After four rounds of voting, Adam Sherlip, a business administration and communication major, was elected to the position of speaker of the Student Association Assembly for the 2003-04 school year at Tuesday's assembly meeting.
The students have spoken, and the winners of the 2003 Milton Plesur Awards are in.At the Student Association Assembly meeting on Tuesday, Les Skolnik, SA student affairs director, announced that Kushal Bhardwaj, adjunct instructor of African American studies; James Holmes, professor of economics; Barbara Sherman, teaching assistant professor of computer science and engineering; Kenneth Takeuchi, professor of inorganic chemistry; and Bernard Weinstein, professor of physics, were this year's winners.Two of the recipients are repeat winners; Taeuchi won the award in 1985, 1989, and 1997, while Holmes received the award in 1996.According to the SA Web site, the Milton Plesur awards - named after a UB history professor who died in 1987 - are given to undergraduate instructors "who have inspired, excited or had a positive and memorable effect" on their students.Each year, undergraduates can nominate a professor who they feel has had a positive impact on their academic experience at UB.
The Graduate Student Association elected a new president in a landslide vote this week, along with a new vice president and treasurer.
Over the next few weeks, students in a UB public relations class will apply their knowledge and carry out a public relations campaign for a professional organization.The New York Alliance for Donations, an organization that aims to promote organ and tissue donation, hired students in Professor Deborah Silverman's advanced public relations class to promote awareness for such donations on campus.The class will set up information tables and hand out pamphlets, surveys, and free water bottles at locations in the Student Union and the SU theatre before the Jay Leno comedic performance to create awareness about the necessity of organ and tissue donation.Provost Elizabeth Capaldi will speak at the group's first promotional event April 14 in the Student Union.
It wasn't until I was on the receiving end that I noticed how subtle disparaging language could be.
Over 100 people gathered Thursday night at the Delaware Park Casino to celebrate strides Buffalo leaders have taken to expand the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.The 7th Annual Honorary Banquet, sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance and the UB Law School's Outlaw Committee of the Progressive Law Society, celebrated the passage of two amendments - one local and one statewide - aimed at extending discrimination protection for members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.City Councilman Antoine Thompson, State Sen.
UB's Graduate School and the Graduate Student Association honored 26 graduate teaching assistants Friday for outstanding teaching performances at UB.Twenty-two TAs were given Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Awards, and four TAs received honorable mentions.
The Student Association Assembly passed a resolution Tuesday that called for the UB administration to work with the Workers Rights Consortium via an internal monitoring board composed of students, faculty and administrators.The resolution, which passed 18-4, also called for the administration to affiliate UB with the WRC, which is an independent monitoring body that investigates the business practices of companies producing merchandise bearing college and universities' logos.If the university recognizes the resolution, the not-for profit WRC would work with the university in seeing that clothing adorned with the UB logo was not made in factories that exploited workers.
Sounds of whirring blades and crashing metal filled the Student Union on Thursday as 10 student-designed robots squared off against one another in a fight to the scrapheap.As part of Engineering Week, the Student Association Engineering Council and Clubs held its annual "UB Bot Wars" - modeled after Comedy Central's "Battlebots" - in which students design and build robots that compete to dismantle each other.The Society of Automotive Engineers took top honors with a robot named "Drill Sergeant." The UB Robotics Club's robot, "George," was the runner-up.Event Coordinator James Ambrose, a senior majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering, served as the announcer and said UB Bot Wars surpassed his expectations."This event was very successful," Ambrose said.
From Feb. 23 to March 11, students across the SUNY system will take part in a New York Public Interest Research Group-sponsored relay-hike to Albany in protest of Gov.
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