Alumni

News for UB’s valued alumni/ae. (see all topics)

  • English Department Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Alumni Reunion April 13-14
    3/30/12
    They're coming and there are a lot of them: lawyers, journalists, businessmen and -women, professors, poets, playwrights, teachers, literary scholars, moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas -- all of them among the more than 20,000 students who have graduated from the University at Buffalo's stellar Department of English with a BA, MA or PhD since UB was incorporated into the State University of New York in 1962.
  • After 32 Years, Buffalo Authors Revisit the Tragic World of Death Row
    3/28/12
    Bruce Jackson is known in some circles as the dean of prison culture. Since the early 1960s he has been studying the little-known lives and culture of inmates in one of America's oldest penal institutions, the O.B. Ellis Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison in the Walker County, Texas.
  • UB to Receive State Designation and Start-up Funding to Establish a Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics
    3/27/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Western New York legislative delegation informed University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi today that UB will receive a state designation for a Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics, and will be awarded $200,000 in seed funding toward the establishment of the center.
  • Native Students Use Wolf-Fire Scholarship to Improve Community
    3/26/12
    When he was eight years old, Beynan Ransom protested with his parents at a General Motors plant that discharged waste into the St. Lawrence River near the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Territory, three hours from Syracuse. More than 10 years later, Ransom is still working to improve the Native American community across New York by working with the Onondaga Nation, this time on the removal of the Onondaga Creek dam.
  • Can a Machine Tell When You're Lying? Research Suggests the Answer is 'Yes'
    3/26/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for clues that someone is telling a high-stakes lie, UB computer scientists are exploring whether machines can also read the visual cues that give away deceit.
  • Buzzers Ready! UB Trivia Players Head to Chicago for National Tournament
    3/22/12
    A team of four University at Buffalo trivia players will head to Chicago March 30 to take on other college teams in a national, invitation-only quiz bowl. Hands clenching buzzers, they'll field questions on topics including music, literature, mythology, philosophy, geography, astronomy, quantum mechanics and more.
  • Duel in the Pool: Lance Armstrong's Visit to UB Will Help Teens Living with Cancer
    3/21/12
    The University at Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Melissa's Living Legacy Teen Cancer Foundation will sponsor a "Duel in the Pool" competition at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in UB's Alumni Arena Natatorium to raise funds for Teens Living with Cancer in Rochester and Buffalo.
  • 14 to be honored by UB Alumni Association
    3/20/12
    The University at Buffalo Alumni Association will honor an entrepreneur and a former Buffalo Bill and NFL Hall of Famer during the UB Alumni Association Achievement Awards ceremony to be held at 6 p.m. April 13 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the UB North Campus.
  • Parents of Children with Cancer Distrust and Fear Online Sources of Health Information, Study Shows
    3/19/12
    Parents and adult caregivers of pediatric cancer patients prefer personal consultations with trusted health care providers over online sources for information about their child's illness, according to a University at Buffalo research study.
  • UB Proposes Creation of a State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics
    3/15/12
    University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi travelled to Albany Tuesday to present members of the New York State Legislature and the governor's office with a proposal to designate a state Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics at the university.