The executive director from one of the two labor rights groups UB joined last spring confirmed that the university is officially in compliance with all the rules and regulations concerning the production of its apparel."UB is in accordance with our guidelines," said Scott Nova, executive director of the Workers' Rights Consortium.
Four months after President John Simpson said he would like to increase both UB's faculty and enrollment, Provost Satish Tripathi has announced plans to hire 110 new faculty members over the next three years.Tripathi made the plans officially public in an Oct.
For the first time next fall, anyone applying to be a graduate student at UB will now have to meet a minimum GPA requirement, officials from the UB Graduate School reported to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee on Wednesday.Bruce McCombe, vice provost for graduate education, said the changes are being made in an attempt to improve the program.
Bright, energetic music plays throughout the room. Dancers smile as they perform Gardi, Hubo and Tippani - exotic movements part of the dance - and people join in the organized dance that is Gharba.This atmosphere can be found on Saturday Oct.
A new work of art on display in the Capen Hall lobby isn't your regular "David" by Michelangelo.In fact, according to one UB professor, the whole idea behind the 2,000-pound bronze book, whose pages can actually be turned, is to rethink the very concept of public art."Public art today is very abstract," said Frank Fantauzzi, an associate professor in the UB department of architecture, who was the creative director for the project.
A mark of pride among Buffalo citizens used to be its strong public library system, known as one of the most well developed in the nation.
Walking up Bailey Avenue after dark can be an unnerving experience, especially starting from the Goodyear Hall bus stop.
This year's Buffalo mayoral campaign may be the most important election for the city in years, with candidates vying to replace a much-maligned mayor in a bankrupt city.
Jonathan Yedin was introduced on Monday as the new student representative to the UB Council, a high-profile advisory board of administrators and community members to President John Simpson.Yedin, a senior political science major from Brooklyn, gave his first report to the council and expressed his hopes for UB as well as his desire to improve on the work of past student representatives."UB is making all the right strides to becoming one of the leading universities in the nation," Yedin said.
Cindy Sheehan's "Bring Them Home Now" tour arrived in Buffalo on Monday, but the mother of a fallen U.S.
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