I want to thank you for finally publishing Mr. O'Day's letter. After first reading this letter two years ago, I was struck by the sensibility of O'Day's proposal, and hope that this grand idea, through being aired in The Spectrum, will receive acceptance and be acted upon in Ireland, north and south.
David MacGregor, a professor of sociology at King's College in Ontario, Canada, gave a lecture on the United States' dependence on Middle Eastern oil and politics in Iraq on Tuesday."(A U.S.
"How would I characterize my music? I don't know." So said Pierre Bensusan, French-Algerian born acoustic guitarist, in an interview after his performance last Friday in a packed room in Harriman Hall.
After being here for nearly a semester, everything on campus is starting to become familiar - cave-like brick buildings, $3 sandwiches, the cameras that make me avoid the Student Union, and the general reluctance of students to be opinionated.
Three graduate students from UB's environmental engineering program won first place in a student design contest sponsored by the Water Environment Federation in Chicago this September.The winning team was made up of Jean Balent, Samuela Franceschini and Howard Kellick, who worked together to consult on contaminants in water for Letchworth State Park in Castile, N.Y.Alan Rabideau, associate professor of civil, structural, and environmental engineering, who served as the project's faculty advisor, said the project was a marriage between classroom and real-world experience."The university was approached by Letchworth with a study required by New York State to determine if the water collected by systems at the park for transportation to reservoirs should be classified as ground water or surface water," said Rabideau.According to Rabideau, this issue arose because despite the fact that water collected at Letchworth is groundwater, which undergoes a natural filtration process, the water is collected in shallow pools susceptible to the same bacteria and other contaminates as surface water.The team made long-term and short-term recommendations to the park, and advised them as to how the park could negotiate with New York State to implement their suggestions, said Rabideau.Letchworth originally wanted the students to check for the presence of contaminates by visiting and examining the water on a frequent basis, which would be very time consuming and labor intensive, according to Rabideau.
UB became the first school in the SUNY system to utilize wind-generated power as an alternative to more traditional sources of electricity, when the university purchased power from the Senner Wind Power Facility in Madison County, New York on Oct.
Four UB professors were named Distinguished Professors, the highest level a professor can attain within the SUNY system, by the SUNY Board of Trustees.
UB Real Men, an all-male anti-sexual violence activist group, is looking for men in the UB community to join their organization.Founded in 1996, the UB Real Men was created to give awards to men who are active in the fight against sexual violence.
The lack of a strong mentoring system, coupled with communication difficulties between men and women, contribute to an inequality between the two genders in professions dealing with mathematics, computing, and science, according to Mary Bisson, professor and chairperson of the department of biological sciences.Bisson, who was the first female chair and tenured professor of her department, addressed the issue of women in sciences during her lecture, "Women and Science: What to Tell the Girls?"Despite the inequalities, women in science, in recent years, have become more visible because women now face fewer barriers than she did when she was in college, she said.
Education reform was the major campaign issue that Stanley Aronowitz, the Green Party candidate for governor of New York State, spoke about to an audience of future educators at UB on Tuesday.According to David Vater, Jr., vice president of the Educational Leadership and Policy Graduate Student Association, the event was arranged in less than a week and attracted 19 graduate students in education programs.One of the goals of Aronowitz's campaign, and of the Green Party agenda, is to change the state of modern education by eliminating standardized testing for grade school students and increasing funding for public education by restructuring the tax system to prevent tax cuts for the rich.Aronowitz also spoke of assumptions made by people involved in the public education system that no longer have relevance, but still exist.
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