Mon, Apr 15th 2024 02:35 pm
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced letters will be distributed to high school seniors to provide them with helpful tips and resources to complete their Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Letters will also be sent to high school principals urging them to make sure each senior student has the resources needed to access financial aid. The mailings are a part of Financial Aid Awareness Month, which Hochul launched at the beginning of this month.
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Mon, Apr 15th 2024 12:30 pm
Niagara University's Vincentian tradition will inform the work of a new living-learning community designed to empower students to pursue justice in their personal and professional lives.
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Mon, Apr 15th 2024 11:15 am
GiGi's Playhouse, the only network of Down Syndrome Achievement Centers, has selected Cardinal O'Hara High School in Tonawanda as its latest National #GenerationG Heroes Award recipient. This marks the first time a high school has been recognized with this honor.
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Mon, Apr 15th 2024 08:45 am
The key to growing coffee plants that can better resist climate change in the decades to come may lie in the ancient past.
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Fri, Apr 12th 2024 09:00 am
Join us at Artpark's lower park on from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug, 31, for The third annual Better Off Read Summer Book Festival. The free-to-attend, all-ages event is meant to promote reading, encourage writing, and celebrate storytelling.
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Thu, Apr 11th 2024 02:20 pm
Today, the Buffalo Zoo is proudly announcing its new "Zoo for All" program, a bold initiative offering significantly reduced admission rates for low-income families and individuals amidst upcoming adjustments to its admission prices.
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Thu, Apr 11th 2024 02:00 pm
Niagara University has partnered with M&T Bank to bring a multicultural small business innovation lab to Niagara County.
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Wed, Apr 10th 2024 08:15 pm
Erie County has geared up to celebrate the Week of the Young Child, an annual event sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children ("NAEYC") and dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of early childhood education and the needs of young children and their families.
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Wed, Apr 10th 2024 08:15 pm
Learning to read is the single most important activity in a child's education. Studies show that children who read at home are better prepared to succeed in formal education. For the second consecutive year, Saints Peter & Paul School in Williamsville is hosting a weeklong program to encourage childhood literacy.
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Tue, Apr 9th 2024 10:05 am
The Niagara County Youth Bureau will return as a sponsor for the 2024 Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). This program ensures that children who are economically disadvantaged continue to receive nutritious meals during summer vacation. Meals are comparable to the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch Programs (NSBP and NSLP, respectively) throughout the school year.
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Fri, Apr 5th 2024 03:35 pm
Research on school discipline has focused largely on the effects of exclusionary measures across the life course, but a University at Buffalo sociologist has published a new study that suggests how a fuller range of disciplinary experiences, not just the most severe punishments, has detrimental health and well-being implications for students later in life.
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Fri, Apr 5th 2024 10:05 am
Price Rite Marketplace and the University at Buffalo football program donated 18 sacks of food to the New Beginnings Food Pantry at the Price Rite of Amherst on Thursday. The donation is a result of the organizations' annual "Sack Hunger" campaign, designed to help tackle food insecurity in the Amherst community.
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Thu, Apr 4th 2024 06:20 pm
Dr. John Martin Fischer, distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California Riverside, will present "The 'Forever Wars': Should You Choose to Live Forever?" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, in the Gallagher Center Multi-Purpose Room on the Niagara University campus.
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Wed, Apr 3rd 2024 06:50 pm
Recipients of FeedMore WNY's home-delivered meal program received a timely gift along with their meals this week, thanks to a donation from Buffalo State University and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. The university and health care organization donated 5,000 pairs of glasses to safely view the solar eclipse to FeedMore WNY for distribution to older adults and homebound neighbors who rely on FeedMore WNY's home-delivered meals program.
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Tue, Apr 2nd 2024 11:25 am
As millions gaze up in awe at next week's total solar eclipse, University at Buffalo scientists will be capturing rare images that could help answer longstanding questions about our nearest star.
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Tue, Apr 2nd 2024 11:20 am
Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University is excited to announce the opening of three distinctive exhibitions, each celebrating unique aspects of artistic expression. The museum opens the doors to these inspiring showcases on April 11.
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Mon, Apr 1st 2024 04:35 pm
NASA has chosen SUNY Niagara as a site for a variety of presentations and exhibits related to the April 8 solar eclipse. Presentations from two members of the agency will anchor an impressive slate of events centered around the celestial phenomena.
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Mon, Apr 1st 2024 01:10 pm
Dr. Rolanda Ward, associate professor of social work at Niagara University and endowed faculty director of the university's Rose Bente Lee Ostapenko Center for Race, Equity, and Mission, received the Katie Huntington Champion of Justice Award from the New York state chapter of the National Association of Social Workers at a virtual ceremony on March 28.
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Mon, Apr 1st 2024 07:00 am
Brian Bischoff believes in copper ink.
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Fri, Mar 29th 2024 07:00 am
The New York Power Authority on Wednesday announced the completion of a new water treatment system and heating units at the Tuscarora Nation School. The energy efficiency projects at the school were made possible through an ongoing collaboration between the Tuscarora Nation, the Niagara Wheatfield Central School District and NYPA.
