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ONE YEAR. HUNDREDS OF STORIES.

THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO P R O G R E S S R E P O R T

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We took the Internet underwater.

We groomed a first-round NFL draft pick.

We hosted the President of the United States.

CONDUCTING RESEARCH that finds solutions to the complex challenges of today. Educating tomorrow’s leaders to answer questions that haven’t yet been posed. Engaging our communities to make lives better in our own backyard and throughout the world. That’s the University at Buffalo, every day of the year.

The following pages list 534 news headlines from 2013-2014 that chronicle our unique footprint in higher education. UB’s role as New York State’s largest, most comprehensive public research university is reinforced by the important work our award-winning faculty, enthusiastic students and committed staff undertake every day on our three vibrant campuses to make our local and global communities healthier, more productive and more prosperous.

This list of headlines is not comprehensive; we could easily fill UB Stadium with the accomplishments from the past year. But one thing remains clear: Whether we’re building a model Mars rover, targeting new ways to treat cancer or documenting women’s activism in Pakistan, the University at Buffalo is continually making a difference in the world.

DID A HEADLINE CATCH YOUR EYE? Go online at www.buffalo.edu/list for links to each story

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LETTER FROM THE

PRESIDENTAT THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, our mission as a premier research university boils down to three basic elements: groundbreaking research, transformative educational expe-riences, and deeply engaged service to our local and global communities. It’s a simple formula that yields incredible power—bringing together thousands of minds to tackle the age-old questions and brand-new challenges facing our world in the 21st century.

How can we gauge our progress in pursuing this mission? I believe the best measure of a university’s excellence is our impact: the difference we make in the world around us, the lives we change for the better. As a scholarly community, we are dedicated to harnessing our ideas, our discoveries and our creativity to make the world a better place.

Expressing that impact in a neat package is another story entirely. Research expenditures and funds raised help define the quality of our scholarship and education—and the scope of their influence—and you will find these figures and more in this progress report.

But numbers tell only part of the story. It’s our people who bring these facts and figures to life—from our students who are building the solar home of the future to our researchers who are using nanotechnology to revolutionize cancer treatment, to our Buffalo neighbors who are partnering with us to build a greener, healthier and more culturally vibrant city.

Many of their stories are gathered here, offering hundreds of small, vivid windows on the tremendous influence our university’s people have on the world around us.

Of course, we can’t list every one of the achievements and contributions our students, faculty and staff have made this year. For every story and accomplishment recorded on these pages, there are many others to tell and countless more yet to unfold.

We hope this report gives you insight into some of what our UB family has achieved over the course of the past year, and the great difference these efforts are making. Thank you for all you contribute to the ongoing UB story, and all the ways in which you deepen and extend our impact.

With best regards,

Satish K. Tripathi, President

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THE LISTJ U LY 2 0 1 3

001. UB students head to Houston to test micropump at near-zero gravity for NASA

002. UB’s new CTRC imaging center is Western New York’s first devoted exclusively to research

003. Amazing China! Amazing India!

004. Intern puts skills to use at engineering firm Cobham

005. UB TCIE’s continuous business improvement fall classes announced

006. UB pediatrics professor receives Excellence Award from National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

007. Engineering students design bridge for rural Kenyans, now they’re seeking funding to build it

008. Federal judges take more UB students for internships

009. UB neurosurgery residents achieve among highest scores on national board exam

010. Why do females respond better to stress? Estrogen in the brain

011. Research plans to bring African yoga project home

012. Trena Peel named head softball coach

013. UB on the Green to feature theme nights

014. Software firm graduates from UB incubator to new WNY office

015. Summer school—for science teachers

016. UB receives $1.2 million grant to train future oral health researchers

017. Worried about your teenager driving a car? They can learn for free on UB’s driving simulator

018. Parade of robots concludes summer workshop

019. Exhibition showcases work of artists with developmental disabilities

021. “Chinese philosophy and the Way of Living”

022. Scientist gauging algae’s potential uses

023. 150 years after the Civil War, America still searches for racial redemption

024. UB’s undergraduate academies to hold program on lawyers as agents of social change

025. Mapping the experience of an individual with dementia

026. Can we create biofuels, fertilizer from Great Lakes algae?

027. UB researchers stalk a preventable killer

028. UB conference examines bioethics and the philosophy of medicine

029. UB faculty, students join medical mission in Haiti

030. Study finds link in genes for obesity and asthma

031. Back to the old grind!

LOOK UP the next time you’re strolling through downtown Manhattan, and you may see four 19-foot-tall angels looking down on you from their perch atop a 21-story Beaux Arts building.

Named “Dorothy,” the caryatids were crafted by Western New York restoration firm Boston Valley Terra Cotta using state-of-the-art technology and techniques introduced to them by UB faculty and students.

Terra cotta restoration has traditionally been a labor-intensive process involving many steps, from creating 2-D drawings of the original object to hand-pressing terra cotta into molds. Experts from UB’s School of Architecture and Planning approached Boston Valley with an interest in exploring industrial applications for digital fabrication tools, which students and faculty had long used to model and test their designs in the school’s Digital Fabrication Laboratory.

So far, the experiment has been an unmitigated success. The increased precision and efficiency generated by the high-tech tools are enabling Boston Valley to compete at an international level and, by taking the heavy lifting out of restoring large sculptural works, giving employees more time to focus on their craft. Meanwhile, UB students—who continue to work on-site, honing and passing on their skills—are gaining real-world experience that can’t be beat.

DIGITIZING ‘DOROTHY’ Expertise in 3-D digital fabrication leads to real-world opportunities for architecture students

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020. 3-D digital carving: A new tool for an ancient art

Experiential learning is par for the course at UB. A few more examples from the past year:> Graduate students in UB’s Master of Arts in Humanities (MAH) Program

in Caribbean and Latin/o Cultural Studies explored a lost Mayan underwater world in Yucatan, Mexico, as part of an archeological project

> The UB Space Bulls, a team of graduate and undergraduate students in engineering and communications, built a working Mars rover prototype for a NASA-sponsored competition

> Working with civil attorneys, law students helped counsel consumer debtors on their legal rights through UB’s new Consumer Financial Advocacy Clinic

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ON AUGUST 22, 2013, President Barack Obama made history at UB, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to speak on campus since Millard Fillmore in 1853.

President Obama delivered a groundbreaking national address at UB’s Alumni Arena in front of a standing-room-only crowd of 7,200. The audience included students, faculty, staff and com-munity members, as well as dig-nitaries such as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

At a time when the average student borrower owes more than $26,000 after graduating, President Obama spoke about the need for all students to be able to afford higher education. “We’ve got a crisis in terms of college afford-

ability and student debt,” Obama said. “Today I’m proposing major new reforms that will shake up the current system, create better incentives for colleges to do more with less, and deliver better value for students and their families.”

The president’s choice to deliver this message at UB was no accident. U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Colleges” guide recently ranked UB first among public uni-versities nationwide for students graduating with the least debt. UB is also at the forefront of many issues important to the Obama administration, including health care, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, and economic revital-ization through development of university research.

