MAKE MINE RARE. The dogs and burgers were plentiful last Thursday as University Facilities held its annual Hot Dog Roast outside the Beane Center on the far reaches of the North Campus. Tending to the grub (from left ) are Robert Innes, staff assistant, Facilities Operations; Joseph Miller, union electrician, Facilities Planning and Design; Louis Nader, union electrician, Facilities Planning and Design; Thomas Hessel, supervising carpenter, Facilities Operations, and Robert Najjar, manager, hazardous waste, Environment, Health and Safety Services. (Photo: Donna Longenecker)
UB underscores commitment to sustainable energy use
Members of the university community gathered at Creekside Village apartments on Tuesday to unveil a plaque citing the certification of the complex's community center as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building. » Full Story
Emergency exercise to be staged. The sirens will be real, but fortunately, the flames will not as UB and local fire and mutual aid entities gain experience in dealing with a "fire" scenario in the Ellicott Complex.
In the birthplace of Western theater. A group of UB theater students will hit the road again later this month, this time to Olympia, Greece, to perform their adaptation of Leonard Melfi's play "Birdbath" during an international theater festival.
Informatics adds new certification. The School of Informatics this fall will begin a new post-graduate program that will award an advanced certificate in medical/health informatics.