Downing bottomless drinks at the beach, tanning by the pool and dancing at clubs until 5 a.m. may sound like just another unattainable Spring Break paradise. But for the approximately 12,000 college students who use
It was a cold November night in New York City. At around 11 p.m., then high school student Valentyna Yasinska drove down the city streets in a car filled with 15 brown paper bags holding sandwiches, fruit and drinks. Yasinska, a senior interdisciplinary social science major, was delivering these bags of food to the homeless. "Those people were literally living on the street," Yasinska said.
When Cory Russo, a senior business major, couldn't keep up with the Indian Student Assocation's (ISA's) Bollywood moves during practice, he knew exactly what to do: break out the Cotton-Eyed Joe. On Friday night, the ISA donned brightly colored skirts, veils and vests to share the epic love story of the Taj Mahal through the art of dance.
Her grandfather never stopped fighting, so why should she? Since the moment last year's Relay for Life event concluded on April 12, 2013, Megan Rosen, a senior biological science major, has been planning this year's event.
Alexandra DeFeo, a senior communication major, has a reason to believe in God. Three of her friends were driving down the highway in a yellow Hummer.
When Samantha Considine, a junior exercise science major, broke her foot practicing gymnastics her freshman year at UB, she was forced to choose between giving up her sport and fighting past the injury. For her, the choice was obvious. Injuries are not foreign to members of UB Gymnastics, a Student Association club.
A little girl went "number two" in her pants while waiting for her mother in Wegmans' childcare center.
One. She gripped the bar as tightly as she could and pulled herself upward. Ten. Michaela Rubin's chin raised high above the bar.
Young men in search of brotherhood often set their eyes upon UB's Greek Life. They pledge for a fraternity for a semester and then become brothers. Some students find fraternity elsewhere. Mike McGuire and Matt Wheeler found brotherhood at Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Company.
What do you do with a B.A. in Italian? Scott Sackett found his answer in filmmaking. Although Sackett, a UB alumnus, has made his career in radio and television producing and is currently working on three films, his path in college was neither defined nor typical.
Yevgeniy Jason Shkodnik knew what he wanted. As an 11-year-old at the Gordon Kent's New England Tennis Camp in Connecticut, he fell in love with the sport.
Katherine Rizzone led students through their first experience at an art museum. She held earth science labs outdoors.
Smoothies, robots and snowball fights: Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) relies on these unconventional tools in their work to create a more environmentally friendly atmosphere on campus. ESW is a Student Association project-based club with about 50 active members.
If The Steer and Northside had a baby, its name would be "Molly's Pub." The bar scene on Main Street surrounding UB's South Campus is changing.
Carolyn Miller, a junior sociology major, grew up in Rochester but has always longed to move further from home.
In 17 Norton Hall, Daniel Loebell, a junior Asian studies major with a global gender studies and Chinese minor, stood wearing a red Peking University hoodie, digging deep into his Totoro pencil case.
Sacha Dix, a senior Asian studies major, said she's been "sheltered" ever since she was a kid. Dix has been struggling with her introverted personality for as long as she can remember. She's not alone.
Dr. Steve McCaffery believes biologists and poets don't have to be so different. McCaffery, an English professor and the David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters, is aware that education at UB, and throughout the nation, is becoming increasingly concerned with the STEM fields rather than the liberal arts.
While Spring Break offers students a chance to leave their classes in Buffalo behind, some UB students in the Dominican Republic will be teaching children who are eager enough to scale fences just to reach their classroom. Students in the Honors College Alternative Spring Break program, made up of 21 members, will travel to the Dominican Republic from March 15-22 and teach English to impoverished children. "None of the children that we taught last year were mandated to go to school, so only the children who really wanted to learn showed up to school," said Alexandra Van Hall, a sophomore chemistry major and director of public service for the Honors College.
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