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Major Grant Will Fund Study to Improve Lives of Kids in Foster Care

-- — Making tax dollars devoted to child welfare work most effectively for children is the focus of a promising two-year study led by a University at Buffalo Law School professor. More...

UB Outlines Role in Plans for a Complete Overhaul of Perry Choice Community

-- — The Center for Urban Studies, a research and community development unit in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has joined itself to a massive effort: a proposal by the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority to restructure, redevelop and rehabilitate downtown Buffalo's seriously declining Commodore Perry neighborhood and turn it into the vibrant, sustainable community it once was. More...

New Bioanalytical Instrumentation Updates International Pharmacology Training Lab

-- — Chiedza Maponga '88, director of the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) pharmacy program, knows that he alone can't treat the hundreds of thousands of patients with HIV in his native country. But he believes he can do it with help. This year, help arrived in the form of four graduate students who traveled with Maponga from Zimbabwe to the University at Buffalo to train in a collaborative program that prepares them to treat HIV/AIDS patients. More...

University of Oregon's Hubbard Selected to Join UB as Vice President for Finance and Administration

-- — Laura E. Hubbard, associate vice president for budget and finance at the University of Oregon, has been named vice president for finance and administration at the University at Buffalo. More...

Wells to Bring Extensive Experience as UB's New Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations

-- — Nancy L. Wells has been named vice president for development and alumni relations at the University at Buffalo. She will lead the university's fundraising efforts and its engagement with the more than 218,000 alumni worldwide. More...

Business First reports on Waters Corporation's gift to UB Pharmacy School

-- — Business First reported that the Waters Corporation has donated the Acquity TQD System to the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences to help train graduate students, post-doctoral and clinical fellows in the UB/University of Zimbabwe AIDS International Training and Research Program. More...

Murphy Named Director of UB's New Clinical and Translational Research Center

-- — The University at Buffalo has named Timothy F. Murphy, MD, director of UB's Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC), which will be located in the new $291 million joint UB-Kaleida Health building under construction at Goodrich and Ellicott streets on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. More...

Sixth UB scholarships gala raises $157,000

-- — The 2011 Scholarship Gala raised $157,000 for University at Buffalo student scholarships, thanks to the more than 360 UB alumni, faculty, staff, friends, and business and community leaders who attended the November event. More...

Making Science Exciting: $9.8 Million Program Aims to Change How Science is Taught in Buffalo Schools

-- — A coalition of regional partners has received $9.8 million from the National Science Foundation to expand a promising, teacher-focused initiative that aims to change how science is taught in Buffalo Public Schools. The five-year program, led by the University at Buffalo, Buffalo Public Schools, Buffalo State College and the Buffalo Museum of Science, is called the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership (ISEP). More...

Alumni to Co-chair 2011 UB Scholarship Gala, Set for Nov. 4

-- — Four University at Buffalo alumni will serve as co-chairs for the sixth annual UB Scholarship Gala, which will take place from 6-11 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, in the Edward Wright Practice Facility on the UB North Campus. More...