Since it opened last Nov. 15, the V.I.S.A. Center has provided roughly 200 students who have been suspended from the Buffalo Public Schools for acts of violence a safe, weapon-free environment where they can feel comfortable expressing themselves. And even the toughest-acting students seem to be finding something they need there.
Charisma -- who has it and who doesn't -- will be the topic of a lecture by James R. Meindl, professor in the University at Buffalo School of Management, at a Senior Alumni Luncheon to be held at noon on June 6 in the atrium of the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.
Twelve students in the Department of Chemical Engineering in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences received awards at the department's graduation/convocation ceremony held earlier this month.
Twenty-one University at Buffalo students received awards for excellence in their fields of study during the UB School of Management commencement ceremony held on May 12.
University at Buffalo graduate Andres Eduardo Losada, a native of Bogota, Colombia, now living in Elma, has been awarded a $10,000 graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society.
Thirty-eight individuals named on patents issued to The Research Foundation of State University of New York in 2000 will be honored when UB holds its annual inventors reception on May 16.
Students from the University at Buffalo choir and chorus next month will travel to New York City to perform what conductor Harold Rosenbaum calls "the most dramatic work imaginable" -- Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 -- in perhaps one of the most dramatic venues imaginable -- Carnegie Hall.
Business executive and civic leader Jeremy M. Jacobs, Sr., has donated the landmark Butler Mansion -- now the Jacobs Executive Development Center -- to the University at Buffalo and its School of Management.
