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  • Using Simulations and Remote Sensing, UB Geologists Create High-Tech Hazard Maps to Mitigate Volcanic Risk
    1/10/02
    University at Buffalo volcanologists, leaders worldwide in using advanced technologies to safeguard populations from dangerous geologic events, are pioneering the automation of the time-consuming and expensive process of developing volcanic hazard maps.
  • UB Historian's Book Named One of Year's Best by Major Publications, American Historical Association
    1/8/02
    An award-winning book by University at Buffalo historian Jorge Canizares-Esguerra examining the emerging identities that shaped the Western hemisphere has been cited as one of the best books of the year by three important international publications and has received two prestigious national awards from the American Historical Association (AHA).
  • 'Network New York' Opens Doors for UB Business Students in Tight Job Market
    1/7/02
    To serve the career needs of its students in a poor national job market, the University at Buffalo School of Management has organized a networking session with more than 30 well-placed UB alumni employed in New York City for 75 of its MBA and business-administration students on Jan. 10.
  • System Will Revolutionize Instruction of Architects When It Comes to Structural Analysis, Building Design
    1/4/02
    An interdisciplinary team of University at Buffalo architects and engineers is working to revolutionize the instruction that architecture students receive when it comes to structural analysis and building technology.
  • UB's Feal Named Executive Director of MLA
    1/4/02
    After a nationwide search, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has appointed Rosemary Feal of Clarence, professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, to succeed Phyllis Franklin as executive director of the association.
  • UB Receives $1 Million from NSF to Fund System to Store Huge Amounts of Computer Data
    12/21/01
    A $1 million National Science Foundation infrastructure award to store, manage and analyze complex scientific data is boosting pioneering research at the University at Buffalo in bioinformatics, geographic information science and other important research areas.
  • UB's 400 Dental Students Are Community Ambassadors Promoting Oral Health, Raising Community's 'Dental IQ'
    12/14/01
    Students in the University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine are educating the community, from special-needs children to underserved urban and rural schoolchildren to senior citizens, about the importance of maintaining good oral health through a slate of year-round, public-service programs, at least one of which is unique in the U.S.
  • Nursing School Addresses "White European" Nursing Culture
    12/14/01
    Look around any hospital, clinic or doctor's office and most of the nurses you see will not be people of color. This situation does not bode well for the future of nursing or for health care, as the general population becomes more diverse and the need for multicultural understanding more crucial. Providing that understanding is the goal of a new curriculum in the master's-degree program for family nurse practitioners in the University at Buffalo.
  • Competency-Building Course Based in Spy-Training Programs Focuses on Skills Recruiters Desire in MBA Graduates
    12/11/01
    Rooted in a Cold War spy-training program, an innovative course at the University at Buffalo School of Management is helping MBA students develop intangible skills that are the difference between being a good executive or a great executive.
  • NSF Funds UB to be Nation's First Cross-Disciplinary Training Ground for Biophotonics Scientists
    12/4/01
    The National Science Foundation has awarded $2.7 million to the University at Buffalo to establish the nation's first comprehensive, multidisciplinary training program for biophotonics scientists. The result will be a new breed of 21st-century scientist, one who is well-versed in and able to conduct research in biological, photonic and electronic systems.