Summer vacation may be officially over as syllabus week kicks off, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to bundle up and brace for winter yet. Outside of UB lies the City of Buffalo, a bustling place filled with outdoor events like Canalside concerts and kayak tours.
HerCampus acts as both a magazine and a forum in which bloggers can submit pieces and become part of a network of female student-journalists.
Two percent of men and two percent of women join Greek life at UB, according to College Board. These organizations participate in philanthropy events, nightlife and provide students with support throughout your college experience.
Buffalo is known for having some pretty great food. In February, National Geographic named Buffalo as the third-best food city in the world, largely because of its world-renowned chicken wings. Between downtown Buffalo, Amherst and the South Campus area, Buffalo has a variety of places to go to if you want to go out to eat.
But for those of you just getting to UB, or returning for another year, getting to know Buffalo’s major cultural staples will make your time at UB less stressful, more engaging, and a hell of a lot more fun.
Every academic year, outstanding seniors in the University at Buffalo’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) are recognized for their service to the university and their high GPAs.
UB Career Services provides tips for students on how to build a résumé, how to do well in a job interview and start a career. Jenna Smith, coordinator of assessment and marketing for Career Services, takes a positive approach in educating students in ways to get a job.
Lex, a junior English major, is one of the many teens struggling with an alcohol addiction.
Kehl and Vitello are senior chemical engineering majors and winners of the Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) Academic Excellence Award. The two have managed to prove their candidacy by excelling in the chemical engineering department and landing jobs in the field fresh out of college.
Love Your Melon is a non-profit organization started by students in an entrepreneurial class at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. For each Love Your Melon beanie someone buys, the foundation gives one to a child battling cancer. UB student Kim Charleson knew right away she wanted to become an ambassador when she saw UB was not on the list of colleges joining the foundation, so she started a chapter at UB.
Since Buffalo isn’t known for its beaches, there are a bunch of other ways to spend your 80-degree days. Here is a list of some of the most popular Buffalo summer events that’ll have your calendar packed until schools starts back up in the fall.
Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Kappa Psi and Pi Sigma Epsilon put on a poetry SLAM on March 13 to raise money for a yearly career exploration program at Buffalo Public School PS 45: “College and Career: It is not just a dream. It’s a plan!”
On Monday Professor Toni Pressley-Sanon’s African American studies 425 class: “Liberation Struggles”held an art showcase entitled: “Art for Justice.”
Ivana Bosek, a 22-year-old senior contemporary marketing major from Rochester, New York, is still fighting Crohn’s, but now with a camera crew and a new vision. She plans to travel across the country while producing a documentary called TheCrohn’s Moans after graduation.
When Aaron Maracle participated in the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraising event for the first time nine years ago, it took place on campus and only covered about half a mile. It started in the Flag room in the Student Union, moved toward Capen, around the promenade and back the same way.
The award-winning play The Vagina Monologues came to UB this weekend in the Student Union Theater, presented by V-Day at UB 2015, with proceeds benefitting the national V-Day campaign that aims to end violence against women.
UB Relay For Life celebrated its 10th year at its 12-hour event on Friday. The event, created by the American Cancer Society, raises money to fight cancer and aims to increase cancer awareness and celebrate cancer survivors. It is an overnight fundraising walk as teams “camp out” overnight and members walk around the track.
Abby LaPlaca, a senior Spanish major, has a passion for improving education across all cultures and languages – she calls it her “purpose in life.”
It’s the coming of age for college students – you’re still a high school student until you do it. You just can’t quite say that you’re “so college” until you ride the “drunk bus” and party on South Campus.
Sex education is taught with mixed methods, goals and outcomes throughout the country and the world. UB students from around the United States and the globe discuss the sexual education they received and what could be improved.
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