The UB Learning Experience

Linguistics Professor Receives Research Award

Matthew S. Dryer, a professor in the Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which each year honors renowned scientists and scholars from abroad. The award will permit Dryer to continue his work with Martin Haspelmath and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig on a worldwide database of language structures. Read more.

Posted January 28, 2009 in Uncategorized

UB Teaching Pharmacists How to Vaccinate

Sixty New York State pharmacists will be eligible for certification to administer flu and pneumonia shots after completing a training session at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Certification will allow pharmacists to start providing, for the first time, this valuable service later this flu season. Read more.

Posted January 23, 2009 in Uncategorized

UB Professor Wins Presidential Award as Top Up-and-Coming Researcher

University at Buffalo researcher Gregory A. Fabiano has been chosen by the White House to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation’s highest honor for professionals at the early stages of their independent scientific research careers.

Fabiano, a faculty member in UB’s Graduate School of Education and an investigator with UB’s Center for Children and Families, is among 67 scientists recognized as the most promising American researchers in their fields. He specializes in research with children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Learn more.

Posted January 5, 2009 in Uncategorized