Alumni

Tim Lafferty of East Aurora, N.Y., has been elected to serve a two-year term as president of the UB Alumni Association.

The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will celebrate a century and a quarter of research, teaching and learning as part of "125 Years of Discovery, Change and Progression," a series of educational and social events to be held Sept. 14-18.

Four new studies by researchers at the University at Buffalo have found that when a woman's goal is to be romantically desirable, she distances herself from academic majors and activities related to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi, PhD, applauded Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signing of legislation to implement the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program today, citing the bill's potential to transform public higher education in the state and enable UB and other SUNY institutions to increase their impact on the state's economy.

American courts are significantly expanding the legal rights and privileges celebrities can command over others using their names or likenesses. And a University at Buffalo Law School professor is questioning whether these courts have gone too far.

Many of the lights in the night sky are not stars, but actually man-made satellites, and those satellites could soon be joined by one built by University at Buffalo students. A team of students from UB has been chosen to participate in the United States Air Force-sponsored University Nano-satellite Program. .

University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi has been named a regional co-chair of the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, one of 10 region-based councils charged with allocating economic development funds within their regions to stimulate economic development and speed the creation of jobs.

Mark Frank has spent two decades studying the faces of people lying when in high-stakes situations and has good news for security experts. "Executing Facial Control During Deception Situations," a new study he co-authored with former graduate student Carolyn M. Hurley, PhD, reports that although liars can reduce facial actions when under scrutiny, they can't suppress them all.

Brittani Franklin attends Xavier University in New Orleans; Donteeno Todd attends Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss.; and Caitlin Nicholson attends Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. But all are spending the summer at the University at Buffalo, along with a dozen other undergraduate students from as far away as Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and as close as Buffalo.

A new cadre of leaders is at the helm in departments throughout the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Of the 26 academic departments in the UB medical school, nearly half of them are either being led by new chairs or are actively engaged in a search for one.