In a historic visit to UB, President Obama reveals higher education policy agenda that will “shake up the system”

Bold initiatives like Finish in 4, which provides resources and guidance to help students graduate on time, led the New America foundation to choose UB as one of six “Next Generation” universities.

051. President Obama visits UB, unveils higher education reforms

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS

032. A smartphone app that could help decrease marijuana use?

033. Indian Health Service and UB sign collaborative agreement

034. It’s like a Buffalo Bills mini-camp, only it’s for WNY’s budding engineers

035. Students from across U.S. to showcase research they conducted in Buffalo

036. Tiny, brightly shining silicon crystals could be safe for deep-tissue imaging

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037. Law students advise consumers under siege from creditors

038. The Chronicle cites UB as ’great college to work for’

039. Nasal spray anesthesia may work as well as injections for dental procedures, study shows

040. UB joins National Science Foundation biometrics research center

041. Dean Folks ramping up ’experiential learning’ for engineering students

042. Monster in the Great Lakes: UB students study plastic pollution

043. UB offers engineering service grants to small and mid-sized businesses

044. UB offers new online rehabilitation counseling graduate certificate program

045. UB program to fill demand for teachers of Chinese

046. Gene regulator key to healthy retinal development

047. UB microbiologists identify disease triggers

048. UB’s newly created Corporate Village at Stampede Square adds exciting element to football gamedays

049. UB gets $1 million HRSA grant to educate nurses on oral health

050. UB to welcome President Barack Obama

052. $75,000 grant to aid minority and women entrepreneurs

053. Bukowski collection at UB looks at poet’s early years

054. Campus garden goal of student group

055. UB shake tables to replicate California earthquake

056. Firsthand experience, government trust affect response to terror alerts

057. RIA awarded five NIH grants totaling more than $6 million

058. Two-story building survives shake table test

059. Swihart receives Schoellkopf Medal

060. New UB center to create more effective leaders, organizations

061. Heart disease and depression connection is topic of 2013 Golden lecture

062. Green living, eco-internships all part of UB’s new Sustainability Academy

063. Zombies to invade UB classroom this semester

064. College of Arts and Sciences welcomes 22 new faculty members this fall

065. RIA’s Gerard Connors receives prestigious national award

066. Obama’s visit brings UB national recognition as a leader in access, affordability

067. A small molecule may help reduce damage in aging-related heart attacks

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MISSION CRITICALNew lecture series sparks dialogue about pivotal 21st century issues

”Computing is characterized by exponentials: exponential improvements in processor speed, storage capacity, network bandwidth, sensors, even algorithms. These exponential improvements are invisible to most people until suddenly they sweep over us and catch us unaware.”ED LAZOWSKA, INAUGURAL SPEAKER FOR CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS

AND FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF THE eSCIENCE INSTITUTE AT THE

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

077. ‘Critical Conversations’ highlights prominent scholars

068. The world as you have not considered it

069. Genomic study reveals why children in remission from rheumatoid arthritis often experience recurrences

070. Study finds increased menthol cigarette use among young people

071. Study: Overweight and obese women are equally capable of the impulse control that lean women exhibit

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072. UB faculty and staff are welcome to relax in mindfulness meditation course

073. Slee Sinfonietta, Roman kick off UB concert season

074. Anderson Gallery to feature Hispanic artists

075. American Chemical Society career advancement event coming to UB

076. UB philosopher to talk about ’Silo City’ photo exhibition

078. Top legal experts will address the need for counsel for the poor

079. Study to take a close look at gambling among elderly Asian Americans

080. UB to bring Opie to Burchfield Penney

081. Already among “Best National Universities,” UB cracks top 10 for least student debt, according to US News rankings

082. Why are some corals flourishing in a time of global warming?

083. UB engineer awarded $300K National Science Foundation grant for protein research

084. Who is ‘Molly’? UB’s Research Institute on Addictions knows

085. UB College of Arts and Sciences celebrates 100 years of excellence

086. First proteomic analysis of birth defect demonstrates power of a new technique

087. UB exhibition expands from campus into city neighborhoods

088. Fair aims to nurture greener lifestyle

089. Synthetic proteins focus of Park’s research

090. Program offers help in early days of cancer diagnosis

091. Lecture series opens humanities research to public

092. UB enrolls the largest number of international students in its history

093. Beta Alpha Psi again receives national honors

094. Russell Cicerone named Newcomer of the Year; First Team All-MAC

095. UB to celebrate Homecoming and Family Weekend Oct. 4-6

096. Forensic accounting expert to speak at UB School of Management

097. UB to host documentary and panel discussion on health care

098. Kelly Svoboda named MAC East Defensive Player of the Week

099. UB to celebrate Chinese Moon Festival Sept. 19

100. UB rises significantly in ranking of world universities

101. Fred Lee named to Allstate AFCA Good Works Team

102. Research Institute on Addictions to host SUNY neuroscience conference

NINE OUT OF 10 schools nationwide don’t offer computer program-ming courses—despite the fact that computer science infiltrates nearly every aspect of our lives, from health care and politics to shopping and sports.

This was just one of many pow-erful messages delivered by Ed Lazowska, a leading scholar in the area of high-performance com-puting and communication sys-tems, during his appearance last fall as the inaugural speaker for “Critical Conversations.” The new annual program was launched by UB president Satish K. Tripathi to showcase distinguished scholars at the forefront of their fields.

Lazowska shared his insights into the new age of discovery in a lecture titled “Big Data, Enormous Opportunity”—a resonant subject at UB, given the university’s nationally recognized expertise in supercomputing. Referencing ev-erything from Siri to the Summer of Love, Lazowska addressed the impact of exponentials, the impor-tance of unanticipated results and the big data revolution. “Big data will allow us to put the smarts into everything,” noted the University of Washington professor.

Held at the start of the academic year, each Critical Conversations

program will feature a keynote address that is free and open to the public. Reflecting UB’s broader educational mission, the annual event has an ambitious agenda: to give the university community access to prominent thought leaders who are break-ing down traditional disciplinary walls, to prepare students to be global citizens and to contribute to UB’s growing role in leading big-picture conversations.

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132. Taking the Internet underwater

20,000 GIGABYTES UNDER THE SEA

IT SEEMS LIKE the Internet is everywhere. On our phones. In our cars. Attached to our heads. Everywhere, that is, but in the ocean.

Thanks to the pioneer-ing work done by a group of UB researchers, led by elec-trical engineering professor Tommaso Melodia, that’s about to change.

The lack of an underwater Internet until now is largely a result of the way Internet tech-nology works. On land, wireless networks rely on radio waves that transmit data via satellites and antennae. But radio waves don’t work well under water. While the Navy and other organizations have ways around this—using a combination of sound wave-based techniques and radio waves—different systems around the world use different types of infrastructure, making it difficult to share data.

The technology developed at UB will allow the transmission of data from underwater sensor networks directly to laptops,

smartphones and other wireless devices in real time. Data-sharing problem solved.

According to Melodia, this “unprecedented ability to collect and analyze data from our oceans” could have multiple applications, including monitoring pollution in our waterways, discovering underwater oil and natural gas resources, intercepting makeshift submarines used by drug smug-glers, and greatly improving the detection of tsunamis and other natural disasters.

