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  • New Bus Line to Serve UB
    3/24/05
    Campus Parking & Transportation Services has entered into a new bus agreement with Cognisa, a national transportation-and-security company, to provide exclusive bus transportation services to the UB campus, beginning May 16.
  • Course Based on TV's "The Apprentice" Challenges Students with Real-Life Marketing Projects
    2/23/05
    The premise: Teams of budding young entrepreneurs pit their skills and savvy against one another in an attempt to win praise and reward from an accomplished marketing pro. Sound familiar? No, it's not the latest episode of Donald Trump's hit reality-TV show "The Apprentice." It's a new three-credit course, called "The Marketers," modeled after the TV show and offered this semester at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Students on 2005 Fulbright Grants Are Teaching, Conducting Research in Canada, Europe, Asia
    2/16/05
    Two graduate students and a graduating senior at the University at Buffalo received teaching assistantships for 2005 from the J. William Fulbright Foundation Student Program and are teaching English and American culture in universities, high schools and junior high schools in Europe and Asia.
  • Exhibit of UB Students' "Architectural Scrapbooks" on Display in Dyett Gallery
    1/25/05
    "Corners," an exhibit showcasing "architectural scrapbooks" constructed by first-year students in the Department of Architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, is on display in the Dyett Gallery in Hayes Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.
  • UB Architecture Students Take Top Honors Among 230 Design Teams in Major International Competition
    11/4/04
    A team of three graduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has been selected from among 230 international design teams as one of three first-place winners in an important international design competition.
  • The UB Department of Theatre and Dance and the Center for the Arts to present "Steel Pier"
    11/3/04
    The Center for the Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present "Steel Pier," Nov. 18-21 and Dec. 2-5 in the Drama Theatre, located at in the Center for the Arts on the UB, North (Amherst) Campus. Media sponsor is WBFO 88.7 FM.
  • The UB Department of Theatre and Dance and the Center for the Arts to present "Spinning Into Butter"
    9/30/04
    The Center for the Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present "Spinning Into Butter," October Oct. 14-17 and 21-24 in the Black Box Theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Undergraduate Is First UB Recipient of UUP's Eugene Link Scholarship
    8/9/04
    Paul Zarembka, Ph.D., professor of economics at the University at Buffalo, says his former student, Daniel Cross of Hamburg, "is an outstanding student and a human being committed to economic justice, and this award is richly deserved." Cross is the first UB recipient of the annual Eugene P. Link Scholarship presented by United University Professions (UUP), the SUNY-wide faculty/staff labor union.
  • In Buffalo, a "Children's Geography" Reveals How Significantly Kids Impact Their Inner-City Neighborhoods
    8/9/04
    For many school-age kids, geography consists mostly of maps of faraway places and the capitals of the 50 states. But some inner-city Buffalo children have been studying geography much closer to home and University at Buffalo researchers are paying attention.
  • Researchers to Study Alcohol-Related Victimization of Women During Their Four-Year College Experience
    7/22/04
    In conjunction with the arrival of a new crop of freshmen on college campuses across the U.S., researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions will begin a study of the alcohol-related victimization experienced by female college students.