Education

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

  • UB Program Offers Video Arts as a Teaching Tool to City Students
    7/25/07
    City Voices City Visions is a partnership between UB and the Buffalo Public Schools that provides teachers in grades 6-12 with innovative approaches to using digital video arts as a literacy tool in their classrooms. The goal is to raise the academic achievement -- and thus increase the post-graduate opportunities -- of these students, who attend classes in a variety of urban neighborhoods.
  • UB Launches Master Planning Effort to Grow and Transform Campus Environment
    7/9/07
    The effort to grow the University at Buffalo and dramatically transform its three campuses has taken a major step forward with the awarding of a master planning contract to a team of internationally renowned architectural, planning, landscape and design firms.
  • U.S. Theoretical Physicists Organize To Stem 'Outsourcing'
    7/5/07
    A consortium of theoretical physicists co-founded by a University at Buffalo faculty member has been created to train more U.S. graduate students in theoretical high-energy particle physics calculations to counter "outsourcing" in their field that has allowed the U.S. to lag behind in this area of high-profile, global science.
  • Wang Wins Award for Research, Scholarship in Learning Technologies
    6/21/07
    The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has bestowed one of its top awards to X. Christine Wang, assistant professor of learning and instruction in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education.
  • UB Receives National Honor for Strides for Female Student-Athletes
    6/5/07
    The University at Buffalo has been recognized by the Women's Sports Foundation as one of four "standout" colleges and universities in the nation for making significant strides in providing equitable athletic opportunities for its female student-athletes.
  • Buffalo "City Girl" to Conduct Research in the Arctic
    5/22/07
    Monica Ridgeway, a University at Buffalo undergraduate entering her senior year, knows that when people think of a scientist, they usually think of a white male in a lab coat; but not too far in the future, she hopes they will envision someone more like herself, a young African-American woman with a head full of braids who is curious about correlations between frozen mud and global warming.
  • Working with Inuit Community Is Part of Scientific Expedition
    5/16/07
    Research on global warming is drawing scientists in increasing numbers to the world's polar regions. But as scientists make more journeys northward, some of them find that their mission now extends beyond the ice or sediment samples they will bring back to their labs to analyze.
  • UB Delegation to Celebrate Unique Program with University of Havana
    5/16/07
    University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson will lead a UB delegation that will travel to Havana, Cuba, to attend ceremonies marking the fourth graduation of the Master's of Humanities (MAH) Program in Caribbean Cultural Studies jointly operated by UB and the University of Havana.
  • Conference to Focus on Teaching Biology and Microbiology
    5/1/07
    The 14th American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) will be held in the University at Buffalo's Natural Sciences Complex on UB's North (Amherst) Campus on May 18-20.
  • Bennis, Gross to Receive Honorary Degrees
    4/30/07
    Former University at Buffalo administrator Warren Bennis, an internationally known expert in leadership, and National Public Radio personality and UB alumna Terry Gross have been selected to receive honorary degrees from the State University of New York.