The 2011 Scholarship Gala raised $157,000 for University at Buffalo student scholarships, thanks to the more than 360 UB alumni, faculty, staff, friends, and business and community leaders who attended the November event.
University at Buffalo career counselor Holly Justice is hosting a workshop Nov. 10 to help student veterans translate their military experience into resumes that will catch the attention of civilian companies. While veterans completing enlistments come home with valuable skills, finding work can be difficult if employers don't understand how responsibilities in Iraq and Afghanistan apply to civilian jobs, Justice says.
In a recent study conducted by scientists at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions involving 154 heavy-drinking college students whose sexual behavior put them at risk for HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), there were two expected findings and one surprise.
Like most people who don't personally know someone who needs a transplant, University at Buffalo student Alex Teschemacher hadn't considered becoming a bone marrow donor. But in the fall of 2009, while walking through the UB Student Union, he and a friend came upon a National Marrow Donor Program recruitment drive sponsored by the UB Prehealth Advising office. On the spur of the moment, they decided to register.
There's never been a dull University at Buffalo moment for Kourtney Brown. Standing 6-feet-tall, Brown is a star athlete on the women's basketball team, as her recent record-breaking 35-point scoring night against Miami of Ohio shows.
Computer science might not be the obvious major for students looking to change the world. But two teams of University at Buffalo students are proving that programming can translate into compassion.
To attract and retain the most intellectually gifted students, the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the UB Honors College have announced the Presidential Scholarship/Doctoral Fellowship, which will provide full scholarships for qualified UB engineering students from freshman year through completion of their doctoral degrees.
"Doorhanger" kits containing safety reminders and tips on how to be a good neighbor will be distributed to more than 2,700 homes surrounding the University at Buffalo's South Campus from 3-6 p.m. today (Tuesday, Aug. 24).
A team of University at Buffalo students, all members of the UB student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to spend a week in Houston in June at NASA's Johnson Space Center to test an experiment the students had designed in simulated weightlessness.
A quarter-acre vegetable garden is taking shape at the University at Buffalo, pioneered by a group of medical students who are putting into practice one of the axioms of the modern Hippocratic Oath: "I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure."
