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  • UB Will Internationalize Mechanical Engineering in Vietnam
    2/20/08
    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.
  • Spitzer Says Endowment Fund Will Transform SUNY, Help Realize UB 2020
    2/14/08
    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' Virtual-Reality Frog Dissection Software Offers First True Physical Simulation
    2/8/08
    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
  • A Dangerous Transition: High School to the First Year of College
    2/7/08
    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 Brown Named Dean of UB School of Nursing
    2/1/08
    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.
  • Report Is First to Quantify UB's Impact on the Environment
    1/24/08
    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.
  • Software That Grades Handwritten Essays May Boost Comprehension, Too
    1/14/08
    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.
  • How Vulnerable Is New York?
    12/28/07
    How prepared is New York for another terrorist attack or major disaster? That's the question a group of researchers and disaster-response experts will discuss at a two-day conference addressing ways to protect New York City and New York State.
  • UB Researcher's Work Leads to Dismissal of Charges in 86-Year-Old Tulsa 'Race Riot' Case
    11/30/07
    It was while researching the history of African-Americans in Oklahoma that Barbara Nevergold, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo came across the name of Andrew J. Smitherman in the records of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.
  • UB Maintains Leadership Position in International-Student Enrollment
    11/13/07
    The University at Buffalo continues to maintain its leadership position among America's major public research universities in terms of percentage of enrollment represented by international students, according to the latest annual "Open Doors" report of the Institute of International Education (IIE).