From oil exploration to pollution monitoring to tsunami detection, the potential applications of an underwater Internet are vast

TESTED IN LAKE ERIE. PRESENTED IN TAIWAN. In November 2013, Melodia and his students shared their work at an inter-national conference for underwater technology.

103. ‘By any means necessary: Delivering the news in the 21st century’

104. Novel treatment for gonorrhea acts like a ‘live vaccine’ and prevents reinfection, UB animal study shows

105. Bright Buffalo Niagara venture forum to showcase 35 high-tech companies

106. UB Family Medicine sponsors breast cancer screenings at East Side walk and wellness event

107. PAUSA provides unique venue for music

108. UB childhood obesity expert will share new approaches and solutions in free, public lecture

109. Want to stop smoking for good? UB’s QUIT Program can help

110. UB to celebrate staff, faculty

111. Vacuum key to pouring a smooth beer

112. UB study to examine health effects of Tonawanda Coke emissions

113. From the Underground Railroad to African-American music: Past and future highlight EOC’s open house

114. Stem cells play role in atherosclerosis

115. A new approach to managing hazardous waste sites

116. Public health advocate Meredith Minkler to speak on community-based research in public health

117. Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku to speak at UB

118. Sculpture of folded steel rises in the shadow of Buffalo’s grain elevators

119. Stockholm meets New York in ‘Double Quartet’

120. Lecture to examine fandom, commerce and the freedom to play

121. UB Office of Global Health Initiatives continues its 2013 seminar series

122. UB announces global transcript notation

123. Cain receives prestigious cardiology fellowship

124. Study of skin disease reveals clues to autoimmune conditions

125. UB study to identify molecular process leading to peripheral pain

126. Professor develops test to identify risk of future DWI offenses

127. Chief judge to solicit testimony on unmet legal needs

128. Lovell awarded prestigious NIH grant to improve cancer treatment

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129. UB enrollment at record high

130. Babies born at 37-38 weeks at higher risk for adverse health outcomes

131. Refugees’ story illustrates campaign’s mission

133. UB to bring novelist Laird Hunt to Buffalo

134. Buffalo’s renaissance: Top urban planner reflects on years of work in a changing city

135. UB physicist’s work inspires new research

136. UB researcher plunges into hot teen webnovela

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WHEN UB’S NEW SCHOOL of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences opens its doors, it will bring 2,000 faculty, students and staff to downtown Buffalo on a daily basis. And it will bring them together in a way that will raise the level of teaching, research and health care for generations to come.

That was the message delivered by leaders from UB, SUNY (State University of New York) and New York State last October, when they gathered to celebrate the school’s first major construction milestone.

The roughly 610,000-square-foot building—currently the largest medical education facility under construction in the U.S.—will feature a light-filled, seven-story glass atrium, as well as state-of-the-art modular research labo-

ratories and advanced simulation centers for surgical and robotic surgery training. As the school’s opening draws closer, UB plans to hire 100 new medical faculty mem-bers and grow its medical school class from 140 to 180 students.

Most exciting, by building the medical school within steps of UB’s hospital and research partners, the university will play an important role in the creation of a comprehensive, collaborative academic health center—a hub for teaching, research and patient care that paves the way for Buffalo to become a health-care destination and to attract students and faculty from around the region and the world who want to study, teach and practice medicine at the highest level.

BREAKING NEWGROUND

“The academic health center will offer unprecedented opportunities for our faculty and students. It also will help improve the health of people who live in Western New York and beyond, as Buffalo develops into a destination for innovative approaches to clinical care and treatment.”MICHAEL E. CAIN, DEAN OF UB’S SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Construction on UB’s $375 million downtown medical school begins

150. UB breaks ground for new medical school in downtown Buffalo

137. UB’s cleanup volunteers target University Heights Linear Park, celebration to follow

138. Shibley receives state architecture education award

139. UB-led team receives $1.4M grant to mine ‘big data’ for transportation improvements

140. UB’s anti-bullying center presents annual conference during National Bullying Prevention Month

141. UB moves up in world university rankings

142. UB physician will direct National Center for Physician Training in Addiction Medicine

143. Alumna donates professorship to College of Arts and Sciences

144. Second $4.7 million DOE grant to Center for Assistive Technology

145. UB Employees Campaign for the Community

146. RIA’s Gancarz takes top prize at Neuroscience Research Day

147. New study: Does putting your feet up = power?

148. Stephen Goss, education reformer

149. RIA’s Eiden receives prestigious NIH appointment

151. Water meets lava and, curiously, no explosion

152. Nobel Prize for Higgs boson thrills UB physicists

153. UB ‘taking it to the next level,’ Tripathi reports in university address

154. School of Management jumps 8 spots in Forbes ranking

155. The 25th annual J. Warren Perry speaker to address issues of world obesity

156. Karen Finley to visit UB and debut new performance

157. Nov. 8 concert to celebrate the 60th birthday of David Felder

158. UB alumnus, a national expert on U.S. economy, to speak at CTRC in November

159. Irish-born lyrical poet Eamon Grennan to give UB 2013 Silverman Reading

160. Endowment for Robert Frost collection at $65,000 and growing

161. UB collaborates on one-of-a-kind new media gallery

162. Putting segregation to the numbers test

163. UB to celebrate Gender Week

164. Smyth among top social work professors using Twitter wisely

165. Grant aims to increase family consent to organ donation

166. Cancer scientist launches drug-development company

167. UB medical technology graduates fill growing national shortage

168. Lewis named American Academy of Nursing fellow

169. Second annual Buffalo Food Policy Summit to be held Oct. 23

170. Increasing colorectal cancer screening among African Americans

171. Applicants sought for technology entrepreneurship competition

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“A REVEREND, a poet and a mathematician walk into a bar…”That’s how Will Kinney, associate professor of physics,

attempts to explain how some people perceive the Science & Art Cabaret. But this popular event series, which brings local artists and university researchers together to discuss a hodgepodge of thought-provoking topics, is no joke.

Rather, it’s one of UB’s most talked-about happenings, where the public is invited to grab a drink and listen as experts discuss a common theme. The eclectic series—a collaboration among UB’s College of Arts and Sciences, Hall-walls Contemporary Arts Center and the Buffalo Museum of Science—is held at various locations, but most often at a refurbished church in the heart of downtown. Other than the cash bar, events are free.

October 2013 marked the start of the fifth year for the cabaret, which Kinney co-founded along with John Massier, visual arts curator at Hallwalls, and Gary Nickard of the Department of Art. The landmark season kicked off with a conversation on “hysteresis,” a word that refers to the way the history of a system influences its current state. Physicists shared the spotlight with a commercial photographer and a James Joyce expert. Past presenters have included a psychologist, a painter, an artist who draws cadavers, an illu-sionist, a law school professor and an electronic

music ensemble. The point—other

than to have a good time—is to reveal how

people working in diverse fields often think and talk

about similar problems, without even knowing it. “Sometimes,” said Massier,

“it’s not about answers, but about lots

and lots of questions.”

