Education

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  • National Award Honors UB Chemist Whose Classes Help Communities Resolve Environmental Problems
    3/10/03
    Joseph A. Gardella, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and associate dean for external affairs in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, this week will receive a national award recognizing his efforts working with communities affected by environmental hazards and using them as a backdrop against which he teaches undergraduate students about politics, society and analytical chemistry.
  • UB Receives $1 Million Grant to Train WNY Teachers Whose Students Have Limited English Proficiency
    1/8/03
    With a new four-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) has announced it will establish new teacher education programs designed to improve classroom instruction for students in Buffalo and rural Western New York schools who have limited English proficiency (LEP).
  • Regents Chancellor Robert Bennett Will Co-Teach UB Course on Public Schools Policy-Making
    1/6/03
    Robert Bennett, chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, will co-teach a three-credit graduate course at the University at Buffalo during the spring semester that will address many issues of significance to urban school systems.
  • At UB's CCR: 15 Million Pixels on a Wall-Sized Screen and a New Way to Collaborate Around the World, Virtually
    12/11/02
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo now are able to "meet" with colleagues across the state or across the globe without ever leaving campus using a new Access Grid node -- the first such facility at an academic institution in New York State -- in UB's Center for Computational Research. The center also is home to a new tiled-display wall, measuring 88 square feet, that displays visual information at 20 times the resolution of conventional large-format display screens and permits scientific visualizations in larger-than-life proportions.
  • UB Student Association Pledges $25,000 to Newly Established "Random Acts of Kindness Fund"
    12/9/02
    The University at Buffalo undergraduate Student Association (SA) has pledged $25,000 over five years to an endowment fund designed to help undergraduate students who are experiencing financial difficulties stay in school.
  • Researcher Debunks "Myth" that Asians Are, by Nature, More Academically Successful than Other Minorities
    12/4/02
    Guofang Li, Ph.D., is a Chinese native, academic researcher and assistant professor in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education. She seems the very model of the stereotypical Asian immigrant -- whom she describes as "intelligent, industrious, enduring, obedient, highly successful and joyfully initiated into North American life and English literacy." In reality, Li is out to dispel that stereotype and in study after study she has debunked the popular idea that Asian students are, by nature, better equipped to succeed academically than other minority groups.
  • How Children Perceive Urban Environments Is Focus of First Children's Geography Project
    11/27/02
    University at Buffalo geographers are embarking on a new project designed to find out how school-aged children relate to urban spaces, to create the first "children's geography of the inner city."
  • Researchers in UB Graduate School of Education Awarded Grants Totaling More Than $4.5 Million
    11/21/02
    Education researchers in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) have received more than $4.5 million dollars in federal grants in recent months.
  • UB Professor Emeritus and His Wife Establish Fund for Scholarships in Graduate School of Education
    10/26/02
    A retired professor in the Graduate School of Education and his wife have established a fund to benefit students interested in elementary mathematics instruction.
  • UB is First SUNY Campus to Purchase 'Clean' Wind Power
    10/1/02
    The University at Buffalo announced today an agreement with Community Energy, Inc., that makes UB the first campus in the State University of New York system to buy a portion of its electrical power from a commercial supplier of wind-generated power.