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UB Law to dedicate conference center
Two well-known names in the Buffalo legal community will find a permanent home in the UB Law School when the school’s Cellino and Barnes Conference Center is dedicated on May 26.
The naming of the Law School’s fifth-floor conference center honors Ross M. Cellino Jr., ’82, and Stephen E. Barnes, ’83. Their $1 million gift in 2009, one of the largest cash gifts UB Law has received, is being invested in student scholarships, teaching technologies and improved student services.
The conference center, one of the most elegant and widely used facilities in John Lord O’Brian Hall on the North Campus, hosts a wide variety of academic and legal conferences, seminars and continuing legal education courses. The May 26 dedication ceremony, which begins at 5:30 p.m., will feature remarks by, among others, Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua and the honorees.
The UB Council, in its conference center naming proclamation, described Cellino and Barnes, shareholders in the Buffalo-based law firm Cellino & Barnes P.C., as “highly accomplished, successful, civic-minded attorneys who have been good friends and dedicated alumni of UB Law School.”
Ross Cellino is serving a three-year term as a UB Law School Alumni Association director and actively participates in the school’s mentoring program. Steve Barnes, a former Marine Corps officer and Gulf War veteran, serves regularly as a judge for moot court competitions and for the oral arguments program for first-year students.
“We made this gift because we are impressed with Dean Mutua and his vision for the school. It’s easy to be loyal to UB Law because it was good to us,” the partners said.
“The dean has a real vision for the school and the wherewithal to make it happen,” says Barnes. “The thing that drove our final decision was his vision to propel UB Law School into a different category.”
Said Mutua, who has set a goal of placing UB Law among the top 50 law schools in the nation: “This amazing act of philanthropy by Ross and Steve reflects a belief by two successful alumni that the Law School is headed in the right direction. It provides a wonderful resource to help us accomplish our vision of academic excellence and our bold aspirations for the future.”
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Enter your garden in Capen Garden Walk
UB employees who live around the South Campus are invited to enter their gardens in the 10th annual Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk, to be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 16 in the University Heights, Buffalo, Eggertsville and Amherst neighborhoods.
The walk, a free, self-guided tour of more than 60 private gardens and carefully nurtured public spaces, is designed to encourage neighborhood beautification and build community among neighbors.
Gardens can be entered online until June 15. For more information, visit the Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk website.
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Gallery presents ‘Rediscovering Identities’
“Rediscovering Identities,” an exhibition representing a semester of research conducted by UB students enrolled in a course on museum management, is on view through Aug. 7 in the second floor of the UB Anderson Gallery.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
“Rediscovering Identities” showcases how research into the function, cultural origin and provenance of such objects as a Native American ceramic vessel, an Egyptian religious idol and an Inuit ritual mask invites rediscovery of the role these artifacts play in creating cultural identities.
The exhibition consists of seven objects selected from the Cravens Collection, a collection of 1,100 archaeological and ethnographic objects from around the world—some dating as far back as 4,500 BC—donated by philanthropist Annette Cravens.
“Rediscovering Identities” features a cross-cultural display case, as well as three-dimensional scans of the objects, which allows them to be viewed with precision from all angles.
The UB Anderson Gallery, located at One Martha Jackson Place near Englewood and Kenmore avenues, is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday.
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CEL receives $55,800 grant
The School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) has received a grant of $55,800 from the Allstate Foundation for its Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs program.
The program, a joint venture by the CEL and UB’s Center for Urban Studies, is designed to help minority and women entrepreneurs move their companies to the next stage of development.
The Allstate Foundation, a charitable organization funded by subsidiaries of Allstate Insurance Corp., provides philanthropic grants to nonprofit organizations whose programs fit within specified criteria for community development, tolerance, inclusion, diversity and economic empowerment. It has helped fund the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs program since 2005.
“We are very grateful for the Allstate Foundation’s continuing support of the Allstate Women and Minority Emerging Entrepreneurs program,” says Thomas Ulbrich, executive director of the CEL. “This program not only benefits individual entrepreneurs, but it also helps to create viable and sustainable businesses in Western New York, strengthening the economy of our region.”
More than 150 individuals have graduated from the program in the past seven years.
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