CAR CRUNCHER. William Yip, a senior finance and marketing major, takes a whack at a jalopy parked in front of the Student Union on Monday. The Car Cruncher event kicked off Spirit Week, a series of activities designed to get the campus pumped up for the Homecoming football game against the Akron Zips on Saturday. (Photo: Sue Wuetcher)
UB is part of new NIH center
UB is one of eight institutions that will be affiliated with a new National Center for Biomedical Ontology established by the National Institutes of Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine. » Full Story
UB scientists head to New Orleans
Dispatched to Mississippi days after Hurricane Katrina hit, research teams from UB's Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research are now in New Orleans studying environmental and health issues. » Full Story
"Apprentice" helps hone students' skills. A UB pharmacy professor is using the hit TV reality show "The Apprentice" to help his students develop their own business skills.
Microtubules key to mental disorders. UB neuroscientists have shown that destabilization of structures called microtubules likely underlie many mental disorders and could be promising targets for intervention.
Dental care for rural kids. The UB School of Dental Medicine's mobile dental clinic has treated more than 7,000 children since it took to the roads of the Southern Tier 10 years ago.
Documenting a changing New York. UB staff member Douglas Levere has revisited the changing landscape of New York City as documented by legendary photographer Berenice Abbott.
Katrina exposed plight of poor. Author Alex Kotlowitz told a Distinguished Speakers Series audience that Hurricane Katrina pulled back the curtain on the plight of America's poor.
Construction update. A list highlighting some of the 195 projects of all types at various stages of planning, design or construction that are under way at UB.
Seven to be inducted into Hall of Fame. Six UB alumni and an administrator will be inducted into the Alumni Association Athletic Hall of Fame during a ceremony tonight.
Athletics, academics on same team. UB's new athletics director told the Faculty Senate Executive Committee yesterday that in his world, athletics will never be more important than academics.