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Capaldi: No Direct Benefit of Tuition Hike

By ANDREW HYZY | Oct. 31, 2003

While most State University of New York students noticed this year's $950 tuition increase, the first general tuition increase in seven years, the university has yet to see any benefits, according to Provost Elizabeth Capaldi.Capaldi discussed the struggles of breaking even within the confines of a dropping budget at Wednesday's meeting of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee in Capen Hall.

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Celebrating Cultural Diversity at the Latino Bazaar

By ANDREW HYZY | Oct. 24, 2003

The sound of dancing feet and the scents of popcorn, cotton candy and spicy food wafted through the Student Union lobby on Wednesday at the eighth annual Latino Bazaar.The theme of the event changes from year to year and has its origins in students' desire to increase cultural awareness around campus, according to Student Life Coordinator Vicki Sapp.

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New Major Explores the 'Global Phenomenon' of Asia

By ANDREW HYZY | Oct. 17, 2003

The Asian studies program at UB is now offering a major in addition to its minor, in hopes of letting students take a closer look at the distinct intricacies of Asian culture.The Asian studies program was established in 1993, according to director Thomas Burkman, an expert on Japanese history.

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GSA Kicks Off Computer Tutoring Program

By ANDREW HYZY | Oct. 13, 2003

Friday the Graduate Student Association kicked off over a month of free computer training sessions that officials say will help graduate students with their research by providing programming skills.The training sessions cover four different computer programming applications - Matlab, C, C++ and Visual Basic - and take place on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in 139 Hochstetter Hall.

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UB Grad Students Win First Place in National Engineering Contest

By AMY E. FINCH | Nov. 4, 2002

Three graduate students from UB's environmental engineering program won first place in a student design contest sponsored by the Water Environment Federation in Chicago this September.The winning team was made up of Jean Balent, Samuela Franceschini and Howard Kellick, who worked together to consult on contaminants in water for Letchworth State Park in Castile, N.Y.Alan Rabideau, associate professor of civil, structural, and environmental engineering, who served as the project's faculty advisor, said the project was a marriage between classroom and real-world experience."The university was approached by Letchworth with a study required by New York State to determine if the water collected by systems at the park for transportation to reservoirs should be classified as ground water or surface water," said Rabideau.According to Rabideau, this issue arose because despite the fact that water collected at Letchworth is groundwater, which undergoes a natural filtration process, the water is collected in shallow pools susceptible to the same bacteria and other contaminates as surface water.The team made long-term and short-term recommendations to the park, and advised them as to how the park could negotiate with New York State to implement their suggestions, said Rabideau.Letchworth originally wanted the students to check for the presence of contaminates by visiting and examining the water on a frequent basis, which would be very time consuming and labor intensive, according to Rabideau.

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UB Goes 'Clean and Green' With Wind Power

By AMY E. FINCH | Oct. 16, 2002

UB became the first school in the SUNY system to utilize wind-generated power as an alternative to more traditional sources of electricity, when the university purchased power from the Senner Wind Power Facility in Madison County, New York on Oct.

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"High School Texts Offer Limited View, Study Shows"

By AMIL SARFRAZ | Oct. 4, 2002

A recent study by Catherine Cornbleth, professor of learning and instruction in UB's Graduate School of Education, found that high school history textbooks are in need of revision, as high school students are questioning the validity of the history taught to them through the texts.The study, conducted before Sept.

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Up Close and Personal:

By AMIL SARFRAZ | Sep. 30, 2002

Assistant Professor of English David Schmid began his teaching career at UB, when in 1994, both he and his wife obtained positions in the English department.Described as "congenial and kind" by colleagues like Patricia Darstein, a receptionist in the main English office, Schmid said the students are what he loves most about UB.

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Seeking UB Real Men

By AMY E. FINCH | Sep. 30, 2002

UB Real Men, an all-male anti-sexual violence activist group, is looking for men in the UB community to join their organization.Founded in 1996, the UB Real Men was created to give awards to men who are active in the fight against sexual violence.

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Making Science a Co-ed Sport

By AMY E. FINCH | Sep. 27, 2002

The lack of a strong mentoring system, coupled with communication difficulties between men and women, contribute to an inequality between the two genders in professions dealing with mathematics, computing, and science, according to Mary Bisson, professor and chairperson of the department of biological sciences.Bisson, who was the first female chair and tenured professor of her department, addressed the issue of women in sciences during her lecture, "Women and Science: What to Tell the Girls?"Despite the inequalities, women in science, in recent years, have become more visible because women now face fewer barriers than she did when she was in college, she said.

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UB Apartments Rank No. 1 in Survey

By AMY E. FINCH | Sep. 18, 2002

The results of the Student Satisfaction Survey sponsored by the Association of College and University Housing Officers International last fall have been calculated, ranking UB's apartments No.

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E-suds to Render Laundry Day a Pleasure

By AMIL SARFRAZ | Sep. 18, 2002

New technology being introduced to college campuses nationwide could ease the pain of doing laundry in the residence halls.E-suds, a collaboration between International Business Machines and USA Technology, will web-enable washing machines and clothes dryers, allowing students to check machine availability, dispense detergent and fabric softener, and receive notification when their clothes are ready to be picked up.Nine thousand machines are being installed on forty campuses, mainly in the Midwest.

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