Education

It's an annual rite of spring: high school seniors discussing with their parents one of the most important decisions they face -- where to attend college. Luke Scannell from Schodack Landing near Albany, now a freshman in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, remembers how he decided to come to UB.

Imagine being the person who really understands global warming or stem cell research or genetically modified foods, the one others go to when they need a clear and accurate explanation of the seemingly mysterious issues of science that affect everyone's daily life. Now imagine tapping into that knowledge as a professional skill. That's the reasoning behind Science and the Public, a new master's degree program offered by the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education in conjunction with the Center for Inquiry, a not-for-profit organization devoted to public education about reason and science.

University at Buffalo Director of Athletics Warde J. Manuel was honored in today's Street and Smith Sports Business Journal among the national "Forty Under 40" award winners -- a designation reserved for the best and brightest executives in the sports business industry under the age of 40.

As part of a national program to help internationalize higher education in that country, one of Vietnam's most competitive universities has entered into a partnership with the University at Buffalo to begin teaching UB's undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum to its own students next fall.

Governor Eliot L. Spitzer made the University at Buffalo his first stop yesterday on a statewide tour to build support for his $4 billion higher-education endowment fund to help make New York State's public higher education system one of the best in the country.

V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education -- allowing not mere observation, but physically simulated dissection -- has been developed and is being marketed by Tactus Technologies

Increases in young women's drinking during the transition from high school through the first year of college can have dangerous physical, sexual and psychological implications, according to a report out of the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.

Jean K. Brown, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, professor and interim dean of the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, has been named dean of the school following a national search, it was announced today by David L. Dunn, M.D., Ph.D., UB vice president for health sciences.

Electricity purchases and on-campus natural gas heating are the single greatest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions at the University at Buffalo, according to the first quantitative study on how UB impacts the environment.

Computer scientists in the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have been working with their colleagues in UB's Graduate School of Education to develop a computational tool that not only dramatically reduces the time it takes to grade children's handwritten essays, but that also may help boost students' reading comprehension skills.