A Bar Mitzvah Year of Service honoring Rabbi Shay Mintz, who for 13 years has served and inspired Jewish college students at the UB-based Hillel of Buffalo, will be held at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.
Gov. George E. Pataki was the guest of honor Oct. 26 at the grand-opening ceremonies of the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research, one of the nation's leading supercomputing centers.
The Coalition on Urban Education in the Graduate School of Education at UB has teamed up with several community groups in an effort to reach out to parents of children attending Buffalo Public Schools.
William Minniefield's determination to convince the African-American community that organ donation is a good and necessary thing has resulted in a major grant award to the University at Buffalo and the regional transplant agency to accomplish that goal.
Frank Lloyd Wright scholar Robert McCarter will speak at 6 p.m. Oct. 20 in the Performing Arts Center auditorium at Buffalo State College as part of the UB School of Architecture and Planning's Fall Lecture Series.
Bill Moyers, well-known television program producer and host, journalist and author, will speak at 8 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Center for the Arts Mainstage theater on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has recognized the work of the Western New York Younger Chemists Committee (WNY YCC) at UB with a Local Section Younger Chemist Committee Award.
C.K. Williams, award-winning contemporary American poet and translator, will present the 23rd annual Oscar Silverman Memorial Poetry Reading at 8 p.m. Nov. 12 in 250 Baird Hall on the UB North Campus.
The critical worldwide shift of higher-education costs from governments and taxpayers to students and their parents has raised serious concerns among educators here and abroad because it severely restricts access to higher education for millions of low-income students in many nations. To illuminate the problem and resolve the critical policy issues related to this crisis, the University at Buffalo will host a major international meeting of policy experts and researchers in higher-education finance on Nov. 14-16.