Science & Art Cabaret celebrates 5th season of mixing it up

LIFE IS A CABARET

“We wanted to pull science

out of the stuffy lecture hall and

show that it really is a creative

activity: vital, lively, human

and fun.”

WILL KINNEY, UB

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

OF PHYSICS

189. Science & Art Cabaret celebrates 5th season

172. UB professors foster bioinformatics education in WNY high schools

173. ‘Zombies’ kick off ‘Scholars on the Road’ lecture series

174. UB neurologists to discuss new treatments and research with the public

175. This is not your grandmother’s poetry collection

176. Clinton covers the issues in UB lecture

177. UB opens Center for Excellence in Writing

178. Taking a hard look at government surveillance

179. Engineering alumnus gives $500,000 to support professorship

180. NSF grant funds UB communication research into anti-phishing models

181. Breaking ground in cancer research

182. No firm link between violence and video games, Anstey says

183. Institutions discuss role in economic growth

184. How problems with an Alzheimer’s protein can jam up traffic in the brain

185. UB literacy teachers well-prepared for teaching in challenging times

186. Shamans weave myth, history to rewrite story of a subjugated people

187. Carnegie Mellon and UB researchers improving transit and sidewalk access for people with disabilities

188. Zimpher names two from UB in first class of SUNY student fellows

190. Activities slated for 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Week at UB

191. New office to support student veterans

192. Women’s human rights theme of International Education Week

193. Caribbean/Latino studies students find program a hands-on experience

194. A question of access topic of UB Law discussions

195. NIH funds UB pharmacology initiatives

196. UB joins database that pairs subjects with research studies

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197. Sound poet and digital artist Jaap Blonk to perform

198. Zimmerman attorneys to speak at trial competition

199. Cahn receives prestigious Vanderbilt fellowship

200. Lee Foundation makes $600,000 gift to UB for schizophrenia research

201. Next-gen crystallography: UB and partner institutions awarded $25 million to develop new X-ray imaging of biomolecules

202. Buffalo Criminal Law Center puts scholars in touch worldwide

203. UB graduate student helps facilitate major health studies in India

204. Friedman named global fellow at Wilson center

205. Students take top honors in hackathons in Ohio, Michigan

206. Bystanders can make a difference, bullying expert says

207. Sculptural wall made from local materials wins international prize

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208. Greiner Hall and UB-Kaleida Health building win awards for America’s best buildings of the year

209. Stingray movement could inspire the next generation of submarines

210. Researchers study how to use mind-controlled robots in manufacturing, medicine

211. Literacy depends on nurture, not nature, UB education professor says

212. Early onset dementia and CTE potential in professional football and hockey players are key focus of UB study

213. Law professors have roles in high-level court cases

214. FAFSA project clears the way for students’ financial aid

215. Gladwell weaves captivating tale of an underdog

216. Course to break down ‘Breaking Bad’

217. UB team works with Indian social workers to advance children’s rights

218. Hundreds of student volunteers grab shovels and paintbrushes for UB’s Community Day

219. ‘Open Doors’ ranks UB among top 20

220. Childhood obesity expert to head Department of Social and Preventive Medicine

221. Prasad receives honorary doctorate from Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology

222. Undergraduates to study medicinal plants, culture of healing in Peru

223. Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership to launch family business initiative

224. School of Management names winners in accounting competition

225. Heavy drinking is bad for marriage if one spouse drinks, but not both

226. College marketing can prey on disadvantaged students

227. Does obesity reshape our sense of taste?

228. Infrared vision lets researchers see through multiple layers of graphene

229. Beyond the brain: Vascular changes in the neck may play role in Alzheimer’s

230. Four UB researchers receive NSF’s prestigious CAREER award

231. Greenland’s shrunken ice sheet: We’ve been here before

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233. UB TCIE to debut new Green Belt, data courses in spring semester

234. Therapy dogs come to UB to ease stress of final exams

235. Panel to examine ‘untold’ stories of environmental contamination

236. A boost for Bailey Avenue businesses

237. UB installs electric car-charging stations on campus

238. Students get hands-on experience while rebuilding neighborhoods

239. Malave receives a Fulbright-Hays award for Mandarin study in China

240. RIA’s Frone named APA Fellow, authors new book

241. Helping lung cancer patients beat insomnia

RUGBY PLAYER. Jazz musician. Published researcher. There are many ways to describe Phillip Tucciarone, who re-cently graduated from UB with a BS in chemical engineering.

In December 2013, Tucciarone added one more item to the list: Marshall Scholarship winner.

The Marshall is among the most prestigious scholarships in the world; Tucciarone was one of 34 winners nationwide. Previous recipients have gone on to become CEOs, Supreme Court justices and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors.

Given his near-perfect GPA, two published peer- reviewed academic papers and several other awards (including the 2013 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship), one might think Tucciarone was destined for the Marshall. The truth is anything but.

“I worked in trades all of my life—as a plumber’s apprentice, mowing lawns for a landscaping company and drilling water wells,” Tucciarone says. The Orange County, N.Y., native didn’t even plan to go to college. Then he received a scholarship to attend UB, and the rest is history.

Despite an intense academic workload, Tucciarone found time to play club rugby at UB, serve as president of the Honors Student Council, mentor high school students in Buffalo’s public schools and organize an annual volunteer trip to the Dominican Republic to teach children English.

Inspired by his volunteer work and his positive experiences at UB, Tucciarone is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Oxford with the goal of becoming a professor of materials science. “Education is the strongest mechanism for change in the world,” he says.

Tucciarone credits the passion and dedication of UB’s faculty for his own desire to teach. “The faculty at UB is incredible,” he says. “They engaged me from day one.”

SCHOLARSHIP MATERIALA high-profile award keeps UB engineering student on course to change the world

232. Engineering student wins prestigious Marshall Scholarship

FULBRIGHT PROGRAM

The largest U.S. international exchange program, enabling accomplished students to pursue international graduate study, advanced research or teaching worldwide.

DOMINIQUE BERTRAND, a PhD student in anthropology, was named a Fulbright Fellow to conduct research in Indonesia.

COURTNEY BURROUGHS, a 2014 graduate in international studies, was named a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Scholar to teach English and conduct cultural exchange programs in Russia.

AQUILLA HINES, an English major, was named a Fulbright ETA Scholar to teach English in Spain.

SUNY CHANCELLOR’S AWARDS FOR STUDENT EXCELLENCE

Honors SUNY students who have integrated their academic achievements with other aspects of their lives, including leadership, athletics, career achievement, community service, and creative and performing arts.

KELSEY BARBOURERIN ELLISEMILY FIORECOURTNEY KODWEISTAYLOR LANSING

WOODROW WILSON FELLOWSHIP

Provides mentoring and access to master’s level education programs to college seniors and new teachers during their first three years at high-need urban and rural schools.

MEGAN ROSS, a 2014 graduate of chemistry and classics, will attend Purdue University as a teaching fellow.

HARRY S. TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP

Awards highly selective, merit-based scholar-ships to 60-65 U.S. stu-dents planning to pursue careers in government or other public service.

