Education

Doesn't anyone want to be a school superintendent anymore? Not according to several experts who will speak on July 14 at a program on "The Changing Face of School Leadership: Implications for Preparation and Practice" sponsored by the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo.

The applications don't say "Santa's Helpers Wanted," but students who participate in this summer's Fisher-Price Cyber-Engineering High School Workshop at the University at Buffalo will be designing toys as they learn state-of-the-art engineering design techniques.

The Western New York community has a new user-friendly way to learn about the University at Buffalo's local impact and to access the university's services and programs with the new "Your UB" Web site.

Mathematics will be the subject of the day on May 18 and May 19 when the University at Buffalo welcomes hundreds of elementary and middle-school students who will conduct presentations and participate in individual and team competitions designed to engage area elementary and middle-school students in math.

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, professor in the Department of Geography in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a fellow of the American Council on Education (ACE) for 2006-07.

A University at Buffalo researcher has co-authored a study that found that the mission statements of most top U.S. colleges and universities do not make clear their expectations for undergraduate education.

A unique educational collaboration is providing University at Buffalo law and MBA students with a new gateway to New York City's international financial markets and highly competitive financial-sector job market.

Imagine wiping 1,500 cars -- and all their fossil fuel emissions -- right off the road. That's equivalent to what the University at Buffalo has accomplished as a major green power purchaser, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which just named UB one of its Top 10 College and University Green Power Partners.

In the quiet of his office in the University at Buffalo Law School, Makau Mutua contemplates his role in exposing an elaborate scheme of government fraud in his native Kenya, where high-ranking officials have resigned in recent weeks, rocking the country's ruling government headed by President Mwai Kibaki.

The University at Buffalo is leading the way in energy savings as the first university in the country to completely replace its campus-wide beverage vending machines with green technology, saving $21,000 a year on electricity costs.