Past Campus News

Roughly 45 people attended a discussion last week in Allen Hall about how UB plans to demolish a shuttered nuclear research reactor on the South Campus.

“The Great Dictator,” Charlie Chaplin’s controversial masterpiece and first true talking movie, is among the offerings in the spring 2013 edition of the Buffalo Film Seminars, the popular, semester-long series of film screenings and discussions hosted by UB faculty members Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson.

Andrew M. Stott, professor of English and director of the Honors College, has been named dean for undergraduate education, effective Jan. 1.

UB is again ranked as one of the best universities in the country, according to the annual “Best Colleges” rankings released yesterday by U.S. News and World Report.

World Trade Center of Buffalo Niagara is receiving approximately $682,000 in funding, including $218,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce, to help local medical-device manufacturers sell their goods in China.

UB Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua has received three major honors—two in the international law arena, one here at home.

The Office of International Education has announced that Provost Charles F. Zukoski has authorized the relaunch of the Faculty Internationalization Fund (FIF), a popular initiative that from 2009-11 provided travel grants to dozens of UB faculty members to assist them in developing new, sustainable initiatives with institutional partners overseas.

The Professional Staff Senate will kick off a series of campuswide Realizing UB 2020 “feedback sessions” this week with two roundtable forums to gather input from the professional staff on the initiative to determine the university’s priorities and the direction it should go to achieve its goal of moving into the next tier of public research universities.

Marsha Lewis, professor and dean of the School of Nursing, was selected by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing to be part of its inaugural class of nursing deans and senior faculty in the first AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo yesterday awarded $52.8 million to fund 58 projects identified in an economic development plan created by the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council (WNYREDC), co-chaired by President Satish K. Tripathi and local businessman Howard Zemsky.