CHRISTINE TJAHJADI-LOPEZ (finalist), a senior geog-raphy major, is founder of “Bloggers Against Social Injustice,” an international blog that raises awareness of human rights issues.

OUR SENSATIONAL

STUDENTSPhillip Tucciarone put his talent to work at UB, taking full advantage of its resources and making a noticeable impact on campus and beyond. But he wasn’t the only one. In the past year, a remarkable group of student leaders, scholars and researchers received state and national recognition for their high-caliber achievements.

BARRY M. GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIP

One of the country’s most prestigious student awards, given annually to sophomores and juniors planning to pursue advanced degrees in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering.

SEAN BEARDEN (left) Having inherited his passion for math and science from a “kooky” great uncle interested in concepts like perpetual motion, Bearden has been conducting research on spin lasers. These futuristic gadgets aim to manipulate spin in order to reduce the electric current needed to create a highly focused laser beam—an advancement that could lead to more efficient data transfer in computers.

NIGEL MICHKI After taking an Honors College seminar on basic phar-macy, Michki, a computational physics major, was inspired to explore how physics can be used to study biological systems. He has taken on the challenge of building a device that will help scientists study proteins in solution, which could lead to a better understanding of cellular systems—as well as the medicines that treat them.

Honorable Mentions: STEPHANIE KONG, KRISTINA MONAKHOVA

ANDREW LYONSELISE MARTINKAYLA MAXWELLDANIEL OVADIAELISE ROBERTS

AMANDA SHERMANMATTHEW SILVERCHRISTINE TJAHJADI-LOPEZPHILLIP TUCCIARONETRENTON VAN EPPS

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IMAGINE you’re diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. It’s a terrible thought, but now imagine if, instead of a standard treat-ment plan, your doctor could prescribe a custom-tailored therapy based on your exact genetic makeup.

This hopeful vision underlies UB’s Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics (BIG), part of a $100 million collaboration between UB and the New York Genome Center aimed at putting New York State at the forefront of personalized medicine. Announced in January by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this bold initiative has the potential to revolution-ize the way physicians treat, prevent and manage disease.

To be successful, genomic medicine requires the analysis of massive amounts of information, or “big data.” This is where UB fills a critical role, thanks to the university’s expertise in high- performance computing, combined with recognized national leadership in genomics and analysis of patient data. UB has vast capabilities within its Center for Computational Research, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinfor-matics and Life Sciences, and Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

The big picture—or, in this case, the BIG picture—includes a major shot in the arm for the Buffalo Niagara economy. The governor’s investment in UB, part of the Buffalo Billion commitment, is already attracting companies that support genomic medicine to the region, and is sure to spur the creation of many more.

A BIG STORYBuffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics is a key part of plan to put New York State at the leading edge of personalized medicine

“If I had one word to summarize what the genomic medicine project means, it’s hope. It gives us hope that we will finally be on a path to solving disease on a personal basis, so we’re not treating sick people but preventing disease based on the risks we find in their genomes.”

NORMA NOWAK, UB

PROFESSOR OF BIOCHEMISTRY

AND FOUNDER/CHIEF

SCIENTIFIC OFFICER OF

EMPIRE GENOMICS

271. UB selected to co-lead state efforts to position New York as national leader in genome research

242. Two UB architects awarded artist fellowships

243. Bulls accept invitation to Famous Idaho Potato Bowl

244. UB to host Origins, a symposium on how things begin

245. Epstein is named AAAS Fellow

246. Unraveling how H. influenzae thrives in COPD patients

247. Engineers zap bridges with electricity to test for corrosion

248. Private funds support young scientist’s research on pediatric lymphoma

249. Malaysian alum to lead international alumni relations

250. Welch to mark 50th year at UB by giving Fillmore speech

251. 48 good films for a well-rounded education

252. State awards UB $1 million for supercomputer expansion

253. UB serving as incubator for the bus of the future

254. Bay-Cheng to present research in Croatia

255. UB Nation unites in party mode to support bowl game

256. Five named SUNY Distinguished Professors

257. UB researcher wins Dale Prize for efforts to promote healthy cities

258. $3.7 million bridge engineering institute launched

259. U.S. Supreme Court: Lead, follow or get out of the way?

260. Who gets in? Immigration forum explores tough questions

261. Murky legal status for same sex marriage

262. The origin of flowers: DNA of storied plant could help solve ‘Darwin’s abominable mystery’

263. Corporate retail notes: A good investment for individuals?

264. UB is ranked among the nation’s top five in COPD research

265. Toys, books, cribs can harbor bacteria for long periods, study finds

J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 4

266. More ER visits result from complex factors, says UB medical policy expert

267. People in poor neighborhoods are twice as likely to have gambling problems, study finds

268. Stimulating brain cells stops binge drinking, animal study finds

269. Program allows kids to dream up dream digs

270. UB Graduate School of Education to offer new online graduate programs

272. New website provides entrepreneurs with business development resources

273. U.S. News and World Report ranks UB’s Graduate School of Education online programs among the country’s 25 best

274. Study finds troubling relationship between drinking and PTSD symptoms in college students

275. Five UB inventions that could make life better for tomorrow’s consumers

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RENEWED FOCUS

“ONE OF THE MOST urgent challeng-es faced by humankind is finding ways to sustain human existence while adapting to climate change and the evolving needs for energy and fresh water.”

So said UB Provost Charles F. Zukoski in February 2014, as he announced the launch of RENEW (Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water)—an ambitious, interdisciplinary, university-wide research institute designed to face these challenges head-on, and position UB as a leader in environmental and energy research.

One of the most expansive initiatives launched by UB in recent years, RENEW will har-ness the expertise of more than 100 faculty members across six schools, with more expected to be hired in coming years. Together, they will represent an impres-sive convergence of seemingly disparate fields—ranging from aquatic ecology and pollution law to behavioral economics and community health—all working to address urgent global issues.

RENEW evolved from UB 2020, a plan to position UB as one of the world’s leading universities by in-vesting in and harnessing research strengths in an effort to bring positive changes to the world.

“This is what great research universities do,” said Zukoski.

“We bring together the best minds to address timely topics and solve problems.”

