Adel Sadek grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and the pyramids and the ancient Egyptians always fascinated him. This fascination influenced his decision to pursue civil engineering - the field where "you build stuff," he said. In 1993, Sadek emigrated from Egypt to attend the University of Virginia for graduate school.
In a hidden corner of UB North Campus, just beside South Lake Village, is a small building. It isn't a place meant for UB students.
Don't call Douglas Perrelli a modern-day Indiana Jones. As an archaeologist himself, Perrelli sees the fictional character as nothing but a "fake" and a "borderline unethical artifact looter." Perrelli is the director and principal investigator of the Archaeological Survey within the Department of Anthropology at UB.
As attendees slowly piled into Alumni Arena, there was a solemn sense of hope in the air. The crowd remembered those who lost loved ones while honoring those who overcame one of life's hardest battles. Relay For Life had begun. Students, faculty and the UB community came together on Friday for a 24-hour event to raise money for the fight against cancer.
Christine Tjahjadi-Lopez, a junior international trade major, wants to start a for-profit organization dedicated to creating safe housing for victims of human trafficking.
Students lined up to have their bodies painted with brightly colored cornstarch. With bright pink war paint under their eyes and battle lines down their arms, these students are ready to bombard the students walking through the Student Union. These colorful students are passing out flyers advertising for Color Me Rad, the 5K run taking place at Darien Lake Amusement Park on June 22.
On her first night of work, Shelby Herneisey saw one girl make out with another girl. Later that night, she saw the same girl slip in a bathroom covered with puddles of water.
It was a snowy night in January when Vusa Hove first set foot in the United States. Snow is not a common sight in Sub-Saharan Africa. "The first day I arrived was the first time in my life that I'd ever seen snow," Hove said.
Steven Coffed, a sophomore aerospace and mechanical engineering major, has a valedictorian certificate hanging in his bedroom, a mention in a Business First article that named the best scholar athletes in Western New York, a Presidential Scholarship - which is awarded to only 25 of the university's approximately 5,000 incoming freshmen - and multiple other academic honors. One of his most treasured possessions, however, is a Marvin the Martian watch. At first glance, the watch could be seen as a subtle but arrogant reference to his success because of its juxtaposition.
UB students are saving lives. For the eighth consecutive year, students of Karen Swierski's COM 453 Advanced Public Relations class hosted an event in conjunction with Upstate New York Transplant Services (UNYTS) to raise awareness and gain support for organ, eye, tissue and blood donations. Swierski, an adjunct professor in the communication department, wants her students to have the experience of working with a non-profit agency before entering the corporate world.
Sounds of traditional Chinese music echoed throughout the Student Union yesterday to represent happiness and good luck for the New Year. Feb.
@UBCrushes This popular Twitter account enables UB students to anonymously confess their love for other students or professors. After a UB student noticed other schools with "hilarious crush Twitters," this user searched for a UB crush page and after not finding anything, UB Crushes was born.
Many college students get a kick out of partying, drinking and going out. Michael Zhang, a UB alum, along with his fraternity, Lambda Phi Epsilon (LPE), doesn't. Zhang, who is still an active member of his fraternity despite no longer being a student at UB, said his involvement with LPE allows him to enjoy activities besides partying and drinking.
Anna Beard was working at a movie theater in North Carolina when a coworker approached her and offered to give her guitar lessons.
Matthew Faulkner will never remember what happened on March 2, 2009. Though the day's events are not stored in his memory, he has a way to replay them on a screen. After being in a traumatic car accident, Faulkner was left in coma for six weeks.
Najmeh Moradiyan was treated like a celebrity in her hometown upon being accepted to UB. Her acceptance into the university was announced on the local news.
When Daniel DeVoe arrived at UB in the fall of 2011 to attend law school, UB's law school environment had no opportunities for an LGBT student or anyone interested in LGBT law. Instead of wishing he had chosen a school with a thriving LGBT community, DeVoe did something about it.
On Thanksgiving Day 1975, Gabriel Atallah immigrated to the United States with his six brothers and four sisters amidst violence and volatility in Lebanon.
The next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates could be at UB. The SUNY Buffalo chapter of UB ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is one of two computer science and engineering clubs that the university has to offer its undergraduate students.
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