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  • UB Sophomore Receives Prestigious Boren Scholarship
    6/21/12
    Sarah Boerschig, a sophomore history and Asian studies major and University Honors College scholar at the University at Buffalo, is the first UB student to receive the 2012 David L. Boren Scholarship from the National Security Education Program.
  • First Biomedical Engineering Students Graduate from UB
    6/15/12
    The University at Buffalo recently celebrated the first graduating class from its Department of Biomedical Engineering, a milestone for the fast-growing program that focuses on developing medical devices and therapies for diabetes, cancer and other illnesses.
  • Animal Architecture: Rescued Bee Colony to Get New Buffalo Waterfront Home
    6/4/12
    This week, a massive and thriving colony of bees now living in the walls of an abandoned outbuilding in "Silo City," the former industrial site at the corner of Ohio and Child Streets, will get a glimpse of its brand new home.
  • National Grid Partners with UB to Offer Summer Camp for Tomorrow's Engineers
    5/31/12
    Where can future engineers go to build robots, learn about engineering disasters and test toy buildings on a life-sized earthquake shake table? Beginning this July, they can go to the University at Buffalo, thanks to a generous gift from National Grid.
  • First Female Native American Earns PhD in Engineering at UB
    5/29/12
    Seeing the Rocky Mountains usually tops the list of things to do when visiting Colorado. Not for Shannon Seneca, who vacationed there after graduating high school 15 years ago. Upon landing in Denver, she headed straight for the Rocky Flats Plant, a former nuclear weapons production facility.
  • Central Library Exhibition of Proposed Medical School Designs Calls for Public Input
    5/23/12
    The Central Branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library will host an exhibition of work by four elite international architectural teams produced for the competition to design the new downtown University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Three UB Students Win Prestigious Fulbright Awards
    5/21/12
    Three University at Buffalo students have received prestigious Fulbright Fellowships, the most recent class in what has become a UB tradition of multiple winners in the highly competitive, nationally-recognized scholarly competition.
  • UB Accounting Students Chosen for Prestigious Internships
    5/14/12
    For a new accounting graduate, an internship with the Financial Accounting Standards Board or the Governmental Accounting Standards Board is the business school equivalent of clerking for a Supreme Court justice. And that's just what two graduate students from the University at Buffalo School of Management have accomplished.
  • UB Dedicates New $75 Million School of Engineering Building on North Campus
    5/10/12
    The University at Buffalo today officially opened its new $75 million, environmentally friendly School of Engineering and Applied Sciences research facility. Located on UB's North Campus, Barbara and Jack Davis Hall is named in honor of the Western New York couple in recognition of their lifetime philanthropic contributions to the university.
  • UB to Announce New Director of Athletics
    5/7/12
    The University at Buffalo will hold a news conference announcing the hiring of a new director of athletics.