President Satish K. Tripathi has promulgated a proposed academic
calendar revision recommended by the Faculty Senate Executive
Committee that would include the Jewish holy days of Rosh Hashana
and Yom Kippur as recognized class days.
Some Buffalo high school students received an introduction to
the brain and neurovascular diseases during a recent tour of the
Jacobs Institute and UB’s Clinical and Translational Research
Center as part of the UB-led Interdisciplinary Science and
Engineering Partnership.
UB is one of six public research universities recognized in a
new report by the New America Foundation for “embracing key
strategies that make them models for national reform.”
Peter L. Elkin, vice president and professor of medicine at the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been appointed professor and
founding chair of UB’s new Department of Biomedical
Informatics.
Liesl Folks, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, is the recipient of a national award recognizing her
mentorship of science and engineering students.
The eighth edition of the UBThisSummer Lecture Series, the
annual summer series of talks by prominent UB faculty members, will
showcase the university's ongoing research pertaining to the
environment.
UB sociologist Mark Gottdiener has been invited to teach urban
sociology at China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of
the world’s most highly ranked universities.
