Student Life

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

  • After 30 Years, Gentile Remains Passionate About Teaching
    9/23/99
    Although he's been in the business for 30 years, Ronald J. Gentile still can recall an experience in class during the 1970s that changed his philosophy about teaching.
  • UB Professor Says Making “Connection” Is Key In Preventing Youth Suicide
    9/23/99
    Thomas T. Frantz has spent 25 years dealing with people affected by suicide, death, dying and grief, and has witnessed first-hand the pain that leads up to and lingers after a tragedy. That pain can be deadly for teen-agers, he says, and urges parents, teachers and friends to do their part in preventing youth suicide by making a connection with the troubled youth.
  • “Culture Jammers” Bring Socio/Economic Protest To UB
    9/17/99
    It's been more than 30 years since their predecessors threw verbal grenades at the military-industrial complex, and decades since environmentalists began wrapping themselves around endangered trees and laying down in front of bulldozers.
  • UB Retools, Expands Teacher Education Program
    9/14/99
    The Graduate School of Education (GSE) at the University at Buffalo consistently rated as among the top education schools in the country, has dramatically reorganized and enlarged its program leading to New York State teacher certification in response to rapid changes in the field of teacher education and an expected increase in demand for new teachers.
  • UB Offers Advanced Honors Program For Juniors And Seniors
    8/27/99
    An Advanced Honors Program designed to draw new students into the honors category, as well as better serve current honors students in their junior and senior years, will begin this fall at the University at Buffalo, administrators with the University Honors Program have announced.
  • UB Investigates How Technology Can Enhance Learning And Lower Instructional Costs
    8/27/99
    The University at Buffalo this fall will begin a two-year project to design and pilot a course in information technology that is expected to enhance the quality of teaching and increase learning while reducing instructional costs by 46 percent.
  • Former President Bush To Speak At UB On Sept. 29
    8/27/99
    Former U.S. President George Bush will kick off the University at Buffalo's 12th Annual Distinguished Speaker Series at 8 p.m. Sept. 29 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Opens First New Housing On Campus In 25 Years
    8/17/99
    Hadley Village, the first new student housing built on the University at Buffalo campus in 25 years and the university's first apartment-style housing for undergraduates, opened today (Aug. 17, 1999) with a ceremony at the complex on the North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Breaks Ground For Housing Complex
    8/10/99
    The University at Buffalo last week broke ground for South Lake Village, the third residential complex for UB 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.
  • UB Architecture Grads Hired By City of Buffalo to Pursue Plans for New District Downtown
    7/21/99
    Three 1999 graduates of the UB School of Architecture and Planning are turning heads in Buffalo City Hall with their resourceful building designs and progressive plans to create a new district in an underutilized area of South Buffalo.