Student Life

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  • 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.
  • UB Student Groups Host Major Environmental Conference
    4/13/10
    Student environmental activists from Western and Central New York are getting ready to teach, learn and discuss New York State's environmental future at Power Shift New York 2010 on the University at Buffalo North Campus on April 16-18.
  • UB Professor's Online Study Guide Makes a Great Gift That Keeps On Giving
    12/17/09
    Parents looking for a meaningful gift to give their high school senior should check out an online study guide by a University at Buffalo professor who first created it as a going-away-to-college guide for his stepdaughter.
  • Solar Energy to Power Student Apartments
    5/7/09
    In its effort to promote renewable energy technologies throughout New York State and in response to Governor Paterson's call to expand New York's renewable energy portfolio, the New York Power Authority today joined with the University at Buffalo to announce a $7.5 million award to the university to construct a 1.1 megawatt solar energy array on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB's Incoming Law School Class Among the Best Ever
    9/4/08
    The University at Buffalo Law School this semester welcomes one of its most accomplished and selective classes in its 120-year history, a group of students Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua called a "breakthrough" for UB Law and the foundation on which to make UB one of the finest law schools in the country.
  • UB's Large International Student Population an Economic, Cultural, Educational Boon
    8/26/08
    More than 15 percent of University at Buffalo students come from outside the United States -- 4,300-plus last year and about the same number expected for the new academic year, which began yesterday. It is a population UB is working hard to increase.