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  • Recognition for Gill, Bulls

    The UB football team and head coach Turner Gill will receive some public recognition for their championship season during two public appearances Friday night.

    Gill and special guests will be at the New Era flagship store at 160 Delaware Ave., Buffalo from 5-7 p.m. to meet fans and sign autographs. Shortly after 5 p.m., Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is expected to stop by the store and extend his personal congratulations to Gill for the Bulls' MAC Championship and the team's first-ever trip to a bowl game.

    The event will be broadcast live on UB's flagship station, WECK-AM 1230, with Brad Riter doing a live remote from the location.

    Sets of International Bowl tickets will be raffled off throughout the night.

    New Era, makers of the Turner Gill "Sideline Collection," will be selling UB’s MAC Championship and International Bowl hats for the first time on Friday.

    Later that night, Gill and players Drew Willy, Mike Newton, James Starks and Naaman Roosevelt will be honored at the Buffalo Sabres game against the Los Angeles Kings. They will be recognized at HSBC Arena during the game—face off is at 7:30 p.m.—or their accomplishments this season.

    The Bulls, 8-5 and winners of the MAC East Division and MAC Championship—by virtue of a 42-24 win over previously unbeaten and 12th-ranked Ball State—will play Connecticut in the International Bowl in Toronto's Rogers Centre on Jan. 3. Kickoff is at noon. Tickets can be purchased by clicking here or by calling 1-877-UB-THERE.

  • Russian physicians visit UB

    David L. Dunn, vice president for health sciences, hosted a luncheon yesterday on the South Campus for a group of Russian physicians visiting Buffalo as part of a trip to the United States.

    The physicians from Tver are visiting the U.S. as part of the congressionally sponsored Open World Program, which is designed to enhance understanding and capabilities between the U.S. and the countries of Eurasia.

    The group’s Buffalo visit is being hosted by Sean Shinners, president of Buffalo-Tver Sister Cities, who is working to establish a Russian-American medical center in Tver with Greg Ciottone, chair of the Disaster Medicine Section at Harvard Medical School and chief medical officer of American Hospital Management.

    In addition to Dunn, UB representatives who attended the luncheon included the deans of UB’s health sciences schools, Stephen Dunnett and John Wood from the Office of International Education and Bruce Holm, senior vice provost and executive director of UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.

  • Time is now to change health insurance

    The Option Transfer Period for state employees, the annual period during which workers can change their health insurance coverage carrier, voluntarily cancel their coverage or delete dependents, has begun and will run through Jan. 5, 2009.

    The effective date of change will be Dec. 25, 2008.

    The change form must be completed and returned to University Human Resources no later than Jan. 5.

    For more information, a comparison of health insurance carriers, rates and change forms, click here.