalo has established the Institute for Jewish Thought, Heritage and Culture, a multidisciplinary research and academic degree-granting center that will focus scholarship on the critical role that Judaism has played in the development and communication of Western thought.
  • Law School Documentary Goes Behind Attica's Walls
    4/4/08
    Teresa Miller, a professor in the University at Buffalo Law School specializing in criminal punishment, is working with law school students to create a documentary film, "Encountering Attica," that focuses on prison inmates while demonstrating how new media can be used in the study of legal issues.
  • UB Creates Institute for European, Mediterranean Archaeology
    4/2/08
    The University at Buffalo will formally launch a new Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA) on April 3 with an inaugural ceremony and the institute's first academic conference on April 4 and 5.
  • "Strengthening Education" To Be Focus of Keynote Address
    3/26/08
    Arthur E. Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, will be the keynote speaker at a research symposium to be held by the UB Graduate School of Education on April 10 in the Buffalo/Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Hwy., Amherst.
  • Professor Creates Cyberspace Lesson Plans for Science Teachers
    3/26/08
    Teacher Julianne Chamberlin's eighth-grade physical science class is as fun as it is informative. For proof, just check her Web site. Chamberlin has adopted educational methods developed by Randy Yerrick, professor and associate dean of educational technology in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education. Using examples of effective teaching known as "inquiry learning" as a kind of cyberspace lesson plan, Yerrick has merged proven classroom methods with state-of-the-art technology, including podcasting, movie-making and digital photography.
  • Lois Weis Named Editor of Preeminent Educational Journal
    3/21/08
    Lois Weis, SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, has been named editor of the American Educational Research Journal, widely considered to be the most prestigious research journal in the education field.
  • U.N., UB and SUNY Partners Expand Microfinance Education
    3/17/08
    The University at Buffalo School of Management, the University at Albany's Center for International Development, the Levin Institute and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) have signed an agreement to expand a microfinance training program that explores why and how microfinance operations grow to provide financial services to low-income people on a sustainable basis.