Education

Targeted to busy entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs worldwide, an Online Micro-MBA in Entrepreneurial Studies -- believed to be the first of its kind -- is being offered jointly by the University at Buffalo School of Management and The Institute for Entrepreneurship, based in Albany.

The University at Buffalo rolled out a giant "welcome map" today to help members of this year's incoming freshman class and transfer students solve the puzzle of how to get around UB’s 1,192-acre North Campus, where classroom buildings, residence halls and parking lots are interspersed with meadows, lakes, and woodlands.

The University at Buffalo broke ground this week for Gateway Village, the fourth residential project for university students to be built in recent years as part of a long-term plan to provide housing for students and improve their quality of life. Gateway Village will be located on both sides of Flint Road at Augspurger Road near the old UB stadium on the North (Amherst) Campus. It will house a mix of 540 undergraduate, graduate and professional students in one-, two- and four-bedroom units. Being built at an estimated cost of $22 million, it is scheduled to open in August 2001.

The University at Buffalo is launching a major, online, environmental-education project with the Jane Goodall Institute and its founder, primatologist Jane Goodall. The project, "Taking Gombe to the World Through Technology," was developed in connection with the 40th anniversary of Goodall's internationally regarded primate research project in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park.

The University at Buffalo has received approval to offer a doctor of audiology degree (Au.D.), one of less than 10 in the United States, beginning in the Fall 2000 semester.

After years of limited access on the part of students, higher education in the Caribbean received a major boost this summer when the University at Buffalo put the region's first distance-learning WebBoard online at the University of the West Indies (UWI).

The tragic aspects of Love Canal are always at the forefront of our memory of that disaster, but a newly-opened collection of archival materials provides conclusive evidence that what happened in that community should be a source of enormous pride for the Western New York region.

Judy Scales-Trent, professor of law at the University at Buffalo, has received a Fulbright award to conduct research and teach in Senegal during the 2000-2001 academic year.

Deborah K. W. Walters, Ph.D., and Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been awarded a $150,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to develop a community-linked interdisciplinary research (CLIR) program for undergraduate students at UB.

An advanced-certificate program in computational science designed to train science-and-engineering graduate students at the University at Buffalo in scientific computing has been approved by the New York State Education Department and the Chancellor of the State University of New York.