Education

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

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  • UB’s First Overseas “Service-Learning” Program Set for Hanoi
    12/22/00
    The University at Buffalo next spring will offer a unique "service-learning"-abroad program, one in which college students and non-students alike will live and work for one month in Hanoi, Vietnam's capital and second-largest city.
  • Verizon Grant to Help Buffalo School Children Read
    12/20/00
    Reading made easy through technology -- that's the plan behind a $100,000 gift from Verizon to a collaborative literacy project of the Center for Applied Technologies in Education at the University at Buffalo, the Buffalo Public Schools, Computers for Children and EPIC (Every Person Influences Children).
  • To Meet Industry Demand, UB Offers Nation’s First Academic Course in Combinatorial Chemistry
    12/15/00
    A University at Buffalo professor's research has led him to develop and teach the world's first academic course in a new technique called combinatorial chemistry that has taken the pharmaceutical industry by storm.
  • UB Program Links WNY High Schools with Peers in Costa Rica
    12/8/00
    Students in two Buffalo area high schools and one in Costa Rica have shared three classes virtually this semester as the result of a pilot program spearheaded by the Center for Applied Technologies in Education at the University at Buffalo. The program is the first of its kind for UB and Central America, and the only such program currently taking place in the United States.
  • UB to Offer First SUNY Doctorate in Physical Therapy
    12/1/00
    The University at Buffalo in 2001 will join an elite group of universities in the United States that offer a doctorate in physical therapy (DPT). The UB doctoral program will be the first within the State University of New York system.
  • Institute Releases First State of the Region Progress Report
    11/29/00
    The Buffalo-Niagara region has experienced definite, if incremental, progress over the last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth.
  • UB, City of Buffalo Join Upstate Alliance Aiming to Increase Commercialization of New Products
    11/17/00
    The University at Buffalo has joined a new alliance of upstate New York education, industry and government partners that aims to generate economic success in the western part of the state.
  • Project Aiming to Increase Organ, Tissue Donation Focuses on Educating Middle-School, High-School Students
    11/17/00
    Working to educate children to deliver to their families the important messages about organ donation is the focus of a new program, "Talk it Up," being launched by the University at Buffalo and Upstate New York Transplant Services (UNYTS).
  • Bicoastal Classrooms, Virtual Prison Doctors Result of UB Expertise in Internet Videoconferencing
    11/15/00
    In their most harried moments, professors trying to balance the demands of teaching, research and family may feel that the only solution to their overloaded schedules is to be in two places at once. And now -- for better or worse -- they can as the result of advances in high-quality Internet videoconferencing pioneered, in part, by the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Course Teaches MBA Students How to be Entrepreneurs
    11/14/00
    Can a business school really teach a subject as intangible as "how to be an entrepreneur?" University at Buffalo School of Management professor John Hannon thinks so, as do the 31 MBA students enrolled in his new entrepreneurship course, which began this fall.