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  • Memory of Late Historian and Human Rights Activist Alison Des Forges Honored by UB Scholarship
    9/4/12
    The University at Buffalo has established a scholarship in memory of Alison L. Des Forges, the late historian and human rights activist who was killed in the crash of Continental Flight 3407 near Buffalo on Feb. 12, 2009.
  • One-of-a-Kind Smartphone Lab Takes Shape at UB
    8/30/12
    University at Buffalo researchers are enlisting hundreds of students to build an unprecedented smartphone network that will help scientists improve handheld computers and better understand how the devices are changing the world.
  • A New Perk for UB Incubator and Spinoff Companies: Affordable Insurance
    8/30/12
    The University at Buffalo is partnering with the Research Foundation for SUNY to offer a key benefit to startup companies with UB ties: affordable insurance.
  • Summer Research Projects take UB Honors College Students to Unexpected Places
    8/28/12
    Most college students spent the last few months back home enjoying the warm weather and their mother's home-cooked meals. However, Haley Arnold, a University at Buffalo sophomore chemistry major, found herself on Sapelo Island, a small unpopulated island off the coast of Georgia, researching algae blooms.
  • Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: Battles Over Segregated Recreation Shaped Civil Rights Movement
    8/23/12
    Victoria W. Wolcott, PhD, associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, is the author of a new book in which she exposes the legacy of segregated recreation in American cities after World War II. The book, "Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America," out this month from the University of Pennsylvania Press, continues Wolcott's research on the African-American experience in the 20th-century urban North.
  • UB CEL to Hold Open House for Minority and Women Entrepreneurs
    8/22/12
    The University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) will host an information session for individuals interested in learning more about the 2013 Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs (MWEE) program.
  • Cropp Named 2012 Buffalo Niagara Executive of the Year
    8/20/12
    Michael W. Cropp, MD, president and CEO of Independent Health, has been named the 2012 Buffalo Niagara Executive of the Year by the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Real to Reel: Ancient Greece and Rome in the Movies
    8/16/12
    Was "Spartacus" an anti-fascist polemic? Does "Agora" demonstrate the horrors of anti-science religious zealotry? Did the Trojans really dress only in blue and white outfits? Quiz: Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor in un-credited roles plus 32,000 costumes. The answers are yes, yes, no and "Quo Vadis."
  • UB Archaeologists Digging Up Buffalo's Canalside
    8/15/12
    For several years, teams of University at Buffalo archaeologists from the Buffalo Archaeological Survey have conducted digs in downtown Buffalo along what was the Erie Canal. The artifacts they've found, when considered together, help describe how Buffalonians lived and worked from the early 1800s onward.
  • New Documentary by UB's Miller Sheds Light on Attica and the Human Costs to Workers, Inmates in Maximum-Security Prisons
    8/8/12
    The scene looks normal -- a father kicking a soccer ball to his children, rubbing their heads in playful affection. The iconic towers and fence in the background tell the real story.