K-12 & OUTREACH PROGRAM
The CoE’s K-12 & Outreach Programs seek to spread awareness of science and technology among students of all ages. The program combines tours, demonstrations, hands-on activities, lectures, and contributions from the Life Sciences Education Program and the CoE’s Center for Computational Research. Each program strives to encourage students and participants to get involved in the science, math, medical, and technology-related fields, shaping the future of Buffalo and the world.
Life Sciences Education Program
The Life Sciences Education Program seeks to increase awareness of and involvement in life sciences. More importantly, the CoE looks to establish workforce talent development opportunities through the dissemination of information, materials, and educational experiences to broad audiences ranging from the general public to select adult and student populations. Please visit the Life Sciences Education Program home page for more information.
Center For Computational Research
Education and outreach at the high school level is also thriving through the CoE's Center for Computational Research (CCR), which has hosted workshops in computational science for high school students for several years. Based on the success of these summer workshops and a desire to have a broader impact on science and math education at the high school level in WNY, a pilot program in computational science was launched with 3 local high schools in the Fall of 2003. The high school program is a year-long extracurricular activity. From this humble beginning, CCR has developed a self-guided course in bioinformatics targeted at the high school level, with many useful, self-contained modules that the teacher can incorporate into their curriculum. For more information, click here. This website also includes programming exercises with solutions, PowerPoint presentations on programming, bioinformatics, databases and other topics.
The CoE staff (background) with students and instructors from the University at Buffalo's University Preparatory Program
News
Turning Research Into Practicality is Focus of Roswell Park Workshop
11/4/2009 - BUFFALO, NY -- "The daylong 'translational research workshop' brought academics and industry representatives together to tackle the difficulties and opportunities of commercializing medical research..." [Read On...]
UB Engineering Professor Honored at White House
10/08/2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - "President Obama honored Takeuchi for inventing the battery that powers many of the world's implanted medical devices, but he just as easily could have lauded her as living proof that the American dream still comes true..." [Read On...]
Life Science Careers Touted: UB leads consortium promoting variety of job possibilities in Western New York
10/6/2009 - BUFFALO, NY -- "A program designed to bring careers in the life sciences within reach of more Western New York job-seekers was rolled out Tuesday by a consortium of agencies and businesses led by two branches of the University at Buffalo. The program is called iSciWNY... " [Read On...]
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Events
November 19 - "Vybion: The Successful Morphing of a Contract Research Organization into a Therapeutics Company" featuring Lee Henderson, CEO, Vybion Inc. Click here for more information.
December 10 - "The Passport of a Life Sciences Entrepreneur," featuring Shreefel Mehta, Ph.D., MBA. Click here for more information.
To view the complete list of events and event details, please visit our Events page
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