Campus UB recruits Business leaders and scientists to spearhead global initiatives in research and health. The UB Center of Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences has now created the Sustainable Development Leadership Committee, according to UB News.
New York State is closer than ever to legalizing recreational marijuana, but that doesn’t mean UB students would be able to spark a joint on campus any time soon.
2/04 12:33 a.m. A student reported her roommate was stealing her food in Goodyear Hall. UPD filed a report.
Department representatives presented data on UB’s mandatory fees at a student consultation town hall Wednesday. Five students attended.
Peter Elkin, chair of the biomedical informatics department, said he believes biomedical informatics is one of the “drivers of the future of healthcare.”
Graduate students protesting stipends will send 500 Valentine’s Day cards to UB President Satish Tripathi’s home on Feb. 15.
Sub-Board I, the nonprofit auxiliary organization responsible for managing student fees on behalf of student governments, passed a vote yesterday to keep Blue Cross Blue Shield as UB’s health insurance provider, even though it charges $90 more than Independent Health.
UB’s department of African and African American Studies, one of the oldest in the country, celebrated its 50th anniversary Tuesday, eight years after merging into the Transnational Studies department.
It’s a Friday night. The underground dressing rooms at Club Marcella thump to the beat of pop songs playing above. UB graduate student Shawn Jenner sits in front of a mirror with a full face of makeup. He puts on a large bubblegum-pink wig.
This spring, UB Health Promotion is looking to get a snapshot of student health at UB. UB Health Promotion will email the National College Health Assessment to 20,000 students starting on Monday. The survey, a pilot test by the American College Health Association, collects students’ answers on everything from views on sexual health to mental health. This year’s survey will include questions on food insecurity, health resilience and health communication, according to UB Health Promotion employees.
Bralettes are worn as shirts; Instagram models post photos wearing lace corsets with sweatpants. Lingerie is no longer resigned to the bedroom.
Campus UB Employees Campaign for the Community surpasses campaign goal
Students and professors came together to pull off what history professor Dalia Muller called “an impossible project” – a tribute to civil rights leaders, using limited resources.
The Buffalo community knew Torin Finver as a “driven” man and an expert in addiction medicine, who for the past four years forged unique bonds with patients by making them feel he understood their struggles.
Student Association President Gunnar Haberl presented UB’s first State of the Student Association address on Wednesday night.
Students woke up to blistering snow, cancelled classes and unforgivable winds as plows cleared UB parking lots on Wednesday and Thursday. Across the Buffalo-Niagara region, up to 24 m.p.h. winds and 18 inches of snow whistled in between Tuesday and Thursday night. And you were lucky to feel your face after two minutes if you stepped outside at all.
Thomas Halleck was a “fireball.” He was the kind of guy who lit up every room he entered. Sometimes with his infectious passion for journalism. Other times with a couple of pizza slices, a hula hoop and a toilet paper roll in hand.
Twenty-eight motor vehicle accidents happened on campus Tuesday through Thursday because of low visibility and icy road conditions, according to UPD Deputy Chief Joshua Sticht. Callers reported 10 motor vehicle accidents on Tuesday — seven accidents on North Campus and three on South Campus.
At least two UB international students fell victim to scam phone calls from sources claiming to be Department of Homeland Security officials, who are asking students to purchase gift cards to avoid deportation. International students across the university are receiving the calls, in which the caller impersonates an officer.
A UB faculty member was arrested at his Hamburg home on Monday and charged with a federal drug crime, according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. on Tuesday. Torin Finver, a clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was arrested and charged with importing a controlled substance, a charge that has a maximum penalty of a $1 million fine and 20 years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
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