Student Life

The inaugural University at Buffalo Scholarship Gala will be held on Nov. 4. to raise funds for undergraduate and graduate student scholarships across the university.

Students at the University at Buffalo recently were inducted into the Omicron Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.

Twenty-eight students were honored for being the outstanding graduating senior in departments within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo's 160th general commencement ceremony held on May 14.

Stories of the Americas, a performance and speaker series presented by the American Studies Graduate Student Association at the University at Buffalo, will debut later this month with several presentations by Native American storyteller Ishmael Hope.

Sara Rivera-Riemer of Tonawanda, a 2003 graduate of the University at Buffalo's School of Nursing, is one of five persons selected to receive a 3-year, $75,000 scholarship to complete doctoral training in nursing at UB.

The University at Buffalo's Department of Theatre and Dance will present Merrily We Roll Along on March 30-April 2 and April 6-9 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Showpocalypse, an exhibition of artwork by first-year MFA students from the Department of Art at the University at Buffalo, will open on March 2 with a reception from 5-7 p.m. in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Elemental House, a project by first-year undergraduate students from the Department of Architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, will open with a reception from 6-8 p.m. on March 3 in the UB Anderson Gallery.

Michelle Lynn Niescierenko, of Rochester, a third-year medical student in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a $10,000 American Medical Association Foundation National Scholarship to help offset the cost of her medical education.

Kemper E. Lewis, Ph.D., is borrowing from an ages-old, medical-school teaching method, using "product dissection" to instruct his students in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo.