As I write this, one of my best friends is recovering from surgery. His left lung was removed on Tuesday morning in an attempt to remove a cancerous tumor from his chest, and while the operation appears to have been a success, he will no longer be able to live his life to the fullest.He is only 22, a recent graduate of Polytechnic University with a high-paying job in the computer science field.
Campus parking has been a major gripe among students over the past several years, resulting in UB's commissioning Chance Management Advisors Inc., a Philadelphia-based consulting firm, to conduct a study regarding parking and transportation issues on UB's campuses.While the final draft has not been completed, the company has raised several key issues.
Graduate Student Association President Janine Santiago threatened to withdraw from Sub-Board I, UB's student-run service corporation, citing several complaints she has with the organization.
Boy, you have got to love those Mets fans. In the pre-season they got all pumped up because General Manager Steve Phillips brought in some high-priced "talent." Yeah, that's the same talent that includes Shawn Estes, who couldn't even hit Roger Clemens with the ball, never mind pitch close to .500 for the Mets.
South Campus will, finally, receive renovations - school officials have laid out plans for expansions and improvements that will open apartment-style housing on South Campus, in addition to remodeling the residence halls currently available.The plans, announced at an Amherst Town Board meeting Monday night, call for the transformation of Goodyear Hall into apartments, construction of brand-new apartment buildings, and the renovation of Clement Hall and Harriman Hall.
JERUSALEM--Cheryl Matthews is deeply committed to her faith. But in the weeks leading up to Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which begins Friday at sundown, she began a prayer group to make her feel even closer to God.Yisrael Stefansky is giving more thought and more time to reading the psalms of the Hebrew Bible.
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - New York Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde has watched the film several times, replaying it like a bad dream.
As part of an "effort to improve culture and recruit students and retain students," Dennis Black, vice president for student affairs, and Michael Dupre, associate vice president for University Facilities, unveiled a "master plan" to create new residence halls and student apartments on South Campus during an Amherst Town Planning meeting Wednesday night.A major focus of the plan, Black and Dupre said, is to provide a sense of community, both on campus and off.Renovations to South Campus will include a revamping of Clement Hall, the transformation of Goodyear Hall into high-rise apartments, the construction of village-style apartments in place of McDonald, Pritchard and Schoellkopf Halls, and the transformation of Harriman Hall into the central hub of the South Campus community.University Facilities has already renovated several classrooms in Hayes Hall as well as masonry on the stone facades of many of the academic halls, and torn down two of the aluminum buildings that once stood in the center of the South Campus courtyard, Dupre said.He added that renovations to the academic buildings on South Campus often go unnoticed, though they are equally important to housing projects.
In the minds of students, medical school represents many things: a great accomplishment, an exhausting financial endeavor, a lifelong goal, or that which is unattainable because you simply cannot understand algebra.As college students, many remain curious about the steps it takes to get into medical school.
UBVolleyballTue: Cleveland St. 3, Buffalo 0Local Pro TeamsBuffalo BisonsWed: Buffalo 12, Scranton/WB 4Thurs: Buffalo 6, Scranton/WB 5 (10 innings)
The recording industry and the nation's largest telephone company are crossing legal swords in what could be a test case of how far big record labels can go to track down computer users who swap music online.
This semester, through a partnership with USA Today and the New York Times, UB unveiled its Collegiate Readership Program.
UB officially brought Michael Dell and more than 2,000 of his company's computers into its high-tech bioinformatics project Tuesday, creating a $13 million supercomputer that is likely the third most powerful in the world.The interconnected Dell PowerEdge servers are the latest addition to the university's Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and the Center for Computational Research, which has secured $61 million in funding in this year's state budget and has attracted approximately $290 million from government and commercial partners over the last two years.More than 80,000 pounds of hardware have been installed in a former food services space in Norton Hall, just 90 days after signing a purchase contract with Dell Computer Corporation.
An accepted proposal to conduct research on the effect of a micro-gravity environment on blood flow landed members of UB's chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, at NASA's mission control last summer, where the team hopes to return later this year."Seeing the building, seeing mission control - it was really exciting to see the people I could actually be working with," said team member Nicole Kulpit, a sophomore aerospace engineering major.
A new season brings new hope for the University at Buffalo's men's soccer team and they have something to prove.
If you were among the many to see Jimmy Fallon last semester at the Center for the Arts, there will be no need to rush out and purchase his debut CD, "The Bathroom Wall." If you didn't catch the show, put the disc on your shopping list.Fallon, brought to fame by Saturday Night Live, pumps out 37 minutes of comedy and music on the album, taken from the tour that hit UB last Spring.The musical selections from the disc include "Idiot Boyfriend," in which Fallon sings in a falsetto voice to a groovy bass line about the worst boyfriend imaginable.
Thanks to the increase in the size of UB's undergraduate population, the Student Association has been granted an additional seat on the State University of New York Student Association.Last spring, the undergraduate student body elected three representatives to serve as UB delegates: Anthony Burgio, Yesenia Diaz and Kathryn Walsh.
Jason Aupperle plays Jason Stark: a hard-nosed, womanizing reporter, whose activities consist of sleeping with a colleague's wife and throwing pencils at Ron the Camera Guy.
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