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  • UB Staff Member Celebrates Black History Month with Exhibit of African-American Memorabilia, Autographs
    2/15/01
    A collection of memorabilia and autographs commemorating African-American history is on display in the University at Buffalo's Lockwood Library in celebration of Black History Month.
  • UB Professor, Former Beijing Fine Arts Editor, Remains Principal Documentarian of New Chinese Art
    1/30/01
    Minglu Gao is an artist, art historian, curator and author who was born and bred in the political and cultural tumult of late 20th-century China. Political circumstances sent him off to spend his teen-aged years herding cattle in Mongolia and later propelled him into the explosive Chinese art movement of the 1980s. Today he is a noted curator and assistant professor of art history at the University at Buffalo.
  • IBM Donation Increases Computing Power, Storage Capacity in UB Supercomputing Center
    1/26/01
    IBM, a partner since day one in the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research (CCR), is positioning UB's outstanding supercomputing facility for even greater growth by donating equipment worth more than $640,000.
  • UB Professor Remembered Through Family Gift for Engineering Scholarships
    1/23/01
    John Zahorjan, a Fisher-Price industrial engineering executive who "retired" to his first love of teaching at the University at Buffalo, has been remembered by his family through a $260,000 pledge to UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
  • Family Gift for Engineering Scholarship Honors UB Alum and Military Helicopter Pilot
    1/16/01
    The family of Yong H. Lee has remembered the 1981 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with an endowed scholarship in memory of the helicopter pilot who died in 1996 in a crash during the initial test flight of a military helicopter bound for the presidential fleet.
  • Computational Physics Degrees Lead to Careers Ranging from Designing Computer Games to Work on Wall Street
    1/12/01
    Two degree programs recently developed by the Department of Physics in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences could lead students into new career paths that a few years ago may have seemed rather unusual for a traditional physicist.
  • Computational Physics Degrees Lead to Careers Ranging from Designing Computer Games to Work on Wall Street
    1/12/01
    Two degree programs recently developed by the Department of Physics in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences could lead students into new career paths that a few years ago may have seemed rather unusual for a traditional physicist.
  • University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research Tests Itanium™ Processor for Biological Applications
    1/12/01
    A new era in supercomputing has arrived at the University at Buffalo, one of just three sites in the world selected by SGI to beta-test Intel's new Itanium™ processor. The other sites are the Ohio Supercomputing Center and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
  • UB’s Master’s Program in Applied Economics Drawing Students from Around the World
    1/11/01
    Now in its third year, the University at Buffalo's master's degree program in applied economics has tripled its enrollment -- drawing, in particular, a large international student contingent -- and by all accounts, seems to be filling a niche both for student and market demand.
  • UB’s First Overseas “Service-Learning” Program Set for Hanoi
    12/22/00
    The University at Buffalo next spring will offer a unique "service-learning"-abroad program, one in which college students and non-students alike will live and work for one month in Hanoi, Vietnam's capital and second-largest city.