Student Life

News about the student experience at UB. (see all topics)

  • UB to Offer First SUNY Doctorate in Physical Therapy
    12/1/00
    The University at Buffalo in 2001 will join an elite group of universities in the United States that offer a doctorate in physical therapy (DPT). The UB doctoral program will be the first within the State University of New York system.
  • Institute Releases First State of the Region Progress Report
    11/29/00
    The Buffalo-Niagara region has experienced definite, if incremental, progress over the last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth.
  • UB Signs Contract with Microsoft to Provide Software to More than 29,000 Students, Faculty and Staff
    10/24/00
    An agreement between the University at Buffalo and Microsoft will put into the hands of every one of UB's students and faculty and staff members the newest, most popular Microsoft software on the market while saving the university more than a quarter of a million dollars per year.
  • Freshmen Get Oriented by Piecing Together a Giant Puzzle-Map of North Campus
    8/25/00
    The University at Buffalo rolled out a giant "welcome map" today to help members of this year's incoming freshman class and transfer students solve the puzzle of how to get around UB’s 1,192-acre North Campus, where classroom buildings, residence halls and parking lots are interspersed with meadows, lakes, and woodlands.
  • UB Breaks Ground for Housing Complex, Fourth Housing Project in Long-Term Plan
    8/10/00
    The University at Buffalo broke ground this week for Gateway Village, the fourth residential project for university students to be built in recent years as part of a long-term plan to provide housing for students and improve their quality of life. Gateway Village will be located on both sides of Flint Road at Augspurger Road near the old UB stadium on the North (Amherst) Campus. It will house a mix of 540 undergraduate, graduate and professional students in one-, two- and four-bedroom units. Being built at an estimated cost of $22 million, it is scheduled to open in August 2001.
  • Bruce Lee and Asian Pop Cinema Put Recent UB Grad on the Road to a Rare Fulbright Scholarship
    8/8/00
    Thanks in part to the inspiration of actor and martial-arts superstar Bruce Lee, Nicholas Logue, a May graduate of the University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance, is one of only two graduating seniors or master's degree candidates in the U.S. to receive a 2000-2001 Fulbright fellowship to study and teach in China.
  • UB Technology Improves Distance Learning in Caribbean
    6/29/00
    After years of limited access on the part of students, higher education in the Caribbean received a major boost this summer when the University at Buffalo put the region's first distance-learning WebBoard online at the University of the West Indies (UWI).
  • UB Initiative To Provide Unique Experiences For Students, Research Services To WNY Companies And Not-For-Profits
    5/18/00
    Deborah K. W. Walters, Ph.D., and Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been awarded a $150,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to develop a community-linked interdisciplinary research (CLIR) program for undergraduate students at UB.
  • New Gift From Anonymous Donor, Expanded Support For UB Distinguished Honors Scholars Program
    5/11/00
    The University at Buffalo's Distinguished Honors Scholars Program will graduate its largest group of honors scholars -- 23 -- this month, thanks to an anonymous donor whose scholarship gifts are setting a precedent.
  • Delaware North’s CEO Donates To UB
    5/11/00
    Jeremy M. Jacobs, Sr., chairman and CEO of Delaware North Companies, Inc. -- a $1 billion-plus diversified international holding company owned by Jacobs -- continues his long-standing commitment to the University at Buffalo with an annual $100,000 gift.