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  • UB's 2012 True Blue Days Kicks Homecoming Weekend into a Higher Zone
    10/12/12
    Picture Western New York's biggest collegiate party of the year. Imagine a mini-carnival. A semi-menacing bonfire. Emotional and joyful reunions of long-lost friends. The pomp and energy of big-time intercollegiate sports. A nightlife of comedy and jazz. Unique food and special events, such as a wing-eating contest, family brunch, a car smash and window paintings. The hundreds of Â鶹´«Ã½o people working hard to make the pieces of the Oct. 19-21 weekend come together call it True Blue Days.
  • UB Symposium: The Changing Landscape of Architectural Patronage
    10/10/12
    Once the exclusive purview of private clients and the fabulously wealthy, architectural patronage is changing as architects increasingly cultivate partnerships with nonprofits, community organizations and other public entities.
  • Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Celebrates Global Entrepreneurship Week
    10/4/12
    Aspiring entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to network, listen and learn as the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) in the Â鶹´«Ã½o School of Management celebrates Global Entrepreneurship Week, Nov. 12-18.
  • UB Ranked One of the World's Best Universities by Times Higher Education
    10/3/12
    Times Higher Education has named the Â鶹´«Ã½o as one of the world's top 200 universities. UB is ranked 198th in the 2012-13 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, up from last year's ranking among the top 201 to 225 universities worldwide. The assessment uses 13 performance indicators to analyze how well a university is doing in core missions including teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
  • Professor to Launch Dental Clinic in Turkey to Treat Syrian Refugees
    10/2/12
    "We have friends in Syria who were visited by police because their son had attended a rally. When they told the police that their son wasn't home, the police proceeded to shoot the three children who were there, in front of their mother, as a warning. One of those children was three years old." This is just one of the many stories about conditions in Syria told by UB's Othman Shibly.
  • Marching Band, Torrent of Illuminated Cupcakes Invade the Hotel Lafayette to Celebrate UB Law School's 125th Anniversary
    9/27/12
    The UB Marching Band will parade through the Hotel Lafayette lobby playing the UB fight song Friday night as the Â鶹´«Ã½o Law School kicks off its 125th anniversary celebration with a 650-piece rolling blue-and-white cupcake display topped by giant sparklers.
  • Flu Season Has Begun, but Most College Students Ignore the Vaccine
    9/27/12
    Influenza spreads like wildfire on college campuses because of high-density living conditions. Its symptoms -- weakness, muscle pain, vomiting and diarrhea are unpleasant but usually not serious, although many people get very sick and thousands die every year in the U.S. from complications of the flu.
  • New Finance Track Prepares Wall Street "Rock Stars'
    9/26/12
    The Â鶹´«Ã½o School of Management is offering a new concentration that can help students land jobs as quantitative analysts -- or "quants" -- the latest variety of Wall Street rock stars.
  • UB Anthropologist to be Named Honorary Chief of Nigerian Town
    9/24/12
    Along the quiet corridors of the Â鶹´«Ã½o Department of Anthropology labors a man who, unknown to his colleagues, has been a hero to the Igbomina Yoruba town of Esie (ess-ee-YEH) in southwest Nigeria for nearly five decades.
  • Professor's Book Reveals the "Silent Epidemic" of Health Hazards Caused by Coal
    9/21/12
    Coal kills. That's the message of "The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health" by Alan H. Lockwood, MD, Â鶹´«Ã½o emeritus professor of neurology.