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  • UB To Establish Center For The Americas
    10/27/99
    The University at Buffalo will establish a Center for the Americas as an interdisciplinary teaching and research center in the College of Arts and Sciences to expand the university's curriculum and degree options in the field of American studies.
  • Neurosurgeon Works To Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome
    10/25/99
    As a pediatric neurosurgeon at Kaleida Health's Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Mark Dias treats children who suffer from a host of diseases associated with the brain and spinal cord. But in addition to combating those serious illnesses ever day, he’s taking steps to insure that he doesn’t have to treat infants for something that could have been prevented: shaken baby syndrome.
  • Information Studies School To Develop New Degree Programs
    10/22/99
    New degree programs related to issues and research on the human aspects of information transfer are being developed by the School of Information Studies (SIS) at the University at Buffalo. The school was formed July 1 when the School of Information and Library Studies (SILS) changed its name and merged with the Department of Communication.
  • Grand Opening Of Center For Computational Research Includes Visit By Pataki
    10/22/99
    Gov. George E. Pataki was the guest of honor Oct. 26 at the grand-opening ceremonies of the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research, one of the nation's leading supercomputing centers.
  • Minniefield Works To Increase Awareness Of Organ Donation In Minority Communities
    10/20/99
    William Minniefield's determination to convince the African-American community that organ donation is a good and necessary thing has resulted in a major grant award to the University at Buffalo and the regional transplant agency to accomplish that goal.
  • Bill Moyers To Speak At UB Nov. 3
    10/20/99
    Bill Moyers, well-known television program producer and host, journalist and author, will speak at 8 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Center for the Arts Mainstage theater on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Conference Set On How Shifts In Higher-Education Funding Restrict Access For Low-Income Students
    10/20/99
    The critical worldwide shift of higher-education costs from governments and taxpayers to students and their parents has raised serious concerns among educators here and abroad because it severely restricts access to higher education for millions of low-income students in many nations. To illuminate the problem and resolve the critical policy issues related to this crisis, the University at Buffalo will host a major international meeting of policy experts and researchers in higher-education finance on Nov. 14-16.
  • UB School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences To Honor First Woman Graduate
    10/14/99
    The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is honoring its first woman graduate, Dorothy Price ('49), with its first-ever Vital Partners award for individual achievement.
  • $500,000 Grant To Help In Study Of Kidney Disease
    10/13/99
    Total Renal Care, Inc. (TRC) has donated $500,000 to the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to establish the Nephrology Research Endowment Fund to partner with UB in the battle against kidney disease.
  • UB Law Professor Works To Make Legal Help Available To Prisoners
    10/13/99
    Teresa Miller is well-acquainted with the U.S. prison system, but not because she's spent time behind bars. The associate professor of law at the University at Buffalo has taught a course on international human rights to female inmates in Albion Correctional Facility, worked with prisoners at Attica, and served as a volunteer lawyer with a prison project in Miami.