A new standard of living is coming fall 2008. Villas at Chestnut Ridge features lavish three story town home villas, resort style facilities, and pleasing top end customer service. Villas at Chestnut Ridge is owned and professionally managed by American Campus Communities. [read more]

   Coming off a loss that eliminated their team from bowl contention, some teams would fold and look forward to the off-season. This was not the case for the Buffalo Bulls football team, who went to Dix Stadium in Kent, OH focused and proceeded to complete their most successful season in their young Division I history with a victory. [read more]

   Over break, the Bulls' men's basketball team were stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey in contests versus the Niagara Purple Eagles, as well as the 17th-ranked Pittsburgh Panthers. In both cases, the Bulls were outplayed in nearly every way possible. [read more]

   While UB students headed home for Thanksgiving, the Bulls wrestling team traveled to Lock Haven, PA to participate in the Mat Town Tournament. The Bulls had several athletes take top honors, including two individual titles, in various weight classes. [read more]

   Students who return home at the end of each semester know all too well the potential stress in traveling back home, no matter how near or far. Carpooling is now being turned to as a viable source of transportation, using the major social networking tool Facebook as means of establishing rides back home while promoting environmental sustainability. [read more]

   When the pedestals and urns created by internationally known artist Brian Tolle were installed in Founders Plaza this past October, it marked the beginning of an initiative to bring more public art to UB campuses. [read more]

   On October 27, 2005, The New York Times published an article quoting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who declared that the state of Israel must be "wiped off the map." Later, Ahmadinejad made his message even clearer when he shouted, "Death to Israel!" in a speech during a rally in Iran (Iranian News Channel, Aug. 2, 2006). But this is nothing new. Rafsanjani, who served as President of Iran from 1989 to 1997 and is currently Chairman of Assembly of Experts and of the Expediency Council of Iran, suggested that a nuclear attack be launched on Israel that would "annihilate Israel" (Iran Press Service, Dec. 14, 2001). All of this leaves little room for doubt regarding Iran's intentions against Israel. [read more]

   In the first half of the women's basketball game on Saturday against Canisius, it seemed as if the Bulls were suffering from one of the most common Thanksgiving side effects: tryptophan-induced sleep. [read more]

   For Drew Piatek and Gordon Tashjian, it's not the what, but the why. The "what" is the more frequently occurring school shooting, while the "why" remains an unanswered question. [read more]

   Before the college football season even began, I conducted a very quick, super-unscientific survey of the UB student body. Basically, I went out into the Student Union and asked like six or seven people what they thought of the school's football team. The general consensus? That the team would be better, but not good enough to get too worked up about. [read more]

   The barren landscape of Texas is the perfect backdrop for the web of violence, murder and existential crisis that is found in No Country for Old Men. This is a film that treks deep into the human conscience and soul, not afraid to dirty its hands with the lesser aspects of human nature. [read more]

   Less then one week after leading the Buffalo Bulls football team to a victory over Kent State and a share of the Mid-American Conference East Division title, head coach Turner Gill may be on to his next job: head coach at Nebraska. [read more]

   The debate between the morality and the necessity surrounding stem cells may soon be over. Japanese scientists discovered that human skin cells can generate stem cells. These cells from skin would replace stem cells from human embryos and make stem cell research more widespread, according to BBC News. [read more]

   Academic revival of history classes is what Andreas Daum, Ph.D., is best known for. Daum's dedication to the importance of academics has earned him an appointment as associate dean for undergraduate education. [read more]

Thursday

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One in four women, in the course of their college career, and one in six men, in their lifetime, will be victims of sexual assault. [read more]

Gill named MAC Coach of the Year [read more]

   The days of sleeping through lectures and having teachers not know that you skipped their 300-student classes are long gone. Interactive clickers are the wave of the future and are increasingly being used in large lecture halls since their debut at UB in 2003. [read more]

   One night and never again. This is the story of two boys and their journey through heartbreak and defeat, only to arrive at the sweetest victory they would have never imagined. [read more]

   It seems like a lot of people in Buffalo could use a miracle these days, or something. Something to save the kitten in the tree, or the inebriated freshman female on Winspear, or the Buffalo Bills. [read more]

   A UB research scientist has received a $1.8 million grant to conduct a study that will develop a treatment plan to help pregnant women quit smoking. [read more]