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15 unusual facts about University at Buffalo


Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

(Baird's and Slee's names now grace the two buildings which house the music department at the University at Buffalo, while the university's main administration building is named after Capen.)

A major coup was achieved when the industrious and ever-versatile Cameron Baird (the Chairman of the UB Music Department) received a recommendation from Arturo Toscanini of the NBC Symphony that its Associate Conductor, William Steinberg, would be perfect for the job.

Clark-Lester House

She was the first woman chair of any of the departments at the University at Buffalo.

Claudio Sartori

His daily hard work was interrupted only on occasion of his appointments as visiting professor at the universities of Buffalo in 1965 and Los Angeles in 1969.

Ernesto Morgado

Ernesto M. Morgado has been awarded a Licentiate degree in Mechanical Engineering (1976) from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) and a Master of Science in Computer Science (1981) and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (1986) from State University of New York at Buffalo.

He was Lecturer of Computer Science in Millard Fillmore College (State University of New York at Buffalo) in 1980 and Canisius College (1981–1984).

Glenn Snyder

In 1964, Snyder joined the department of political science at the State University of New York Buffalo, where he taught until 1984.

Nathan P. Morton

Born in Washington, DC, he grew up near Chicago, Illinois and attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, graduating in 1970.

Niccolò Castiglioni

From 1966 to 1970 he taught composition as composer-in-residence at SUNY Buffalo (1966), visiting professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (1967), Regent Lecturer in composition at the University of California at San Diego (1968), and professor of the history of Renaissance music at the University of Washington in Seattle (1969–70).

Nichols School

The Science Scholar program works with SUNY Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute.

The Humanities Scholar program gives seniors the opportunity to conduct humanities research at SUNY Buffalo.

Singapore Institute of Management

SIM is also the only institute offering the degree programmes of the University at Buffalo SUNY, University of Birmingham and the University of Manchester in Asia.

The International Preparatory School

It offers a College Preparatory curriculum and an Architecture & Design academy through University at Buffalo for its high school students.

University at Buffalo Rugby Football Club

The University at Buffalo Rugby Football Club (UBRFC) is run through the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Recreational and Intramural Services.

Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant

She attended Fisk University and is a graduate of SUNY at Buffalo.


Anucha Browne Sanders

She is currently the vice president of women's basketball championships for the NCAA after serving as senior associate athletics director for marketing and senior woman administrator at the University at Buffalo.

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It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo.

Buffalo Bulls baseball

The Buffalo Bulls baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University at Buffalo in Amherst, New York, USA.

Buffalo mayoral election, 2013

The editorial also mentioned the ample airtime on local television the Brown campaign purchased with its massive "fundraising war chest" for its commercial, which prominently featured President Barack Obama's praise of the sitting mayor during a visit to the University at Buffalo on August 22, 2013.

Charles Phelps Norton

Charles Phelps Norton (March 15, 1858–1920) was chancellor of the University at Buffalo from 1909–20; and a founder of the University at Buffalo Law School.

Consortium of College and University Media Centers

The most recent CCUMC conferences were held in Lawrence, Kansas (2008 - University of Kansas), Greensboro, North Carolina (2009 - Elon University), and Buffalo, New York (2010 - University at Buffalo).

Dick Offenhamer

In 1955, Offenhamer was recruited by University of Buffalo (U.B.) President Dr. Clifford C. Furnas to revive the school’s football team.

Dickinson classification

It was developed by George Sherman Dickinson (1886 - 1964), and is used by many music libraries, primarily those at University at Buffalo, Vassar, and Columbia Universities.

Eugenio Donato

Rodolphe Gasché (he currently holds the Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo)

Fran Striker

Born in Buffalo, New York, Striker attended Lafayette High School and the University of Buffalo, where he was a member of the Theta Chi Fraternity.

Gerry Meehan

After completing his undergraduate degree from Canisius College in Buffalo, he graduated from the University at Buffalo School of Law in 1982.

Girish Shambu

Girish Shambu received a B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India and a Ph.D in Management Systems / Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Glynis Sweeny

She later honed her illustrating skills under the direction of the iconic Alan E. Cober at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Henry Archacki

The three largest collections are within the Polish American Museum located in Port Washington, New York, USA at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and also at the University of Minnesota in the Immigration History Research Center.

Hsinchun Chen

He received a B.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, an MBA from SUNY Buffalo and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Information Systems from New York University.

International Directory of Philosophy

The founding editors were Gilbert Varet (Centre de Documentation Philosophique - Université de Besançon), and Paul Kurtz (State University of New York at Buffalo).

Jeanine Corbet

She has been a guest lecturer at several universities including Columbia University, Wesleyan, Earlham, Antioch, and SUNY Buffalo.

Karen Mac Cormack

She holds dual British/Canadian citizenship, and lived for many years in Toronto; more recently, she moved to Buffalo, New York, when her husband, the poet Steve McCaffery, was hired by SUNY-Buffalo for the David Gray Chair.

Mindy Aloff

She was educated at Philadelphia High School for Girls, and graduated from Vassar College, and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York with an M.A.

Murray S. Klamkin

After this Klamkin worked at AVCO, taught at SUNY Buffalo (1962–1964), and worked on the Ford research staff (1965–1976).

Reginald Case

He studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo receiving a Bachelor of Science degree, San Francisco State University and Boston University where he earned the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees.

Reyner Banham

As a professor, Banham taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London in the University of London, the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo, and through the 1980s at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

S. Narasinga Rao

He then moved to McMaster University in Canada where he received a second Master of Science degree in 1969 followed by a PhD in biophysics in 1973 from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, through Center for Crystallographic Research, Roswell Park Memorial Institute.

Saya Woolfalk

She has received a number of prestigious awards including a Fulbright for research in Maranhão, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, an Art Matters Grant and has been an artist-in-residence at the Newark Museum, University at Buffalo, Yaddo, Sculpture Space and Dieu Donne Papermill.

Seth Horan

Key to this goal was building a following on the college circuit, and he made the rounds at numerous New York and Massachusetts, such as the University at Buffalo, Medaille College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Keuka College, and Tufts University.

Siscog

The initial ideas for founding SISCOG started to be discussed in 1982 while João Pavão Martins and Ernesto Morgado were Ph.D. students in artificial intelligence at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Thalmann algorithm

It was developed by Capt. Edward D. Thalmann, M.D., USN, who did research into decompression theory at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Navy Experimental Diving Unit, the State University of New York at Buffalo and Duke University.

The Emily Dickinson Journal

The current editor is Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York).

W. H. Clatworthy

Willard H. Clatworthy,(October 16, 1915 – February 15, 2010) was a professor emeritus from University at Buffalo and a World War II veteran from Williamsville, New York.