GARDEN WALK. (From left) Phyllis Lobbins, a research technician in the Department of Medicine, and Al and Anne Szarejko of Cheektowaga exchange gardening tips with Danny Wiktorowski, whose University Avenue garden was featured in the sixth annual Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk. The Garden Walk, held on Saturday, was co-sponsored by the UB Office of Community Relations, the Eggertsville Community Organization, Gloria J. Parks Community Center and Snyder Ridge Landscaping and Garden Center. (Photo: Nancy J. Parisi)
UB awards master planning contract.
The effort to grow UB and dramatically transform its three campuses has taken a major step forward with the awarding of a master-planning contract to a team of internationally renowned architectural, planning, landscape and design firms. » Full Story
New HR Web site now online
The university has developed a new Web site for its human resources functions that is designed to reflect the new strategy, goals and structure of University Human Resources, as well as provide easier access to HR information for faculty and staff. » Full Story
Eldayrie named CIO. Elias G. Eldayrie, associate vice president for information technology, has been named UB's chief information officer.
Examining religious beliefs of scientists. A study by a UB sociologist has found that science professors at top universities are less religious than the general population, but attributes this to a number of variables that have little to do with their study of science.
Morning sickness linked to lower breast cancer risk. Women who suffer through morning sickness during their pregnancies may have a 30 percent lower risk of developing breast cancer, UB epidemiologists have found.
Six teams receive IRDF funding. Six research teams have been awarded seed funding in the May funding cycle of the UB 2020 Interdisciplinary Research Development Fund.
Physicists join to stem ‘outsourcing.’ Theoretical physicists who say "outsourcing" has allowed the U.S. to lag behind in this area of high-profile, global science have formed a consortium whose goal is to train more U.S. graduate students in the field.
Europeans' love affair with JFK. UB historian Andreas Daum talked about U.S. popularity in Europe during the early 1960s and the circumstances that caused it to decline later into the Cold War and the present during yesterday's UBThisSummer lecture.