Joseph Conte, chair of the English Department since 2001, will resign in May and remain on staff as a professor, according to department officials and professors.Although Conte's plans to step down were not unexpected, the department has been unable to find an in-house professor willing to step up to the chair's office.
While the likes of student-athletes like Turner Battle have been grabbing all the headlines for UB sports lately, the university's long-term athletic success might rest on the shoulders of a quieter, more behind-the-scenes sort of star.That star is Gene Corrigan, a high-profile sports consultant who has served as president of the NCAA, commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and athletic director at both the University of Virginia and University of Notre Dame.Corrigan's latest job is to assess UB's entire athletics program.
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