Student Life

News about the student experience at UB. (see all topics)

  • Undergrad Research Conference Draws Students Nationwide to UB and WNY
    7/15/12
    More than 500 undergraduates from around the country, most of them first-generation college students, will arrive in Western New York this week for a research conference intended to spark their interest in careers in academia.
  • Research Opportunities at UB Push Undergraduate Education Boundaries
    6/26/12
    Phil Tucciarone knew as a high school student that he wanted to study nanotechnology; it was just a matter of where. The Ivy League was an option, but so was the University at Buffalo, where he enrolled in 2010. The decision paid off.
  • UB Sophomore Receives Prestigious Boren Scholarship
    6/21/12
    Sarah Boerschig, a sophomore history and Asian studies major and University Honors College scholar at the University at Buffalo, is the first UB student to receive the 2012 David L. Boren Scholarship from the National Security Education Program.
  • UB Medical Student and Manager at Lighthouse Free Clinic Receives AMA Minority Scholars Award
    6/15/12
    Michael J. Blanco, a third-year medical student at the University at Buffalo, has won an American Medical Association Foundation 2012 Minority Scholars Award.
  • First Biomedical Engineering Students Graduate from UB
    6/15/12
    The University at Buffalo recently celebrated the first graduating class from its Department of Biomedical Engineering, a milestone for the fast-growing program that focuses on developing medical devices and therapies for diabetes, cancer and other illnesses.
  • Gender-Neutral Housing Introduced at UB
    6/4/12
    For the first time, student couples of the opposite sex at the University at Buffalo will be able to live together in on-campus housing. UB Campus Living will introduce gender-neutral housing into student campus residence halls and apartments in the fall.
  • UB Student Awarded Research Grant to Stop the Noise
    5/30/12
    University at Buffalo neuroscience PhD student Sarah Hayes has won a $10,000 grant from the American Tinnitus Association (ATA) to aid her in her search for the causes of tinnitus.
  • UB Accounting Students Chosen for Prestigious Internships
    5/14/12
    For a new accounting graduate, an internship with the Financial Accounting Standards Board or the Governmental Accounting Standards Board is the business school equivalent of clerking for a Supreme Court justice. And that's just what two graduate students from the University at Buffalo School of Management have accomplished.
  • Harvard Law Dean to Deliver Keynote at UB Law Commencement Ceremony
    5/14/12
    Martha Minow, dean of Harvard Law as well as the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at that institution, will be the keynote speaker May 19 as the University at Buffalo Law School celebrates its 123rd commencement.
  • Inspired by true stories: Two New UB Graduates Fight the Odds to Become Nurses
    5/11/12
    On Saturday, May 12, Jacob Madonia and My Lan N. Le will cross the stage at the University at Buffalo's School of Nursing commencement to get their diplomas in the last leg of a marathon whose finish line must have seemed, at times, impossible to cross.