College Stories

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. 

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 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.

Oxford Pennant co-founders Dave Horesh and Brett Mikoll set out to change the industry—and the Western New York Community.

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.

Alexis Harrell will explore how various forms of narrative shape Black experiences at the University of Edinburgh.

Nicholas Cucciniello will use the award to do thesis-related work at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

UB students taking EVS 301 and EVS 302 receive hands-on training in the skills needed to survive in the remote outdoors.

A UB student was on the team that developed the winning approach to help a local nonprofit refresh its brand.

A.J. Franklin, aka Boombox Guy, has become somewhat of a celebrity around UB.

Melissa White talks with UBNow about what sparked her interest in the violin, how her teachers contine to inspire her and her impressions of UB as a new faculty member.

In a Q&A with UBNow, the new director of the Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program talks with UBNow about his new position at the university.

The UB theoretical chemist is a leading expert in computational materials chemistry.

UB alumnus Shep Gordon returned to campus with rocker Alice Cooper to talk about their 50 years of friendship, partnership and adventures.

Performers for the Department of Music concerts include new UB faculty member Stephen Guerra and the Slee Sinfonietta.

Dejan Stojkovic says a wormhole is like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that cuts the travel time from one point to the other.

The biological sciences faculty member is being recognized by the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.

The director of the UB RENEW Institute is a globally recognized leader in environmental and analytical chemistry.

They can understand the concept of repetition and apply it to new situations, a new UB study has found.

UB PhD alumna and Fulbright scholar Naila Sahar returns to teach and conduct research at UB as an AAUW Postdoctoral International Fellow.

High school students from around the world traveled to Western New York for the event, which was hosted by the Lewiston-Porter Central School District.

The naming of the Nowicki Foreland honors Sophie Nowicki’s years of work in bringing global scientists together to model future sea level rise.

UB geography doctoral student Naiima Khahaifa is one of 36 students in the U.S. to win the Ford Dissertation Fellowship.

Samiha Islam is among 20 recipients from 900 applicants for the Phi Beta Kappa scholarship program that guides winners toward public service jobs.

The College of Arts and Sciences' Distinguished Visiting Scholar will use the award for a project on the U.S. Postal Service.

New pieces on display in One World Café are part of a broader initiative to exhibit more public art on campus.

Mark Frank is among three experts offering their perspectives on the psyches of convicted con artists on the Curiosity Stream docuseries.

UB faculty member Henry Adler's children are real-life CODAs — children of deaf adults.

The recently retired dance professor reflects on a nearly 50-year career at UB.

Art professor Millie Chen's SRS project weaves new songs of dissent into the land, broadcasting distinct, unruly voices on an ancient Eurasian migration route.  

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Janet Morrow talks about her journey to become co-founder and chief science officer of Ferric Contrast Inc.

Part of a UB research project, the combat veterans' photos explore their return to civilian life and search for meaningful social connections after war.  

UB-led research describes how a gene called Kdm6b helps motor neurons diversify into crucial subtypes.

Edreys Wajed’s impressive artwork can be seen and admired throughout Buffalo, and his experience as an MFA student at UB has helped him expand his network.

UB researchers focus on breaking down PFAS, a family of highly persistent pollutants that can accumulate in people’s bodies, and in wildlife.

A study by anthropologist Nicholas Holowka has found that heavily cushioned shoes does not impact running style.

In a new study, genetically engineered E. coli eat glucose, then help turn it into molecules found in gasoline.

Student pianist Marcus Lolo gives new meaning to community-minded undergraduates.

Mame-Fatou Niang, a visiting scholar studying Blackness in contemporary France, is teaching a seminar this semester as the Melodia E. Jones Endowed Chair.

Dalanda Jalloh, UB’s latest recipient of a Boren Scholarship, fights food insecurity as she spends part of her senior year studying in Senegal.

Although she had never written for the mainstream, UB English professor Carine Mardorossian was determined to help a hospice physician write his book.

Timothy Cook moonlights as an artist, with projects binding his two passions: science and drawing.

The study led by UB psychologist Jamie Ostrov will measure the nervous system to better understand the role of family and peer adversity.

As a live content correspondent, sophomore Michael Hunter films crucial plays for the Buffalo Bills and opposing teams’ social media accounts.

UB alumnus George Kelley has entrusted his extensive pulp fiction collection to the UB Libraries.