Student Life

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  • UB Libraries Offer Leisure Reading Collections in Japanese, Chinese, Korean
    4/15/10
    Lockwood Memorial Library at the University at Buffalo now has international collections of popular fiction and non-fiction books in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese -- three languages spoken by large and growing segments of the UB community.
  • UB Law School Students Propose Renewable Energy Solutions for Haiti
    4/13/10
    University at Buffalo Law School students will suggest ways renewable energy resources can reshape Haiti's future in a free, public forum 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 14 at the Cellino and Barnes Conference Center, 509 John Lord O'Brian Hall, on UB's North Campus.
  • UB Student Groups Host Major Environmental Conference
    4/13/10
    Student environmental activists from Western and Central New York are getting ready to teach, learn and discuss New York State's environmental future at Power Shift New York 2010 on the University at Buffalo North Campus on April 16-18.
  • UB Professor's Online Study Guide Makes a Great Gift That Keeps On Giving
    12/17/09
    Parents looking for a meaningful gift to give their high school senior should check out an online study guide by a University at Buffalo professor who first created it as a going-away-to-college guide for his stepdaughter.
  • Solar Energy to Power Student Apartments
    5/7/09
    In its effort to promote renewable energy technologies throughout New York State and in response to Governor Paterson's call to expand New York's renewable energy portfolio, the New York Power Authority today joined with the University at Buffalo to announce a $7.5 million award to the university to construct a 1.1 megawatt solar energy array on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB's Incoming Law School Class Among the Best Ever
    9/4/08
    The University at Buffalo Law School this semester welcomes one of its most accomplished and selective classes in its 120-year history, a group of students Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua called a "breakthrough" for UB Law and the foundation on which to make UB one of the finest law schools in the country.
  • UB's Large International Student Population an Economic, Cultural, Educational Boon
    8/26/08
    More than 15 percent of University at Buffalo students come from outside the United States -- 4,300-plus last year and about the same number expected for the new academic year, which began yesterday. It is a population UB is working hard to increase.
  • Info Site Juiced Up for UB's International Students
    8/21/08
    The 4,000-plus international students who begin classes this semester at the University at Buffalo will find enhanced resources on the UB Libraries' Web site suggested by their peers and developed by the libraries especially for them.
  • UB to Expand Its Social Work Internship Program
    8/18/08
    The University at Buffalo School of Social Work this fall will expand a multi-year prestigious national grant program designed to transform how graduate social work students learn how to serve older adults.
  • UB Students Raise Their 41st Buffalo Home for Habitat for Humanity
    6/9/08
    University at Buffalo undergraduate Mindy Underhill straddles a ceiling beam, checking the joists in a home going up on Buffalo's East Side. Underhill, a junior speech and hearing science major from Marilla, N.Y., is one of a team of young women working on what they call "the girls' house." It is one of four new homes being built this year by Habitat for Humanity with major assistance from 36 UB students, and it is the 41st such house since 1990.