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  • UB Student Association Pledges $25,000 to Newly Established "Random Acts of Kindness Fund"
    12/9/02
    The University at Buffalo undergraduate Student Association (SA) has pledged $25,000 over five years to an endowment fund designed to help undergraduate students who are experiencing financial difficulties stay in school.
  • UB Launches New Articulation Web Site
    11/15/02
    The UB Office of Transfer and Articulation Services has launched a new transfer course articulation Web site, called TAURUS, that replicates and enhances the services that were available in ARIES, the university's award-winning articulation Web application.
  • 13th Annual Linda Yalem Run Set for Sept. 29
    9/13/02
    More than 1,600 runners, walkers and joggers are expected to participate in the 13th annual Linda Yalem Memorial Run, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Sept. 29 on the UB North Campus.
  • International Education Expert Calls Presidential Directive Restricting Graduate Student Studies "Ghastly"
    5/3/02
    Stephen Dunnett, vice provost for international education at the University at Buffalo and a national leader in the field of international education, today expressed serious concern over a "hidden" directive from President George Bush that, if implemented, would place stricter controls on student visas and bar "certain international students from pursuing education and training in sensitive areas."
  • Collaborative Effort with M&T Bank Brings 10 Top Students from India to UB's MBA Program
    5/2/02
    Ten information-technology professionals from India, recruited for the University at Buffalo MBA program with the assistance of M&T Bank, are helping the bank implement new IT applications while boosting the academic profile of the UB MBA program.
  • From Bad to Worse: UB Finance Professor Finds Financial Literacy Drops Further Among U.S. 12th Graders
    4/24/02
    Survey results released yesterday by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy and Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics at the University at Buffalo, show that high school seniors know even less about personal finance basics than they did five years ago.
  • Nursing School Addresses "White European" Nursing Culture
    12/14/01
    Look around any hospital, clinic or doctor's office and most of the nurses you see will not be people of color. This situation does not bode well for the future of nursing or for health care, as the general population becomes more diverse and the need for multicultural understanding more crucial. Providing that understanding is the goal of a new curriculum in the master's-degree program for family nurse practitioners in the University at Buffalo.
  • A Sign of the Times -- Reference Assistance Now Provided Online by "Instant Librarians"
    11/21/01
    University at Buffalo librarians are offering real-time, online reference assistance to students, some as far away as China, using AOL Instant Messenger software (AIM) in the popular chat room format.
  • Yahoo! Internet Life Ranks UB 10th Among Country's "Most Wired" Colleges, Universities
    9/25/01
    The University at Buffalo is one the nation's top 10 most wired universities, according to Yahoo! Internet Life magazine.
  • UB Students Unearth Parts of Guard Houses, Trinkets During Archaeological Field School at Old Fort Niagara
    8/31/01
    Students in the University at Buffalo's summer archaeological field school at Old Fort Niagara have unearthed parts of the enlisted men's and officers' guard houses built by the British around 1768, as well as sections of the protective palisade around the old French "castle."