Student Life

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Digging in the sandbox
6/29/15
The innovative entrepreneurial program pays eight student-led technology startups to further their respective businesses.
UB series to present free films under the stars
6/17/15
Some of the summer’s biggest movies, including “Tomorrowland,” “Furious 7” and “Mad Max: Fury Road,” are in the lineup for the UB undergraduate Student Association’s popular, free outdoor Summer Film Series.
UB Space Bulls place third at NASA Mars rover contest in Texas
6/12/15
At the contest, the rover's arm failed, forcing the students to act quickly — they needed to make the fix within 10 minutes or they’d be disqualified.
UB graduating senior dedicated to worldwide gender equality wins Fulbright Scholarship to Jordan
6/2/15
When UB Fulbright winner Samah A. Asfour was a junior studying in the Aix-en-Provence of France, she didn’t fully understand discrimination toward the Arab community until she met her host mother.
Six first-year MBAs win Verney case competition
6/2/15
A team of six MBA students from the UB School of Management will share a $2,000 prize as winner of the school’s ninth annual Steven C. Verney MBA Case Competition.
UB anthropology student receives prestigious Fulbright to UK
5/18/15
A UB anthropology student just finishing her freshman year will take her passion for the “connections through time” to Durham University in Great Britain as one of three 2015 UB Fulbright Scholars.
Two majors, one minor, no problem
5/14/15
Mention the idea of that universal translator to UB senior Natasha Sanford and, though not a science fiction fan, she immediately starts solving the problem of real-time, speech-based translation.
UB School of Management certifies largest LeaderCORE class
5/13/15
The UB School of Management awarded LeaderCORE™ certification to 49 MBA students in a ceremony held last month at the Marriott Hotel in Amherst.
UB master’s student scores national accounting assistantship
5/12/15
Joshua Seward, a graduate student in the UB School of Management, was among only 14 students nationwide chosen for an elite postgraduate technical assistantship with the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
Economics student receives competitive Boren scholarship
5/11/15
Casey Rothberg, only the second UB student ever to win the competitive David L. Boren Scholarship, fits the scholarship program’s profile on paper well.