First Look
They did it!
In a moment of sheer jubilation, President John B. Simpson and Coach Turner Gill celebrate the UB Bulls’ decisive win over unbeaten Ball State, 42-24, to capture the 2008 MAC Championship December 5 at Detroit’s Ford Field. An elated Warde Manuel, UB director of athletics, looks on.
Photo: Paul Hokanson
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Features
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Probing childhood obesity
Research team investigates a startling epidemic, while pioneering family focused treatments
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The voice of America’s physicians
Nancy Nielsen, MD ’76, presides over the nation’s most influential physicians’ group as AMA president
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Avenues of access
Bevy of programs helps students in need reach higher to carve their part of the American dream
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Thunder of the East
Marching band’s pageantry, passion and precision inspire fans and players alike
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Online Exclusive
Golden airwaves
Celebrating WBFO’s golden anniversary
Profiles
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Joe Freedy, BA ’02
Former Bulls quarterback is ordained to the priesthood
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Louis Slovinsky, BA ’64
Retired executive with Time Inc. is sculptor, painter, author
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Lisa Albrecht, PhD ’84, MA ’75
& BA ’72Scholar, activist and teacher offers an inspiring worldview
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Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, EdM ’01
Community foundation leader draws on her own immigrant story
UB in the News
USA Today interviews UB accounting professor on Eastman Kodak's bankruptcy filing
An article in USA Today on Eastman Kodak?s bankruptcy filing, which has caused huge cuts to pay, benefits and insurance coverage for retirees and employees, quotes Martha Salzman, assistant professor of accounting and law in the UB School of Management.
NPR interviews UB professor on Pres. Obama?s plan to reduce gun violence
Steven Dubovsky, chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was interviewed live on NPR?s ?Here & Now,? which airs on 170 NPR affiliates nationwide, about President Barack Obama?s $500 million plan to reduce gun violence.
Buffalo News front-page story features UB study on use of stem cells in MS
A front-page story in the Buffalo News reports on a new study soon to be underway at UB and two other upstate medical centers to test a procedure that infuses stem cells into the brains of patients with multiple sclerosis to repair damage to their central nervous systems. The article quotes Bianca Guttman-Weinstock, co-principal investigator on the study. ?Expectations have to be kept under control,? she said. ?You?re not going to implant stem cells in people and suddenly see them running around.?