• UB Reading Clinic Seeks Children With Reading Problems For Diagnosis And Remediation
    1/9/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Â鶹´«Ã½o Reading Clinic is seeking children who have serious reading and/or learning problems for enrollment in the clinic's diagnostic and remedial program that begins Jan. 29.
  • African-American Servicewomen During World War II Played Role In Changing Segregationist U.S. Military Policy Book By UB Sociologist Documents Historic 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
    1/9/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- African-American women who served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II played a role in bringing about changes in segregationist U.S. military policy, a new book by a Â鶹´«Ã½o sociologist has found.
  • Lake Ontario Model Developed By UB Researchers Affirms State's Decision to Stock Fewer Game Fish
    1/26/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Owners of charter-boat fishing companies on Lake Ontario loudly protested the decision by New York State in 1993 to cut by 50 percent the amount of gamefish stocked in the lake.
  • Development of "Smart" Materials Focus of University At Buffalo Engineering Research
    1/8/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Imagine road surfaces never sullied by potholes or a construction material that could detect internal cracks as soon as they begin to form. Think of a pacemaker battery that could warn its host that it is losing power or a material that could prevent electromagnetic interference in electronic devices.
  • UB Casting Institute to Restore 75-Year-Old Rumsey Friezes
    1/22/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Â鶹´«Ã½o Casting Institute, one of the largest institutional foundries in the United States, has announced plans to conserve and recast three large bas-relief panels produced by the late Buffalo sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey in connection with one of his last commissions.
  • National Ranking Shows UB Medical School Major Contributor to Medical-School Faculties
    1/9/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Â鶹´«Ã½o School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences received high marks from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in its 1995 Institutional Goals Ranking Report, released late in December.
  • Anonymous Donor Gives UB $800,000 to Continue Distinguished Honors Scholars Program Same Donor Launched Program With $1.6 Million Cash Gift A Year Ago
    1/29/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Â鶹´«Ã½o has received a cash gift of $800,000 for its Distinguished Honors Scholars Program from the same anonymous donor who gave a $1.6 million cash gift in January 1995 to establish the program, which covers the recipients' costs of attending UB for four years.
  • UB Names Massing Director of Technology Transfer Services
    1/10/96
    Daniel E. Massing has been named campus director of technology transfer services in the Office of the Vice President for Research at the Â鶹´«Ã½o.
  • Raymond Miller Elected President of UB Dental Alumni
    1/10/96
    Raymond G. Miller, D.D.S., of Buffalo, has been elected president of the 1,300-member Â鶹´«Ã½o Dental Alumni Association for 1997.
  • UB Positions Itself For Groundbreaking Research With Creation of Center For Structural Biology
    1/17/96
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Â鶹´«Ã½o has announced the establishment of the Center for Structural Biology, an interdisciplinary program that will give scientists powerful new tools with which to study the life sciences.