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  • Lance Armstrong Added to UB Distinguished Speakers Series
    3/8/12
    Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France winner and founder of the Lance Armstrong Foundation has been added to the spring lineup of the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series.
  • UB Undergraduates Showcase Research to Elected Officials and SUNY Chancellor
    3/7/12
    Four University at Buffalo students presented original research in diverse fields to elected officials and State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher as part of "Discovery -- An Undergraduate Showcase," a symposium on undergraduate research and creative activities presented by the SUNY Faculty Senate.
  • Space Shuttle Software Advances UB Student Group's Community Service Mission
    3/2/12
    Simulated missions to space have recently begun launching from Jarvis Hall on the University at Buffalo North Campus, thanks to a donation from Exciting Simulations to the UB chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (UB-SEDS).
  • Second-Year MBAs Capture Top Spot in Case Competition
    2/28/12
    A team of four MBA students in the University at Buffalo School of Management will share a $2,000 prize as winners of the 16th annual UB MBA Case Competition.
  • UB MBAs to Take GM's Newest Cars for a Spin
    2/21/12
    Alternative fuels -- battery, diesel, electric and fuel cell -- will be in the spotlight when University at Buffalo MBAs test-drive GM's newest cars from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday, Feb. 24, at thUB's Center for Tomorrow.
  • Media Advisory: No Snow? That Won't Stop UB Winterfest!
    2/17/12
    Snow or no snow, the University at Buffalo will hold Winterfest 2012, a UB tradition for more than 60 years, from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18, at South Lake Village on the North Campus. Open to all UB students, faculty and staff, it's a great way for the entire campus community to shake off hibernation for a day.
  • UB Makes Four-Year Graduation Pledge to Incoming Freshman Students
    2/16/12
    University at Buffalo Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Bruce D. McCombe today announced the launch of a new program, Finish in 4, which pledges to provide entering UB freshmen with the academic resources they need to graduate in four years.
  • Quiet Carpets and Fiberglass Formation: UB Students Solve Engineering Problems to Win Knovel University Challenge
    2/14/12
    Two University at Buffalo students know all about why your footfalls echo more loudly on bare floors than on those that are carpeted. They also know the melting point of nylon 6, the density of high-volume fly ash concrete, and the uses for methyl ethyl ketone peroxide. Correct answers to questions about these topics (and more like them) helped the two UB students place very highly in the 2011 Knovel University Challenge.
  • Can i(Pod) Take Your Order? UB Grad and Former Student Launch Technology Start-Up to Market Restaurant App
    2/10/12
    Paper be damned. Two former servers from Western New York are spinning their experience waiting tables into a technology start-up that offers a digital solution for managing food and drink orders. Refulgent Software, based in the University at Buffalo's Technology Incubator, produces and markets "Ambur," an iPod and iPad app that serves as a restaurant point-of-service system.
  • MLK Speech in Buffalo 45 Years Ago is a Legacy for UB's Annual Commemoration Lecture
    2/6/12
    On Feb. 16, popular author and broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien will deliver the University at Buffalo's 36th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Lecture at Buffalo's Kleinhans Music Hall. Her talk comes 45 years after King himself addressed an audience at Kleinhans at the invitation of the UB Graduate Student Association (GSA).