GREAT LAKES HUSTLE. Students from the Park School of Buffalo perform a special song-and-dance routine as part of the fifth Great Lakes Student Summit, held on May 23 at UB. More than 150 middle school students from Great Lakes states and provinces in the U.S. and Canada met on the North Campus to share their ideas about protecting the Great Lakes. (Photo: Sue Wuetcher)
Distinguished educator to discuss strategies
Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, director of the U.S. Department of Education's new Institute on Education Sciences, will speak on evidence-based approaches to child and adolescent mental health and education during a lecture tomorrow at UB. » Full Story
PET camera dedicated. The VA and UB on Friday dedicated a new Positron Emission Tomography (PET) camera at the veterans' facility on Bailey Avenue.
June in Buffalo. "Music and Computers" will be the theme of this year's edition of June in Buffalo, to be held June 1-6 at sites on the UB North Campus and beyond.
New machine assists in research. UB biomedical engineers have acquired a rapid-prototyping machine to aid their groundbreaking efforts to manufacture living tissues and organs, and fabricate customized implants and prostheses, among other projects.
Black "toasts" resurrected. A book on a popular form of African-American literature and folk poetry known as "toasts," collected and compiled by UB faculty member Bruce Jackson, is back for a second go 'round.