Carl Dennis, professor of English at the University at Buffalo, today was named recipient of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his eighth collection of poems, "Practical Gods" (Penguin Books).
In response to a new training priority identified by the Singapore Ministry of Education, the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education will offer a 36-credit hour Master of Education Degree in School Counseling through Singapore's Center for American Education in Singapore beginning June 15.
Two former Enron employees -- 1996 graduates of the University at Buffalo's MBA program -- will discuss lessons learned from the ongoing Enron investigation and its long-term impact on business practices during a panel discussion sponsored by the MBA program in the University at Buffalo School of Management. The panel discussion is only one example of several ways that the UB School of Management and its faculty are bringing lessons from Enron into the classroom.
Paschalis Alexandridis, Ph.D., a faculty member in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who uses molecules and particles as "LEGOs" to develop advanced materials at the nano-scale that end up in products ranging from paints to contact lenses has been chosen to receive the prestigious 2002 Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award.
If policymakers need one more reason to press for a good education for all Americans, here it is: Education is a boon to public health. University at Buffalo researchers have found that as education level goes up, risk of death from stroke and brain hemorrhage goes down. The relationship likely exists for other chronic diseases, as well.
The University at Buffalo is working with the University of Havana on a collaborative effort through which students will be able to obtain from UB an interdisciplinary Master of Arts in humanities degree with a specialty in Caribbean studies.
Former President William J. Clinton will be at the University at Buffalo as a "student choice" speaker at 4 p.m. on April 10 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The speech by the 42nd President of the United States is expected to focus on national and world events; Clinton will take questions from the audience.
David J. Triggle, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and former UB provost, has been named a SUNY University Professor in recognition of his extraordinary achievement as a scientist, administrator and educator.
The nation's first master's degree program in pharmaceutics with a focus in pharmacometrics, a new field that fuses pharmacologic studies with computational and statistical methods of data analysis, has been developed at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
CR: The New Centennial Review, the theoretically inflected interdisciplinary journal of the Americas, has received the Council of Editors of Learned Journals' (CELJ) Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement for 2001.