TRIBUTE TO NIU. Michael Wallace, a student in the Department of Theatre and Dance, sings “Let It Be” to close Monday’s memorial service in the Student Union Theater for the victims of the shootings last week at Northern Illinois University. Wallace is accompanied on the piano by his father, Stephen N. Wallace, coordinator of the UB Office of Veterans Affairs. (Photo: Nancy J. Parisi)
Sexual harassment course is online
A new education program to help members of the UB community recognize and deal with sexual harassment on campus is now available online, thanks to the work of staff members in the university’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Affirmative Action Administration. » Full Story
Should soldiers for hire be honored?
A UB faculty member is delving into the question of whether private military contractors should be embraced as heroes and given the same honors as those who serve in the conventional armed forces. » Full Story
Virtual dissection. V-Frog, the world’s first virtual-reality-based frog-dissection software has been developed by a spin-off of UB’s Virtual Reality Laboratory.
Statins’ impact on heart repair. UB cardiac researchers have received a grant to investigate how a common cholesterol-lowering drug helps to stem the progress of heart failure.
Bridging divide on immigration. Law faculty member Rick Su studies the impact of local regulations on immigration, a topic he says is often ignored in the legal scholarship on the issue.
More Beethoven on tap. Following the successful Beethoven Marathon earlier this month, the Orion String Quartet will present the fourth concert of the Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle.
Internationalizing engineering. A Vietnamese university will begin teaching UB’s undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum to its own students next fall.
New data impacting climate models. A new study by UB scientists documents the dynamics of parts of Greenland’s ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice-sheet models on which projections about sea-level rise and global warming are based.
Hospital cost-cutting A program developed at an Erie hospital in partnership with The Center for Industrial Effectiveness has saved the hospital $500,000 and earned the UB center a national award.
Free GRE hits roadblock. The Faculty Senate Executive Committee learned yesterday that plans to offer free Graduate Records Examinations to a selection of students as part of UB’s general education assessment plan has hit a roadblock due to a lack of financial support from SUNY.