Health and Medicine

The Department of Mathematics in the UB College of Arts and Sciences has teamed up with UB Science and Engineering Node Services staff to develop "Operation Mother Hen," a unique Web-based review tool that has virtually banished the old survival-of-the-fittest mentality for "Introduction to Calculus" at UB. In its place is a system that acts like a nurturing "mother hen," rescuing and supporting students who are struggling with the material.

The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has begun the Student Excellence Initiatives, a unique program that aims to make freshman year for engineering students easier to manage academically and less emotionally agonizing.

The assessment of DWI offenders needs to be modified to focus on identifying characteristics of those most likely to be repeat offenders and whether treatment addressing their alcohol and drug use is necessary, a University at Buffalo researcher recommended at the "Lifesavers 2000 National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities" held in Atlanta on March 12-14.

Armed with small chemical sensors, knowledge of analytical chemistry techniques and serious dedication, undergraduate students in chemistry Professor Joseph A. Gardella's class at the University at Buffalo are on a mission: They are using science and communication skills to help bridge the gap between government and residents of a Buffalo subdivision that is a contaminated former brownfield.

Drawing upon an accumulated wealth of "guanxi," 17 Executive MBA (EMBA) students from the University at Buffalo School of Management are embarking on a study tour of China, gaining access to the highest levels of business in that country.

Mary Flanagan, assistant professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, has been selected by the William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to participate in the Fulbright-Hays Scholarship Program.

Everyone knows that clogged arteries increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke. Unfortunately, most people don't know they have clogged arteries until they actually have a heart attack or some other serious cardiovascular event. By that time, the damage may already be done. Evidence is mounting, however, that information gleaned from a routine dental X-ray may serve as an accurate early-warning system of risk of dying from heart attack or stroke.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo’s Center for Pain Management are finding new ways to treat chronic pain, a condition thought to affect as many as one in four Americans at an annual cost in disability compensation and lost productivity estimated to be as high as $100 billion.

April is National Poetry Month and what better place to behold a gallery of daring new work than the University at Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), the Web-based definitive world-wide resource for digital poetry and an example of ways in which information technology assists the exploration of the humanities.

Isabel Marcus has been championing the rights of women since the mid-1950s. And while time would seem to be on the side of progress, the director of the Women's Studies Program at the University at Buffalo says women still are striving to claim their own voice in the 21st century.