Fall 2020

The Profiles

Cover Story - Alumna Profile

Serving the Front Lines
1/30/19
Hired as Catholic Health’s chief integration officer, Rebecca McCormick-Boyle, BS ’81, found herself with a new role amid the uncharted chaos of a global health crisis.

Student Profile

Rediscovering Her Roots, Serving Others
1/30/19
Pemba Sherpa doesn’t know where life will take her next, but acknowledges how far she’s come.

Faculty Profile

Speaking Truth to Power
1/30/19
When Henry Louis Taylor Jr. was a little boy, he remembers his father posing enigmatic but probing questions. “He would always ask me things like, ‘Son, what victories will you win for humanity?’ he says. “‘How will you change the world?’”

Donor Profile

Alumnus entrusts his pulp fiction collection to UB
10/29/20
UB alumnus George Kelley donated more than 30,000 pieces of pulp fiction materials to the University Libraries. The collection serves as a resource for enthusiasts as well as academics studying the emerging field of fandom.

Departments

First Person

When Race and Space Converge
1/30/19
Dexter Johnson, PhD is a NASA technical fellow, a minister, entrepreneur and frequent motivational speaker as “Dr. Dex.”

At This Time

Six Months at UB in Pictures
11/5/20
Browse a snapshot of campus life from the spring and summer of 2020.

Nostalgia

Lab Science Lessons
10/21/20
Students in 1898 carefully do their lab work in the medical school, then located downtown at 24 High St.

Discoveries