Our Stories

Read about just a few of our many alumni and friends who accomplish amazing things around the world.

Ghana program graduates 22 future leaders
9/29/20
Graduates of the 2020 Leadership Empowerment Academy Program gather for a photo. The socially distanced graduation ceremony took place last month at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana.
Turning Obstacles into Opportunity
6/3/20
Brooklyn Democratic Party Leader Rodneyse Bichotte is a Lifelong Trailblazer
Building a Better Mask
6/3/20
Mike Tunkey, BPS '00, views community collaboration as a key component to design.
Feeling connected through Non-traditional social strategies
1/30/19
Non-traditional social strategies, like watching television, are just as effective at fulfilling social needs as family connections or romantic relationships, according to new UB research.
Pharmacy Class of 1981 on the front lines of the local fight against COVID-19
4/28/20
A group of extraordinary alumni from the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Class of 1981 are leaders in local area healthcare systems—and their roles have taken on new meaning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Serving the Front Lines
4/28/20
School of Nursing alumna and U.S. Navy leader returns to WNY to help steer the fight against COVID-19.

Alumnus entrusts his pulp fiction collection to UB
7/23/20
UB alumnus George Kelley in the University Archives holding several examples of his pulp fiction collection. Photo: Douglas Levere
UB engineering grad gives $10K to student emergency fund
4/8/20
To ensure students' needs are met, Stephen Still has donated $10,000 to UB’s student emergency funds.
Paying it forward
1/30/19
Greer Hamilton and Danise Wilson believe in strengthening minority representation in human services and public health professions.
A country doctor gives UB its largest gift ever
1/30/19
George Ellis Jr., MD ’45, and his wife Kelly, remained anonymous donors until recently. Learn about this amazingly generous couple who gave UB its largest gift ever.

Study sheds new light on certainty of opinions
9/1/20
A UB study is the firsty to show that certainty in an attitude, including an attitude that has not been formed yet, is generally related to one’s certainty in other attitudes.

Giving the world a helping hand
9/1/20
Andrew Olewnik (center left) and students at an e-NABLE workshop in Davis Hall. Participants were taught how to assemble and test previously printed parts of prosthetic hands for children. Photo credit: Doug Levere

UB professor receives $1.8 million grant to improve cancer therapies
7/31/20
Research led by UB faculty member Joseph Balthasar aims to test three platform strategies designed to enhance the distribution of anticancer antibodies and antibody conjugates within solid tumors. Photo: Douglas Levere

From Our Archive

The Buffalo Builder
1/4/16
Thomas P. Dee (EMBA '96, BA '75) has big plans for his hometown waterfront.

The Artful Dresser
9/16/15
It's a casual day for Tziporah Salamon (BA '72): chic Comme des Garçons top; polka dot socks; vibrant red lips.

The Political Cartoonist
11/9/15
Tom Toles (BA '73) has issues—he's paid to. He's a political cartoonist, the Washington Post's one and only.

The Prolific Playwright
9/16/15
Tammy Ryan (BA ’85) has blazed a trail through the world of playwriting. It began in the back of a Buffalo pub.

The Buffalo Booster
9/15/15
Growing up in Buffalo, Ezra Staley (JD/MBA '09) heard a distant song. "The siren call of other places," he calls it.

The Activist Attorney
9/16/15
Yetta Kurland (MA ‘94, BA ‘90), a civil rights attorney and activist, is used to waging battles on multiple fronts.

The Beloved Educator
11/13/15
Learn how Vincent J. Coppola's (EdD ’71, EdM ’66, EdM ’63) “calming personality” gets districts back on track.

The Clock Winder
9/16/15
As important moments go, you might say Michael Tunkey (BPS '00) has had a bunch of them.