Alumni

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  • Madoff Ponzi Scheme: Uh-Oh! Nobody Cooled the Marks Out
    2/24/11
    Most Ponzi schemes, like almost everything else these days, enjoy a limited life in the public eye. Despite its explosive nature, the same would have been true of the Madoff con, except that nobody cooled Bernie's marks out.
  • Career Fairs Go Global, Virtual, Supporting UB's International Focus and Bringing Recruitment to the Cutting Edge
    2/16/11
    A pair of engineering career fairs in March will mark important milestones for the University at Buffalo: Both events have a global focus, a first for UB career fairs, and one will take place completely online -- another first.
  • UB School of Management Alumni Association Names New Officers, Directors
    2/11/11
    Officers for the 2011 term have been elected for the University at Buffalo School of Management Alumni Association, in addition to two new directors elected to three-year terms.
  • Bruce A. Holm, UB Senior Vice Provost and Co-Developer of Life-Saving Drug for Infants, Dies at Age 52
    2/10/11
    Bruce A. Holm, PhD, a key figure in the University at Buffalo's efforts to develop high-technology and life-sciences research in the region, and an internationally known biomedical researcher and successful entrepreneur, died on Feb. 9 of kidney cancer. A resident of Rochester, he was 52.
  • UB Alumni Association to Present Seven Scholarships
    1/27/11
    A total of $6,500 in scholarship money will be awarded to seven University at Buffalo students at the UB Alumni Association dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 4, in the Center for the Arts atrium on the North Campus.
  • Making ADHD Teens Better Drivers
    1/24/11
    A University at Buffalo researcher's work with a state-of-the-art driving simulator is making better drivers among those considered to be the most risky motorists on the road: teens with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).
  • UB, Clarence Partner to Improve Municipal Services, Provide Internships for Students
    1/20/11
    The University at Buffalo and Town of Clarence are partnering on two initiatives to improve municipal services and give students an opportunity to learn about and contribute to local government.
  • Virginia Seitz '85 nominated to head Office of Legal Counsel
    1/19/11
    President Obama has nominated a 1985 graduate of UB Law School to head the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, a high-profile and highly sensitive position that in recent years has been a flashpoint for partisan political division.
  • UB's Govindaraju Is Elected a AAAS Fellow
    1/14/11
    Venu Govindaraju, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
  • Haitian Native, an Earthquake Engineering Student, Puts Training to Good Use in Home Country
    1/11/11
    Like most doctoral candidates, University at Buffalo student and Haitian native Pierre Fouche is a study in focus and determination and, if anything, the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that struck his home country only intensified these traits.