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.