Interdisciplinary research institute is focusing on critical environmental problems

Below are just a few of the research projects currently underway at RENEW:

> Development of biological control mechanisms to fight massive algae blooms in Lake Erie

> A study of how consumers react to economic incentives when shopping for a hybrid car

> A project that addresses the legal implications of climate change for land conservation agreements

> An investigation into how environ-mental and occupational exposure to pesticides affects human health

303. UB launches a major research effort to address the most important environmental issues of our time

276. Buckle your seatbelts! Wooden Cities will take to the Slee stage in February

277. Urban night shift police more likely to suffer long-term job injuries, study finds

278. Space junk tracking researcher receives named professorship, thanks to $250K CUBRC donation

279. Zach Ahart earns Academic All-MAC accolades

280. UB lecture series will introduce companies to START-UP NY, the new tax-free program for businesses

281. Recent TEDxBuffaloWomen has decidedly UB flavor

282. Renowned tobacco researcher discusses Surgeon General’s new report on smoking

283. Chemistry doctoral student wins fellowship to learn about science policy in D.C.

284. The symphony of life, revealed

285. iSciWNY to celebrate the next generation of life sciences professionals at induction ceremony

286. Entrepreneur course kick-starts student businesses

287. Staying cool in the nanoelectric universe by getting hot

288. UB and National Grid offer hands-on STEM experiments to Westminster students

289. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation honors UB pediatrics professor

290. UB medical school professor receives top ophthalmology honor

291. Giddy-up! The Chinese Year of the Horse is upon us

292. UB Law School joins prestigious legal honor society

293. RIA helps shatter myths on prescription and OTC drugs

294. Dreams of a better Kabul bring Afghan scholar to U.S. to study urban planning

295. Swiss cheese crystal, or high-tech sponge?

296. Rust Belt gentrification and how it hurts the poor

297. Oishei Foundation gives $5 million to UB for School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ new building

298. Super Bowl Sunday: Risky business for at-risk drinkers?

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 4

299. Cain reflects on growth, new med school during annual address

300. UB dean chairs international symposium on oral and systemic health

301. The cabaret comes to Amherst (the Science & Art Cabaret, that is)

302. RIA spring seminars feature renowned experts on drugs and alcohol

304. UB volcanologists can discuss safety and hazards surrounding high-risk volcanoes

305. Finley watches U.S. Supreme Court buffer zone ruling

306. UB’s Graduate School of Education confronts the teaching vs. research dilemma

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UB Makes the NewsFACULTY EXPERTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

WALL STREET JOURNAL“If people are politically skilled, they can do bad things really well.”

—DARREN TREADWAY, associate professor of organization and human resources, about his research on bullying in the workplace

HUFFINGTON POST“Most fish wag their tails to swim. A stingray’s swimming is much more unique, like a flag in the wind.”

—RICHARD BOTTOM, a mechanical engineering graduate student featured in a video with Iman Borazjani, assis-tant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, about how UB and Harvard University are studying the stingray to develop more agile submarines

TIME MAGAZINE“The study found significant positive correlations between video-game guilt and the moral foundations violated during game play.”

—MATTHEW GRIZZARD, assistant professor of com-munication, about his study that indicated playing a terrorist in a violent video game may make you more morally sensitive

DOMUS (ITALY)“Planning and design for UB and our region came together be-cause UB leadership recognized that our responsibility in the evolution of our campus extends to the community. I have had the opportunity to put a scholarly and ped-agogical lens to this work, essentially turn-ing the development of our campus, city and region into a living laboratory for our faculty and students.”

—ROBERT SHIBLEY, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, on his role in a series of planning projects at UB and for the broader West-ern New York community

FAST COMPANY“We may just be on the cusp of crowdsourcing scientific data.”

—GEOLOGIST CHRIS LOWRY, on his crowdsourcing project CrowdHydrology, which collects data and engages the public about local water systems

THE SCIENTIST “We are developing agents to sensitize bacteria to the agents we already have.”

—ANDERS HAKANSSON, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, about new weap-ons he is developing against antibiotic-resistant bacteria using a protein in human milk

LOS ANGELES TIMES “It’s a popular view that males and females respond differently to stress. Our study offers the molecular mechanism.”

—ZHEN YAN, professor of phys-iology and biophysics, on her study showing that estrogen helps women respond better to stress than men

NEW YORK TIMES “It’s a step forward, but it’s not a giant step. It’s a battleship they are moving here. It’s not a dinghy.”

—GARY GIOVINO, professor and chair of the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior, on the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed regulation of e-cigarettes

WIRED “We do not really utilize the concepts of space, time and spectrum efficiently.”

—DIMITRIS PADOS, professor of electrical engineering, on the U.S. Armed Forces sharing $2.7 million with UB computer science researchers to de-velop software that can make wireless radios smarter and more efficient

WGRZ CHANNEL 2“No great city is a great city without a great university, and no great university is a great university without a great city.”

—UB PRESIDENT SATISH K. TRIPATHI at the groundbreaking for the new downtown UB medical school, which is expected to bring 2,000 additional faculty, staff and students to downtown Buffalo

FUTURITY“This is an important distinction that could help researchers decide which kind or type of blocks to focus on when developing drugs and other forms of therapy for some of these debilitating diseases.”

—SHERMALI GUNAWARDENA, assistant professor of biologi-cal sciences, about a UB study of fruit fly larvae that found fast-dissolving blockages in the flies’ brains, which might lead to treatment for neurode-generative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s

BBC“This collection draws scholars and fans from around the world who drive hundreds of miles to stand in the pres-ence of this material.”

—MICHAEL BASINSKI, curator of the Poetry Collection, about a UK exhibition marking the centenary of the birth of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas that in-cludes rare materials from UB

NBC NIGHTLY NEWS

“This study shows that what we could consid-er to be a low dose of caffeine—what some might not think twice about giving to an 8-year-old—is having an effect on the car-diovascular system.”

—JENNIFER TEMPLE, associate professor in the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions, about a study that hints at worrisome effects of caffeine on kids

HEALTH MAGAZINE

“If mothers are under psychological or physical stress, that may impact the interchange of nutri-ents and biochemicals between the mother and the fetus.”

—EPIDEMIOLOGIST YOUFA WANG, about Danish research showing that unborn children of mothers exposed to severe stress are more prone to obesity later in life

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

“Our findings point the way to the manage-ment of asthma in the obese through simple weight reduction.”

—PARESH DANDONA, UB Distin-guished Professor and chief of endocrinology, on his research showing that genes linked to chronic inflammation in asthma may be more active in obese people and more than twice as active in the morbidly obeseARCHITECT

MAGAZINE“Seeing a million bats fly out at once from under a bridge—those are experiences that are sublime.”

—JOYCE HWANG, associate professor of architecture, about how she has built her design practice around incorporating animal habitats into urban areas and projects

FORBES“The issue with texting and going across intersections is a serious public health issue that results in large numbers of injuries and deaths….Putting the cell phone down while you’re doing this can save a number of lives.”

—DIETRICH JEHLE, professor of emergency medicine, in a feature about his research on the dangers of texting and walking

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

“It makes little sense to me to suggest any links between the 120,000-year-old polar bear and a bear (or Yeti) in the Himalayas.”

—MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST CHARLOTTE LINDQVIST, on genetic research linking a breed of ancient Arctic bears to the legendary “Yeti,” or Abominable Snowman

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION WEBSITE

“You see these won-derful volcanic erup-tions with the plumes, but gravity currents are going down the mountain. It can be very deadly.”

—E. BRUCE PITMAN, professor and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, about using mathematics to calculate and understand mudslides and other debris flows

USA TODAY“The kid humanized the whole business of trading. While other babies are just pic-tures, this one has a personality that is pure pop culture.”

—ELAYNE RAPPING, professor emeritus of American studies, about future marketing of the wildly successful “spokesbaby” from E-Trade’s TV commercials

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES (AUSTRALIAN EDITION)

“Almost immediately when pharmaceutical companies started introducing products, they claimed they were either non-addictive or less addictive.”

