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Shortly before the Thanksgiving break, University Communications photographer Meredith Forrest Kulwicki joined Jason Corwin's IDS 104: Introduction to Land-Based Learning class in the Letchworth Teaching Forest on the North Campus. When developing the course, Corwin consulted with the Department of Environment and Sustainability, the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office and University Police to ensure course activities met all safety, liability and insurance requirements.

This photo op with Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott after the team's 39-34 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 7 proved to be a "seven degrees of separation" moment for UB chemistry professor Emanuela Gionfriddo. Gionfriddo attended the game — her very first Bills game — at the suggestion of University of Texas at Arlington chemistry professor Kevin Schug, who was in Buffalo to give a seminar at UB. "Kevin mentioned, 'If the Bills win, we’ll go meet Sean McDermott at the Bills' fieldhouse after the game,'" Gionfriddo told UBNow. "After the game, we went to the fieldhouse, and after a bit Sean McDermott (who has been a close friend of Schug's since their college years at William & Mary) arrived. He was exceptionally kind, approachable and genuinely warm. He was especially happy to hear that I was from the University at Buffalo," Gionfriddo says. "Later, one of my colleagues at UB joked that, being from the University at Buffalo, that picture should belong on my CV!" Photo: Courtesy of Emanuela Gionfriddo