Despite decreasing availability of resources from the university's main benefactor, the National Institute of Health (NIH), research funding has increased 11.5 percent during the fiscal year of 2006.
According to a study from the UB Regional Institute, violent crime is high in Buffalo, and police officer levels are low.The recent policy brief, "Violent Crime in the City of Good Neighbors," described the Institute's finding - that Buffalo is one of the only cities found to have both a higher violent crime rate and fewer police officers than the group average.
There is one spot for a student representative on the UB Council, and the two candidates competing for the position this year have until April 4 to round up last-minute support.Student elections for the high-profile advisory board to UB President John B.
Due to popular demand, former Vice President Al Gore will address UB students and a select public audience twice when he comes to speak in late April.In conjunction with the Distinguished Speaker Series, Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States and renowned author of the best-selling book "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit" will discuss current global warming trends in two separate lectures.
The Humanities Institute's fellowship lecture and seminar called "Trauma, Time, and Writing: How Historical Narrative Radicalized Huguenot Resistance Theory," presented assistant professor Amy Graves' theory linking methods used to record early-modern history to modern-day propaganda in journalism in the Center for the Arts screening room this past Monday.The talk featured Graves, a member of the department of romance languages and literatures, and her recent research on the subject."My project seeks to capture the spirit of a history that sticks close to public tastes and circles of politico-religious activism during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). To support their cause, Calvinists published collections of documents that they called m?
All students who had previously been living at nearby hotels for the fall semester have been reassigned to traditional dorms.
Any student passing through the Student Union had a chance to get a lei placed around his or her neck while learning about the important Student Services organizations this past Monday in the Student Union.
While some have emotionally coped with the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, others continue to struggle with it.
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