Student Life

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  • Enrollment in Chemistry Soars at UB, Bucking a National Decline
    8/20/03
    When Jim D. Atwood became the chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo in 1998, he said he wanted to make freshman chemistry "a little less hated." And with about 30 percent of freshmen flunking out of General Chemistry 101, he had a tough job ahead of him. Now, five years later, having instituted major changes in the freshman chemistry courses, Atwood and his faculty have succeeded beyond their most ambitious dreams.
  • UB Celebrates Commitment to Sustainable Energy Use
    8/5/03
    The University at Buffalo's commitment to sustainable energy use and "green" building principles was underscored today as members of the university community gathered at the Creekside Village apartments to unveil a plaque citing the certification of the complex's community center as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building.
  • UB Students Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
    6/2/03
    Students at the University at Buffalo recently were inducted into the Omicron Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.
  • Student-Designed Chairs 'Celebrate the Human Body'
    5/30/03
    The chair. Many view this humble device simply as a means -- sometimes comfortable, sometimes not -- to "take a load off." But for architecture students who completed the seating design assignment in Abir Mullick's "Senior Studio" this spring in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, the chair became something more.
  • UB Students to 'Explore Mars' in Utah
    4/3/03
    University at Buffalo doctoral student Brent Garry has always wanted to go to Mars, but for now he'll settle for Utah. For the next 10 days, he and Abby Semple, another UB doctoral student, will be part of a small team that is simulating the living and working conditions on Mars by donning space suits, exploring the geology of the very "Mars-like" canyons of Utah.
  • UB Students Called to Serve in Active Duty
    3/24/03
    Any day now, University at Buffalo student and National Guard reservist Mark Costa expects to be called to duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He doesn't know where he'll be assigned, but he knows he'll go very soon. When Costa departs, postponing the final semester of his graduate studies in library and information sciences, he'll join approximately 25 UB students already called to duty by all branches of the U.S. military.
  • Columbia Space Shuttle Tragedy Will Not Deter UB Aerospace Students from Pursuing Their Dreams
    2/3/03
    News of Saturday's space shuttle tragedy was especially upsetting to students who belong to the University at Buffalo's chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a nationwide association of students and professionals with career interests in space flight and exploration.
  • UB to Open Newly Renovated Ellicott Food Court
    1/9/03
    The Division of Student Affairs and the Faculty Student Association at the University at Buffalo this semester will open the newly renovated Ellicott Food Court in the new atrium in the center of the Ellicott Complex on the North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Student Association Pledges $25,000 to Newly Established "Random Acts of Kindness Fund"
    12/9/02
    The University at Buffalo undergraduate Student Association (SA) has pledged $25,000 over five years to an endowment fund designed to help undergraduate students who are experiencing financial difficulties stay in school.
  • UB Launches New Articulation Web Site
    11/15/02
    The UB Office of Transfer and Articulation Services has launched a new transfer course articulation Web site, called TAURUS, that replicates and enhances the services that were available in ARIES, the university's award-winning articulation Web application.