• UB Medical School Gets $600,000 Grant to Fund Efforts to Increase Number of Primary-Care Physicians Initiative One of 14 Funded Nationally By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    6/29/94
    The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the Â鶹´«Ã½o will receive approximately $600,000 over three years from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support the medical school’s efforts to redesign its medical-education curriculum and to increase the number of primary care physicians it graduates.
  • Macgillivray Elected President-Elect of Pediatric Endocrine Society
    6/8/94
    The United States will need 612,000 more nurses by the year 2000, according to some estimates.
  • Macgillivray Elected President-Elect of Pediatric Endocrine Society
    6/16/94
    Margaret H. MacGillivray, M.D., professor and chief of the Division of Endocrinology in the Department of Pediatrics in the Â鶹´«Ã½o School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been elected president-elect for 1994 and president for 1995 of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society.
  • UB's Levy to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
    6/6/94
    Gerhard Levy, Ph.D., distinguished professor of pharmaceutics in the Â鶹´«Ã½o School of Pharmacy, will travel to Lisbon, Portugal, to receive the 1994 International Lifetime Achievement in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Award from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) for Education and Research.
  • Infants As Young As 4 1/2 Months Recognize Their Name, Study Finds
    6/10/94
    Infants as young as 4 1/2 months can recognize their own names, even picking them out from similar-sounding names, Â鶹´«Ã½o psychologists have found.
  • Family With Long-Time UB Ties Gives Gift to Fund Scholarships For Medical Students
    6/17/94
    The Â鶹´«Ã½o School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has received a $508,000 gift from a trust created by Helen Hekimian, whose family has helped UB in many ways since its earliest days.
  • Childhood-Cancer Survivors With No Recurrence After 5 Years Likely Will Have Normal Life Span, Study Shows
    6/15/94
    Childhood-cancer survivors who have no recurrence of cancer in the first five years after diagnosis can expect to live as long as members of the general population, a new study by researchers from the Â鶹´«Ã½o has shown.
  • UB Students Build Geodesic Dome In Williamsville Backyard
    6/15/94
    Â鶹´«Ã½o students have constructed a steel, geodesic dome house in a Williamsville backyard, similar to the ones they developed as a cheap, practical form of housing for residents of poor villages in India.
  • UB Researcher Recommends Widespread Screening For Chlamydia
    6/20/94
    Widespread screening for chlamydia among sexually active, single women under the age of 25 is needed to reduce the incidence of illness associated with untreated chlamydial cervicitis, a Â鶹´«Ã½o medical researcher recommends.
  • UB Faculty, Staff, Librarians Receive Chancellor's Awards
    6/15/94
    Seven Â鶹´«Ã½o faculty members, two librarians and three professional staff members have received 1994 SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence.
  • Calkin Elected Chair of Geological Society Division
    6/6/94
    Parker E. Calkin, Ph.D., professor of geology at the Â鶹´«Ã½o, has been elected 1994 chair of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America (GSA).
  • UB Develops Guidelines For Reporting Bias-Related Incidents
    6/22/94
    In an attempt to encourage students to report bias-related incidents that occur on campus, the Â鶹´«Ã½o has developed specific guidelines for students to consult when reporting such incidents.
  • Media Exaggerate Epidemic of Flesh-Eating Bacteria
    6/14/94
    Media reports of an epidemic of necrotizing fasciitis caused by a flesh-eating bacteria are premature and may be causing unnecessary public angst, according to a nationally recognized expert in infectious diseases who is a professor of medicine and associate professor of microbiology at the Â鶹´«Ã½o.
  • UB Student-Athletes to Get Boost From $1 Million Gift From Retired Food Executive, Former UB Football Player
    6/13/94
    Â鶹´«Ã½o alumnus Arthur W. Woelfle, Jr. is providing generous support for UB student-athletes meeting specific academic standards by giving the university $1 million to create a new scholarship fund that will help them prove themselves in the classroom, as well as on the playing field.
  • Severo is Fellow of Institute of Matehmatical Statistics
    6/21/94
    Norman C. Severo, Ph.D., professor of statistics at the Â鶹´«Ã½o, has been elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.