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  • UB Law School Receives No. 1 Ranking
    9/7/10
    The University at Buffalo Law School is No. 1 in Thomson Reuter's "Super Lawyers" ranking of law graduates practicing in Upstate New York, which includes 54 of the 62 counties in New York State. This is in addition to the UB Law School's 2010 national ranking, where it placed 48th out of the 180 law schools in the country that produced Super Lawyers.
  • Post-Katrina Effects on St. Bernard Parish Police Officers to be Studied
    8/30/10
    A University at Buffalo researcher will spend the next two years studying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the long-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on police officers who worked during the disaster.
  • What Have Engineers Learned from Katrina?
    8/26/10
    Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, James N. Jensen, PhD, University at Buffalo professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, says that probably the biggest lesson learned from that disaster was that municipalities and citizens now take orders to evacuate much more seriously. Jensen was one of six UB researchers that visited the Gulf Coast soon after Katrina hit, as part of a National Science Foundation-funded reconnaissance mission organized by UB's Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research.
  • Law School to Cultivate Peaceful and Ethical Lawyers Through 'Mindfulness' Techniques
    8/23/10
    A new University at Buffalo Law School course will use an innovative technique called "mindfulness reflection" to help students cultivate honesty, wisdom and humility, values central to the classical tradition of lawyers who saw themselves as public servants devoted to a public purpose, along with skilled advocacy for their clients.
  • Errol E. Meidinger Appointed Director of Baldy Center
    5/27/10
    Errol E. Meidinger, professor and vice dean for research and faculty development in the University at Buffalo Law School, has been named director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
  • UB Law School's Sullivan Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
    5/19/10
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, associate professor of law at the University at Buffalo Law School, whose research on the intersection of religion and law has earned international recognition, has been named a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, one of the top academic honors available to researchers and academics of all disciplines.
  • Six Legal Stars to Receive UB's Distinguished Alumni Awards
    5/6/10
    The University at Buffalo Law School will honor five accomplished alumni and an Erie County Court judge whose devotion has earned him "honorary alumnus" status at the UB Law Alumni Association's 2010 Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner to be held May 11 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
  • Faculty Experts Can Discuss Arizona Immigration Law, Tea Party and other topics
    5/4/10
    University at Buffalo faculty experts are available to discuss the Arizona immigration law, the rise of the Tea Party and many other news topics.
  • UB Law Students of Color to Honor Alumni and Graduates
    4/14/10
    The University at Buffalo Law School will honor its diversity in this year's Law School Student of Color Dinner April 15 at the Buffalo Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst.
  • UB Law School Students Propose Renewable Energy Solutions for Haiti
    4/13/10
    University at Buffalo Law School students will suggest ways renewable energy resources can reshape Haiti's future in a free, public forum 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 14 at the Cellino and Barnes Conference Center, 509 John Lord O'Brian Hall, on UB's North Campus.