—DAVID HERZBERG, associate professor of history, on researchers’ latest efforts to make addiction-proof painkillers

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

“I deal with accusa-tions, whispers, public statements, grouses that people make. Usually, my model shows, no, this play really was within expectation.”

—KEN REGAN, “chess detective” and associate professor of computer science and engi-neering, about an algorithm he developed to reveal chess players who cheat

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OUR PLACE IN THE SUN

IMAGINE TENS OF thousands of people traveling across the country to cheer for their favorite team … of architecture students.

That will be the scene in Irvine, Calif., in 2015, as UB competes against a handful of other univer-sities in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon—a nation-al contest in which collegiate teams design, construct and operate cost-effective solar dwellings.

Earlier this year, UB was chosen by the Department of Energy as one of only 20 schools to compete in the prestigious event. Each solar house will be judged in 10 contests, rang-ing from architecture and engineer-ing to home appliance performance. 

The name for UB’s entry—the GRoW House—refers to three spac-es inside the 884-square-foot home, where residents can Garden, Relax or Work (GRoW): a glass room for growing plants, a super-insulated office/bedroom and a kitchen. Orga-nizers hope their efforts will prove that solar power is a viable option for the Buffalo region. In fact, the GRoW House has been designed to not only produce more energy than it consumes, but to reduce lifestyle energy use as occupants raise their own food and power their (electric) car with the house’s solar energy.

UB one of 20 schools nationwide chosen to partake in solar house competition

318. “GRoW House” lands UB a spot in national Solar Decathlon

307. Research on venous abnormalities must continue, urge UB authors of one of neurology’s most cited papers

308. ‘Dental heroes’ and free dental care for kids at UB’s ‘Give Kids a Smile Day’

309. Bacteria in the lungs make COPD patients sicker, even without exacerbations

310. First evidence-based diagnostic criteria for TMD developed by researchers

311. New book offers financial advice for when we ‘get stupid’

312. How do polar bears stay warm? Research finds an answer in their genes

313. UB School of Management students to compete in CFA Research Challenge

314. UB named to list of top colleges graduating students with lowest debt

315. UB Athletics unveils facilities master plan

316. Poetry Collection receives $150K to catalogue obscure yet influential post-WWII literary magazine archives

317. Wanted: Parents looking to raise healthy, globally proficient children

319. Robot wars. Pumpkin chucking. Bottle rockets. Yup, it’s National Engineers Week at UB

320. Investment bankers lead businesses to better mergers, acquisitions

321. UB to host 11th annual Safe Schools Initiative Seminar March 17

322. Architect Joyce Hwang earns coveted ‘Emerging Voices’ award from Architectural League of New York

323. Environmental activist and ’Story of Stuff’ creator Annie Leonard to speak at UB on March 11

324. National award to honor Robert Shibley’s role in revitalizing Buffalo

325. ‘BAND Against Bullying’ competition returns to UB, sending abuse- prevention and ‘dignity for all’ messages

326. Growing Food Connections launches website to train communities across the U.S. in food systems planning

327. An (optical) cavity that you want

328. Think it’s safe to type a quick text while walking? Guess again

329. UB to partner with EWI on advanced manufacturing institute

330. Miller named first vice provost for equity and inclusion

331. Secondhand smoke exposure linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes

332. Ethics of abortion to be topic of philosophy debate

333. UB Law School advances to International Round of Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

M A R C H 2 0 1 4

334. Free college courses for prisoners makes good financial and social sense, says UB Law School expert on prison life

335. UB lecture series will introduce Buffalo’s $5 million business plan competition, 43North

336. UB Football hosts Pro Day

“Sometimes, to get things moving, you need a project that captures people’s imaginations—something people can experience firsthand.”

Students and faculty from various disciplines are contributing to the two-year project, which is providing a unique learning experience while taking advantage of universi-ty-wide expertise in sustainability. The School of Architecture and Planning is taking the lead role, with support from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,  and the School of Management. 

After the decathlon, the GRoW House will return to Buffalo and become a community resource, with tours geared toward teaching people about the benefits of sustainable design.

MARTHA BOHM, UB ASSISTANT

PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE

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FOR STUDENTS FROM UB’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, growing interest in global health is turning the world into a classroom.

In ever-increasing numbers, stu-dent volunteers are serving in remote hospitals and clinics around the globe, in countries where a lack of basic resources and sufficient medical practitioners can create challenging situations, along with tremendous opportunities.

In Uganda, for example, fourth-year medical student Julie Garchow was able to assist with cesarean sections— a role typically limited to interns and residents in the United States. She also worked with HIV patients, developing a color-coded medication labeling system for those with minimal literacy, and treating comorbidities including malaria and typhoid—”diseases you just don’t see in the U.S.,” she says.

Garchow is former president of UB’s International Health Interest Group, a student-run organization that helps fa-cilitate overseas rotations and gathers regularly to discuss issues in global health. This group is partially respon-sible for the fact that almost a quarter of our med students serve overseas.

But they’re not the only ones at UB with a global outlook. Nearly 11 percent of all students—five times the national average—visit other countries through more than 70 study abroad programs.

UB students are also making a difference in our own backyard. Here is a sampling of the dozens of initia-tives that serve our local community

EACH YEAR, IRS-certified account-ing students from the School of Management provide free tax preparation services to middle- and low-income residents. Over the past seven years, they’ve brought more than $6.7 million back into the Buffalo community

A DENTAL CLINIC run by the School of Dental Medicine at the new Erie County Health Mall is giving residents of an East Side neighborhood access to dental care while providing students hands-on experience in setting up a practice

SINCE 2011, students from the Graduate School of Education and other UB volunteers have helped more than 1,000 low- income families fill out FAFSA financial aid forms, making college possible for increas-ing numbers of high school graduates

350. From Uganda to Haiti, UB medical students to discuss caring for the underserved overseas

337. First phase of UB downtown medical school construction is awarded to LPCiminelli

338. Inventors and entrepreneurs honored at UB reception

339. Winners revealed in Target Case Competition

340. Zohydro will create new addicts, UB addiction medicine expert says

341. Up to 2,000 engineers expected in Buffalo for summer conference

342. UB designates tax-free zones in Buffalo and Amherst for START-UP NY

343. Daylight saving time adds stress to the sleep-deprived, says UB sleep medicine physician

344. MAC East Champions: Bulls dominate BG For Senior Day victory

345. Loesing, Sharkey and Malone honored as All-MAC performers

346. Making diabetes screening more available at the dentist’s office

347. Javon McCrea named MAC Player of the Year

348. Eight MBA students advance to Whitman Case Competition finals

349. More than $25,000 at stake for aspiring entrepreneurs in Panasci Competition semifinals

Nearly a quarter of UB’s medical students volunteer abroad

A WORLD OF GOOD

351. Lecture to highlight how new technology will revive Rust Belt

352. New program to boost Buffalo’s Kensington-Bailey business district

353. Aquaponics, acid reflux demos and more! Summit to feature student science projects

354. Leadership conference to feature national and regional executives

355. Strongest evidence yet of two distinct human cognitive systems

356. 13 to be honored by the UB Alumni Association

357. Perennial favorite frozen banana, STDs that ‘keep on giving’ and other ‘Cool Science’ attractions return to UB

358. Buffalo’s grassroots initiatives and the future they portend

359. Not just the gut: Negative relationships, fatigue are more powerful than symptoms in IBS patients’ health perceptions

