The UB Zen Buddhism Club threw an atypical birthday party on Saturday.With activities including meditation, crafts and a feast, the celebration in the Student Union honored the 2,500th anniversary of the birth of Guatama Buddha.Born Siddhartha Gautama around 563 B.C.E.
In an effort to study how methamphetamine disrupts the immune system, UB researchers have received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.Madhavan P.N.
An exhibit commemorating the great earthquake that shook San Francisco 100 years ago this week has been setup on the first floor of the Undergraduate Library by the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research.The display, "A City in Ruins: The San Francisco Earthquake and Fires of 1906," will be up until the end of May in UGL, and then throughout the summer in Lockwood.Photos in the exhibit document the destruction of the notorious earthquake that ruptured 296 miles of the San Andreas Fault from northwest of San Juan Bautista all the way to Cape Mendocino."The images selected will give anybody the perspective of what occurred 100 years ago," said Jill Tarabula, an information specialist at the UB Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research.Beyond the damage caused in and around San Francisco, the earthquake was felt as far away as Southern Oregon and Central Nevada.
The bald eagle might be an American symbol, but few people have a chance to see this patriotic icon up close.
Clark Hall has been a home for UB athletics and intramurals for over 70 years, and little has changed since it was built in 1937.
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