Dr. Bruce Holm, senior associate dean for the school of medicine, will be the first individual to hold a new administrative office, created to keep pace with UB's advances in the high-tech area of biomedical sciences.
In a compelling lecture titled "Purchasing Pleasure: Images of Women in French and American Magazines" in the Center for the Arts Monday evening, French professor Jeanette Ludwig evaluated differences in the portrayal of the feminine experience in magazine advertisements in the United States and abroad.Ludwig, an associate professor in the modern languages and literature department, recalled looking through a magazine with her daughter, Sarah, who was enchanted by an ad featuring a couple dressed in formal wear and engaged in a romantic balcony scene."She turned the page and said, 'I want that, I want to be there,'" said Ludwig.
SUNY students receiving state funds under the Tuition Assistance Program could be forced to wait until graduation for full reimbursement under Gov.
The University at Buffalo's wrestling team entered competition last weekend coming off an impressive outing at the New York State Championships, and was looking to carry that success over into their dual meets.This would not be the case, however, as the Bulls tripped, stumbled and plummeted their way to two-straight losses against top 25 teams Kent State and West Virginia."Kent has been playing spectacular and West Virginia is the 12th-ranked team in the nation," said Bulls Head Coach Jim Beichner.Buffalo dropped to 1-2 in the MAC courtesy of a 28-9 drubbing at Kent State Friday.
"What you do is as important as anything government does."- President George W. Bush"Good evening, America.
The UB men's and women's swim teams both went 1-1 Saturday as they split conference tri-meets with Ball State and Bowling Green in Muncie, Ind.Buffalo's men's swimming team earned their first MAC victory of the season with a 127-109 win over Bowling Green, however losing to the host team, Ball State, by a 183-54 score.
"A Beautiful Mind" is a beautiful movie. Growing up with an older sister who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder and manic depression, I saw echoes of my family's own experience in the onscreen hardships of mathematical genius and schizophrenic John Forbes Nash Jr.
Saturday night I waited in line to use the men's room at Alumni Arena. I waited in traffic after the game for about 10 minutes.
If basketball were a sport that awarded points based on elegance, the women of UB would have had some major problems racking up style points in Saturday night's game against Akron.
The key to Mike Magnuson's Lummox: The Evolution of a Man is its desire to be greater than itself.
When opportunity comes knocking, you'd better be there to answer it. Saturday night, at home against the Big Ten's Northwestern Wildcats, the Bulls held up a "Do Not Disturb" sign every time opportunity approached.In the last 10 minutes of the men's game, the Bulls had 13 chances to either tie or take the lead against the Wildcats.
Here, at the dawn of the 21st century, humanity inarguably stands at the pinnacle of medical achievement thus far.
Veridian, an engineering research corporation, has donated several decades' worth of research materials - including technical reports, books and journals - to UB, as part of the university's $250 million fund-raising campaign."Overall, it's a major addition to the collection," said Nancy Schiller, associate librarian of the Science and Engineering Library, where the materials will be housed.
Top administrators in the UB School of Management have expressed confidence in a member of the SOM dean's advisory council and former Enron senior director of investor relations, Elizabeth N.
Finding a health maintenance organization that meets one's needs should not be left to chance. But in some cases even these needs is not met, nor even mentioned.
Most students probably wouldn't guess that a UB English professor from a small Bavarian town in Germany who holds a doctorate degree from Yale and studies Dante in Italian was once arrested and spent time in the slammer.It was 1971 and college students were protesting against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War."We had cops on campus with tear gas and a K-9 squad, supposedly stopping students from rioting," said professor Max Wickert.
It's embarrassing. When I tell people I know I go to UB, of which fact I am very proud of, they immediately say to me, "Wow, Joe, you must be rich to go to that college where they pay their teachers $8,000 a week for teaching a class!"Then I have to tell them, "Oh, no.
UB's department of computer science and engineering was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to invest in a massive data storage system that will enable pioneering multidisciplinary research in bioinformatics, the use of supercomputers to analyze biological data, and geographical information sciences (GIS), among other research areas.The highly competitive five-year grant provides 25 terabytes - or 25,000 gigabytes - of state-of-the-art computer storage necessary to manage and analyze multidimensional data sets.
For the third time in four years, Kansas-based Morgan Quitno Press has dubbed Amherst, N.Y. the safest city in America.
"A millennium ago, there existed a powerful empire, born from the ideals of liberty, scholarship and a free society, which grew to become one of the most awesome superpowers the world had ever seen."Its culture spread and assimilated others and drastic developments were made in technology, literature, arts and the democratic system.
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