Anna Heintzman plans her life on her iPhone. She stands at the calendar at Dash's Market and triple checks her work schedule to make sure she is not double booked. After she is done with that, she checks her email for the assistant schedule at her promotions job. Then she checks her schedule for the Student Association.
For two years, Sara Festberg battled depression and anxiety. She enrolled at Penn State University for her freshman year at college. After a few months, Festberg realized her state was disabling her from receiving the education she needed.
Seven and a Half White Men struggled to march out of the knee-deep mud pit. Their faces were barely visible through the layers of caked-on mud from seven hours of grueling and demanding volleyball. For the third year in a row, the eight players were victorious. The 29th-annual Oozefest tournament took place on Saturday in the mud pit behind the South Lake Apartment Complex.
Collin Anderson got to be the president of Cyprus for a weekend, attending European Union (EU) meetings and playing an important role in passing policies within the government. Anderson, along with eight other members of UB's Model EU Club, attended the 2013 SUNY Model EU held at the SUNY Global Center in New York City from April 11-13.
In about a month's time, Buffalo's annual marathon will take place. Thomas Scott, a senior political science major, said it's scary to think what happened during the Boston Marathon could happen anywhere. On Patriots' Day this year, two bombs exploded during the annual Boston Marathon near the finish line.
UB is the first university to use GPS tracking technology for students to come together as a biking community. BikeShare at UB offers students, faculty and staff the option of renting bicycles instead of bringing their own to campus.
In 1966, Neil Schmitz arrived to UB as it was occupied by the Buffalo Police Department. Armed officers were dispersed throughout campus and public demonstrations protesting the Vietnam War were frequent and chaotic.
Christine Burrill, a first-year graduate student in geology, heard a story about people living in the crater of a volcano in the Canary Island in class that opened her eyes to the world of geology.
Emily Bradley (Change) After graduation, Emily Bradley will be going into ESL education and working to pay off her student loans.
From May 9-12, thousands of students will close a chapter of their lives by ending their educational career at UB and receiving their degrees.
R. Lorraine Collins is known as a compassionate, groundbreaking psychologist, and recently, her accolades have surrounded two things: marijuana and research. Collins, associate dean for research in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, focuses on alcohol and marijuana use among 18- to 25-year-olds in her projects.
Pamela Rose, the Web Services and Library Promotions coordinator of the Health Sciences Library, has worked at UB for 47 years.
Maria Pascucci grew up being "the smart kid." Her role was "the smart one" and she began to base her identity around it.
Every two minutes, someone in America is sexually assaulted, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Nigel Michki, a freshman computational physics major, and three other freshmen hope to change the face of bilingualism through primers - short guides or overviews to a subject or field - written as part of their self-started Primer Project.
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.
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