Awards

News about awards and recognition earned by UB and members of our community. (see all topics)

UB graduate student lands elite accounting assistantship
4/29/14
Matthew Silver, a master’s student in the University at Buffalo School of Management, has been selected as one of only six students nationwide to earn a postgraduate technical assistantship (PTA) with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
UB School of Management honors recruiters, interns and supervisors
4/29/14
The Frank L. Ciminelli Family Career Resource Center and the Credit-Bearing Internship Program in the University at Buffalo School of Management honored business professionals, students and companies on April 25 at an awards reception at The Buffalo Club.
Engineer Alexander Cartwright named SPIE fellow
4/29/14
He is the fourth UB researcher since 2005 to join the elite society.
UB elevator pitch competition winners take big ideas to small screens
4/18/14
Two business ideas for smartphone apps took first place and a prize of $1,000 each in the University at Buffalo’s second annual Elevator Pitch Competition, held April 16 in the Student Union Theater on UB’s North Campus.
UB to celebrate student research and successes
4/18/14
University at Buffalo students and faculty will gather on April 23 to recognize the scholarly, research and creative achievements of the university’s students at the 10th annual Celebration of Student Academic Excellence.
UB’s Reed-Danahay receives NEH grant
4/16/14
Deborah Reed-Danahay, PhD, of Buffalo, professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo, has received a 2014 summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Research Programs to complete the draft manuscript of her fifth book.
Mazzio named 2014-15 Guggenheim fellow
4/15/14
Carla Mazzio, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the University at Buffalo Department of English, has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for 2014-15 for her book-in-progress, “The Trouble With Numbers: The Drama of Mathematics in the Age of Shakespeare.”
RIA awarded $2.7 million to help improve alcohol treatment strategies
4/14/14
Making alcohol treatment more efficient and effective is the long-term goal of a $2.7 million grant to the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).
UB literacy learning specialist chosen for prestigious mid-career award
4/14/14
Mary McVee, whose work in the University at Buffalo’s Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction (CLaRI) has earned praise and publicity from educational experts as well as mainstream media, has received the Division K Mid-Career Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a national honor recognizing an outstanding researcher in the intermediate stage of her career.
Two UB architecture projects — including Silo City wall — win international awards
4/4/14
The Architizer A+ Awards competition in which UB architects competed attracts entries from dozens of countries.