Jaekyung Lee, UB professor of counseling, school and educational
psychology, and interim dean of the Graduate School of
Education, has been appointed dean of the school.
UB’s Educational Opportunity Center has opened its new
home adjacent to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, a move that
allows the center to take a greater role in serving Buffalo’s
downtown community and expand programming for underserved
students.
University of Pittsburgh Provost Patricia Beeson has been
selected to lead UB's Middle States reaccreditation team and will
make a preliminary visit to the university in October.
Gifted Math Program graduate Samendra Prasad, who will head off
to the University of Virginia with seven years of college math
under his belt, is just another success story for the Graduate
School of Education program.
UB historian David Gerber has been selected by the Organization
of American Historians to lead a seminar in the People’s
Republic of China that marks the first OAH venture into the
country.
Jaekyung Lee, UB professor of counseling, school and educational
psychology, and interim dean of the Graduate School of
Education, has been appointed dean of the school.
UB law professor Susan Mangold will open the Newman
Center’s annual Bridge Lecture Series on June 19 with a legal
update on the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal.
Rear Adm. Rebecca McCormick-Boyle, Navy chief of staff, Bureau
of Medicine and Surgery, and a 1981 graduate of the UB School of
Nursing, recently came back to her alma mater to receive the
school’s 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has directed that flags on state government buildings—including those at UB—be flown at half-mast on June 14 in honor of three New Yorkers who died in Zarghun Shahr, Afghanistan, on June 8.
ESPN2 will broadcast the UB football team’s season opener against Ohio State on Aug. 31, putting the first-ever meeting between the teams on the national stage. Kickoff is at noon in Ohio Stadium.
UB Police last week welcomed nearly 50 police and law enforcement officers from throughout New York State for the first police honor guard training of its kind in Western New York.
Social Work Dean Nancy Smyth has earned the designation “Best in #SocialWork: 101 Twitter Accounts to Follow” on MSWOnlinePrograms.org. Smyth’s personal Twitter account, @njsmyth, is ranked 34th.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has directed that flags on state government buildings—including those at UB—be flown at half-mast on June 5 in honor of a Fort Drum soldier who died in Sharan, Afghanistan, on June 1.
A free workshop on “Conducting Qualitative Research Interviews” will be held from 3-5 p.m. June 5 in Room 208 of theUB Downtown Gateway, 77 Goodell St., Buffalo.
The School of Social Work’s podcast series inSocialWorkSM—formerly known as Living Proof—has won a national award in the “Best Website” category of the National Association of Social Work (NASW) Media Awards.
Campus Dining and Shops has earned a silver award in this year’s National College and University Food Service Association’s (NACUFS) Sustainability Awards contest.
