Student Life

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  • UB Researchers Investigate Ways to Reduce College Drinking and Risky Sex
    10/20/11
    In a recent study conducted by scientists at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions involving 154 heavy-drinking college students whose sexual behavior put them at risk for HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), there were two expected findings and one surprise.
  • When 'A Crazy Long Shot' Becomes a Match, UB Student Donates Bone Marrow
    3/25/11
    Like most people who don't personally know someone who needs a transplant, University at Buffalo student Alex Teschemacher hadn't considered becoming a bone marrow donor. But in the fall of 2009, while walking through the UB Student Union, he and a friend came upon a National Marrow Donor Program recruitment drive sponsored by the UB Prehealth Advising office. On the spur of the moment, they decided to register.
  • Double Engineering Major is a Double Threat on the Court and in the Classroom
    2/14/11
    There's never been a dull University at Buffalo moment for Kourtney Brown. Standing 6-feet-tall, Brown is a star athlete on the women's basketball team, as her recent record-breaking 35-point scoring night against Miami of Ohio shows.
  • Computing for a Cause: UB's Geeks Help Disabled Veterans Talk, Surf the Web, Gain Independence
    12/21/10
    Computer science might not be the obvious major for students looking to change the world. But two teams of University at Buffalo students are proving that programming can translate into compassion.
  • Top UB Engineering Students Won't Pay a Dime From Freshman Year Through the PhD
    12/8/10
    To attract and retain the most intellectually gifted students, the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the UB Honors College have announced the Presidential Scholarship/Doctoral Fellowship, which will provide full scholarships for qualified UB engineering students from freshman year through completion of their doctoral degrees.
  • Media Advisory: UB's "Operation Doorhanger" to Remind Students, Neighbors about Safety
    8/24/10
    "Doorhanger" kits containing safety reminders and tips on how to be a good neighbor will be distributed to more than 2,700 homes surrounding the University at Buffalo's South Campus from 3-6 p.m. today (Tuesday, Aug. 24).
  • UB Undergraduate Team Explores Weightlessness, Courtesy of NASA
    8/20/10
    A team of University at Buffalo students, all members of the UB student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to spend a week in Houston in June at NASA's Johnson Space Center to test an experiment the students had designed in simulated weightlessness.
  • UB Med Students Take Good Nutrition to Heart, Establish Campus Vegetable Garden
    4/23/10
    A quarter-acre vegetable garden is taking shape at the University at Buffalo, pioneered by a group of medical students who are putting into practice one of the axioms of the modern Hippocratic Oath: "I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure."
  • UB Libraries Offer Leisure Reading Collections in Japanese, Chinese, Korean
    4/15/10
    Lockwood Memorial Library at the University at Buffalo now has international collections of popular fiction and non-fiction books in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese -- three languages spoken by large and growing segments of the UB community.
  • UB Law School Students Propose Renewable Energy Solutions for Haiti
    4/13/10
    University at Buffalo Law School students will suggest ways renewable energy resources can reshape Haiti's future in a free, public forum 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 14 at the Cellino and Barnes Conference Center, 509 John Lord O'Brian Hall, on UB's North Campus.