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(07/01/13 4:00am)
If students remember nothing else from their study abroad in Singapore, they leave with "Lah." This syllable is used at the end of a sentence to express a spectrum of emotions. It's basic Singlish - an English-based creole of Chinese, Malay and Tamil.
(07/01/13 4:00am)
Last fall was the first time I didn't wear a uniform to school. Instead, I wore a rumpled T-shirt and jeans as I headed to class, passing by countless students who were all dressed differently. The lack of uniformity was unfamiliar. I watched silently as the large crowd moved with me through the narrow hallway, and I felt the lingering graze of swishing skirts and palpable anticipation for a new semester.
(04/21/13 4:00am)
Sabrina Casucci's mother had two elderly relatives staying in hospitals at opposite ends of town. She had to split her time traveling to take care of both of them.
(04/16/13 4:00am)
When Margaret Murray first came to UB, she saw the University Heights as a neighborhood from which to stay away. It was merely a place one goes "on the weekends" - a convenient hangout for partygoers.
(04/04/13 4:00am)
A team of UB engineering students is shooting for the stars.
(03/26/13 4:00am)
It's a nerve-wracking countdown to the most important day of many women's life: her wedding day. She chews her fingers and fidgets anxiously as butterflies flutter in her stomach. Everyone in the room is sent into frenzy. She is adamant her bridesmaids' dresses are a fairytale Tiffany blue. Yet, nobody has managed to find that exact shade.
(03/21/13 4:00am)
The bus is packed. Students are crammed next to one another in the tight, container-like space. Some are fortunate and able to rest in the coveted seats while others have to stand for the next three minutes. Still, everyone is uncomfortably close to each other.
(03/05/13 5:00am)
The only learning obstacle Lavone Rodolph encountered in high school was trying to combine what he learned in the classroom with real life, he said. Then, education was sometimes intangible beyond earning a grade.
(03/03/13 5:00am)
The only learning obstacle Lavone Rodolph encountered in high school was trying to combine what he learned in the classroom with real life, he said. Then, education was sometimes intangible beyond earning a grade.
(02/24/13 5:00am)
A short, shrill beep pierced through the silent room. The audience watched with bated breaths as the next test ? meant to simulate the 2011 Christchurch earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 ? began.
(02/17/13 5:00am)
Two schools sit on opposite sides of the American-Canadian border, but their distance doesn't keep them from working together. Instead, the unique proximity is allowing UB and Brock University to establish a joint degree.
(02/10/13 5:00am)
After 18 years at the helm of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SoPPS), Dean Wayne Anderson is stepping down. A national search committee is finding his replacement.
(02/03/13 5:00am)
Teresa Miller has been taking students to prisons for more than a decade. She isn't a police officer putting them away into cells - she is a SUNY Buffalo Law School professor.
(01/29/13 5:00am)
I cannot live without Ramen.
(01/29/13 5:00am)
I cannot live without Ramen.
(01/24/13 5:00am)
Tracy Nowak is a 38-year-old Buffalo native. Soo Yeon Kwon is a 22-year-old student who hails from South Korea.