College Stories

The prestigious award will allow both Anna Givens and Fiona Serrano to travel to Latvia to study Russian.

UB chemist David Heppner published the first 3D model of lazertinib, a chemo-free drug the FDA has approved to be used in a combo therapy.

The Cathleen Wendel Lista Dance Showcase also celebrates the life of the beloved UB alumna and dance instructor.

Nicholas Pratt and Nicholas Reilly are UB’s latest recipients of the country’s most respected scholarship for undergraduate STEM students.

Alexandra Sesenton has assumed the role of concert manager in the Department of Music, with a goal of expanding the reach of UB's music programming.

The Grammy-winning composition from music professor Jeffrey Scott, the latest guest on the Driven to Discover podcast, will come alive on April 25.

The space is designed to increase Indigenous faculty and student retention and success, and foster community-building at UB and beyond.

UB photographer Meredith Forrest Kulwicki joined a class on a recent trip to the Everglades to document what was for many students a memorable and "otherworldly" trip.

This milestone CFA season includes Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, The Princess Bride's Cary Elwes and more.

Once thought to be from a bear, a 3,000-year-old bone fragment shares a genetic connection with modern Alaskan Natives.

The guide includes chapters on edible and medicinal plants, critters, mental health and zero waste on campus.

The Phi Beta Kappa program will provide UB recipient Laibah Mir with a scholarship and assistance in pursuing a public sector career.

The first event in the Gender Institute's book launch series explores the history of the world’s largest center for spiritualism. 

The hands-on program brings students from a variety of disciplines together to address pressing social issues in the community — and do something to help.

Holly E. Hughes, MA ’02, helps manage one of the world’s premier collections of 20th century modern art at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Twenty-two employees have been recognized for consistently superior professional achievement and the ongoing pursuit of excellence.

The team works with faculty to plan, design, fabricate and repair the precision devices needed to conduct their work.

A film class sparked biology major Jessica Fisher's new journey that includes recognition at last year's Buffalo International Film Festival.

As commissioner of education in Enugu State, the UB history professor aims to reform the schools through experiential learning models.

UB expert Mark Frank explains how to detect deception — and yes, the eyes can lie.

The new chair of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies says her field studies topics that impact us every day.

The connection to nature is “its own science,” says UB physics major and NASA intern Alyssa Warrior.

The Morris Janowitz award recognizes senior scholars whose careers have demonstrated excellence in the field of military sociology.

Faculty member Nichol Castro is being recognized for her work focusing on word retrieval in aging adults and adults with language impairments.

Luis R. De Jesús Báez is UB’s first recipient of the Non-Tenure Faculty Award that aims to encourage the pursuit of new ideas among tenure-track faculty.

The program brings together MSW, MBA and CAS graduate students to devise solutions to challenges facing WNY community organizations.

UB’s annual program helps local middle and high school teachers bring new tools and techniques to their classrooms.

A new UB-led study solves the mystery of insulator-to-metal transition.

UB geology student James Hanna's discovery extends the fossil record of an extinct ancestor of starfish by 25 million years.

Students from the Department of Environment and Sustainability spent several nights hunting for salamanders in the North Campus woods.

UB faculty member Jonathan Golove talks about his new role and plans for the festival as he takes the reins from longtime leader David Felder.

After leaving UB in 1999 just shy of getting her degree, Esmedelin Sippel re-enrolled in 2022 and will graduate with pride this weekend. 

A member of the UB faculty since 2010, Rao is the recipient of an honor that is considered the Nobel Prize for the field of statistics.

Lea Kyle and Sydney Swedick are recipients of the most prestigious research scholarship offered for undergrad STEM students.

UB senior Kara Skrubis, who lost her leg to pediatric bone cancer, works with a nonprofit dedicated to "making it better" for those affected by the disease. 

The Center for the Arts is providing student workers with valuable career experience through the Here to Career program. 

After struggling his first semester, the UB senior has become a university success story.

Diana S. Aga, Jochen Autschbach, Paul Vanouse and Igor Žutić were appointed to SUNY's highest rank by the Board of Trustees. 

MFA student and UB Arts Collaboratory artist-in-residence Taylor Robers channels inspiration from ecosystems into art.