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Fri, Mar 29th 2024 07:00 am
On the Superintendent's Conference Day on March 15, the Niagara Wheatfield Central School District hosted emergency training and active shooter drills at West Street Elementary School and Errick Road Elementary School for staff and school resource officers.
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Thu, Mar 28th 2024 06:30 pm
Shea's Performing Arts Center welcomed students from Mount St. Mary Academy to Shea's Buffalo Theatre on Tuesday. The students participated in a program focused on "The Immigrant and Refugee Experience in Western New York" during a schoolwide "Service & Justice Days" initiative.
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Wed, Mar 27th 2024 04:25 pm
M&T Bank and the Buffalo Bills have launched their annual "M&T Bank Touchdown for Teachers" program, recognizing local educators' outstanding contributions to their students, schools and communities. Nominations can be made online through April 11 at buffalobills.com/teachers.
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Tue, Mar 26th 2024 12:35 pm
A new edition of Emily Dickinson's correspondence, co-edited by a University at Buffalo literary scholar, offers a transformative portrait of the famous American poet that takes readers beyond vague notions of Dickinson's loneliness and isolation to instead reveal an intensely interactive and deeply involved member of a community who was very much engaged with friends, family and the unfolding events of her time.
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Tue, Mar 26th 2024 12:35 pm
The Western New York Scout Council, Boy Scouts of America, will hold its annual Distinguished Citizen Award event on Wednesday, June 12, to recognize Eugene P. Vukelic, the chairman of Try-It Distributing Co. Inc.
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Mon, Mar 25th 2024 01:10 pm
Get ready, WNY! Something extraordinary happened over the weekend - and it involves Girl Scout cookies - lots of them. Over a million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies have arrived, just in time for their cookie season and booth sales.
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Sat, Mar 23rd 2024 06:55 am
The academic top 10 of the Grand Island Central School District's graduating Class of 2026 was honored at the March 11 meeting of the Board of Education. Seven of the 10 students were at the meeting.
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Fri, Mar 22nd 2024 03:40 pm
Western New York elected officials joined University at Buffalo Provost A. Scott Weber, UB Vice President for Research and Economic Development Venu Govindaraju and members of the Empire AI consortium today in support of Empire AI, a bold and first-in-the-nation initiative that will position New York as the national frontrunner in responsible artificial intelligence innovation.
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Fri, Mar 22nd 2024 12:20 pm
The SUNY Niagara board of trustees will hold a special meeting tonight at 8:30 p.m. to discuss and review the final presidential candidates for the college.
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Fri, Mar 22nd 2024 11:55 am
Traditional medical missions often involve medical professionals from well-resourced, high-income countries traveling to under-resourced, low-income countries to provide health care to a local population for a limited period of time.
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Fri, Mar 22nd 2024 11:55 am
Assemblyman Mike Norris is encouraging high school students to participate in his annual Memorial Day poster contest to honor the contribution of this nation's military and veterans.
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Fri, Mar 22nd 2024 11:00 am
The 16th annual Colvin Cleaners "Gowns for Prom" has a new home for high school students to select a free gown during a three-day distribution April 9-11: the Buffalo Convention Center, at 153 Franklin St.
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Thu, Mar 21st 2024 08:20 pm
M&T Bank is bringing its Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab to Niagara County this spring.
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Thu, Mar 21st 2024 08:20 pm
The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Children's Museum has announced eclipse-themed programming ahead of the total solar eclipse.
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Wed, Mar 20th 2024 08:25 pm
Today, the New York State Educational Conference Board and New York State Education Department announced an extraordinary agreement on legislation to rewrite the state's poorly designed teacher evaluation system that was imposed in 2010.
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Wed, Mar 20th 2024 09:50 am
Niagara University's student chapter of the Club Managers Association of America was named Student Chapter of the Year by the association at its 2024 World Conference and Club Business Expo, held March 4-8 in Las Vegas. This is the 13th time in its 15-year history that the NU group has been recognized as the top medium-sized chapter in the country.
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Mon, Mar 18th 2024 10:55 am
Orleans/Niagara BOCES science teacher Seth Muck recently spent time with the culinary arts students at the Niagara Career and Technical Education Center. Much, who is also a dairy farmer, gave a lesson in meat.
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Mon, Mar 18th 2024 10:50 am
Special Olympics New York is honored to once again partner with the Golisano Foundation in expanding Unified Sports access to students in the Western, Genesee and Central regions. This is the second year of a two-year commitment, for a total of $350,000.
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Mon, Mar 18th 2024 10:15 am
In an effort to identify effective food is medicine approaches for incorporating healthy food into health care delivery, the American Heart Association - the world's leading voluntary organization focused on heart and brain health research, now celebrating 100 years of lifesaving work - announced a grant to fund research at the University at Buffalo for its Health Care by Food initiative.
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Sat, Mar 16th 2024 07:00 am
Autumn Spinella and her husband, Joseph, had always wanted to do something special to raise much-needed funds for Charles N. DeGlopper Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9249 and its auxiliary. Their opportunity came last year when they organized an extremely successful Easter egg hunt on the VFW grounds at 2121 Grand Island Blvd.
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