360. Citizen Planning School will train community members to transform ideas into action

361. Civil Wars: ‘Narrating Horror and Hope’

362. New education lecture series will bring prominent speakers to UB

363. UB School of Management to host first Military MBA Preview Day

364. UB’s Morse presides over first graduation of Zimbabwe Traditional Healers

365. Nursing expert on diabetes to present the 2014 Margaret A. Nelson Lecture

366. U.S. News & World Report ranks UB grad programs among best in nation

367. UB weight-loss researchers are recruiting families for study on memory and attention training

368. UB MBAs take second place in prestigious Whitman Competition

369. Creating fiscal phenoms—Teens to compete in financial literacy challenge

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395. Fighting cancer with lasers and nanoballoons that pop

370. Two companies with international ties join UB Technology Incubator

371. Sanjay Gupta to speak at UB today as part of Distinguished Speakers Series

372. Engineering students available for corporate improvement projects

373. ‘Insider’ Jeffrey Wigand to discuss his tobacco industry experience at UB

374. Even if they don’t reduce body fat, obesity prevention programs can lower kids’ blood pressure

375. Beyond its clichés: Buffalo in history, imagination and fact

376. End-of-life expert and author to speak at UB

377. Aspiring entrepreneurs to compete for more than $60,000 at UB

378. Two UB students win highly competitive Goldwater Scholarships

379. Rainbow-catching waveguide could revolutionize energy technologies

380. UB’s School of Social Work establishes Institute on Sustainable Global Engagement

381. UB celebrates National Prosthodontics Awareness Week with a proclamation from Mayor Byron Brown

382. Teens with Type 1 diabetes share experiences in group run by UB medical students

383. UB’s Singapore Student Association holds Make-A-Wish fundraiser featuring memory expert Dave Farrow

384. Historic preservation the focus of new UB programs

385. UB medical team to deliver primary care to patients with serious mental illnesses

A P R I L 2 0 1 4

386. Ancient Roman cooking course inspires 2,000 UB students to dine as Romans did thousands of years ago

387. One of America’s most distinguished conducting awards goes to UB’s Harold Rosenbaum

388. UB is recruiting people with tinnitus to try new device that retrains the ‘hearing’ brain

389. First annual science week highlights STEM pipeline and partnerships

390. A book club for doctors: Bestselling author’s visit inspires UB medical faculty and students to discuss humanism in medicine

391. Up to 110 students expected at UB’s third annual hackathon this weekend

392. Winners of UB entrepreneurship competition feeling good vibrations

393. OUCH! Computer system spots fake expressions of pain better than people

394. RIA study proposes new treatment method for alcohol problems

396. UB biotech majors visit Thermo Fisher Scientific to take tour, explore career options

397. Two UB architecture projects—including Silo City wall—win international awards

398. EAGeR medical trial: Low-dose aspirin won’t prevent pregnancy loss

399. 2014 UB Signature Series’ ‘fireside chat’ to feature artist Douglas Fitch, Albright-Knox Director Janne Sirén

IT SOUNDS LIKE a scene from a James Bond movie. But instead of taking place on the streets of an exotic city, this action happens deep inside a blood vessel—and the futuristic vehicle is a microscopic pod called a “nanoballoon.”

“Think of it this way,” said UB research-er Jonathan Lovell. “The nanoballoon is a submarine. The drug is the cargo. We use a laser to open the submarine door, which releases the drug. We close the door by turning the laser off. We then retrieve the submarine as it circulates through the bloodstream.”

Lovell, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering (a relatively new department which spans the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), is talking about the novel technology he uses to deliver chemother-apeutic drugs directly to cancer cells. It’s such a potential game-changer in the fight against cancer, the National Institutes of Health awarded Lovell a five-year, $1.9 million grant under their Early Independence Award program—one of just 15 awarded nationwide to fund high-risk, high-reward research.

Typically, chemotherapy is delivered intravenously. But as the powerful drugs spread through the body, they often inter-act with healthy bodily systems, diluting the drugs and causing side effects like nausea and hair loss.

To address these concerns, Lovell inserts chemotherapeutic drugs into tiny modified liposomes that are roughly 1,000 times thinner than human hair. When the nanoballoons reach the cancer cells, Lovell strikes them with a red laser, triggering them to pop open and release super-concentrated doses of medicine. “Why [they] open in response to an otherwise harmless red laser is still a bit of a mystery to us, but we have definitely unearthed a new and unique phenome-non,” said Lovell.

CANCER-FIGHTING CARGO Novel drug delivery

method could transform cancer treatment

“This award could help improve how we treat cancer and po-tentially alleviate pain that millions of people and their families endure.” LIESL FOLKS,

DEAN OF UB’S SCHOOL

OF ENGINEERING AND

APPLIED SCIENCES

BITING BACK AGAINST BACTERIA

GETTING CLOSER TO FINDING A LINK BETWEEN BACTERIA IN THE MOUTH AND CHRONIC DISEASES OF AGING

The composition of the oral microbiome (mouth bacteria) and its relationship to periodontal disease in postmenopausal women is the subject of an interdisciplinary study led by epidemiologist Jean Wactawski-Wende of the School of Public Health and Health Professions. The study, funded by a $4 million grant from the NIH National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, may lay the foundation for understanding how the oral microbiome impacts the development of other chronic diseases of aging.

IN WITH THE OLD

PHARMACY RESEARCHERS HIT REWIND TO FIGHT SUPERBUGS

UB scientists hope to squash modern super-bugs using a class of antibiotics developed more than 50 years ago. A $4.4 million National Institutes of Health RO1 grant—the most pres-tigious NIH grant and the largest active RO1 among U.S. clinical phar-macy departments—will allow Brian Tsuji and his colleagues to develop new dosing regimens for a type of antibiotic that has been proven effective against some antibiotic- resistant bacteria.

PHISH BAIT

UB DUO ZEROES IN ON INTERNET SCAMMERS

Cybercriminals use phishing to scam individ-uals and organizations all over the world out of personal and sensitive information. With a $320,000 grant from the National Science Foun-dation, UB researchers Arun Vishwanath, of the College of Arts and Sciences, and H. Raghav Rao, of the School of Management, are exploring what makes people vulnerable to phishing attacks and how they can be better protected.

RIA ON THE CUTTING EDGE

ADDICTIONS INSTITUTE TACKLES ALCOHOL, DRUG USAGE IN TEENS

Are youths who drink alcohol-laced energy drinks more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior? Is there a link between bullying and substance use in adolescents? Scientists in UB’s Research Institute on Addictions are exploring these critical issues and others in five innovative studies that together received more than $6 million in NIH grant funding.

OUR FORWARD-THINKING

FACULTYJonathan Lovell’s research on chemotherapy nanoballoons had quite the pop this year, but high-impact studies are taking place all over UB. Here are just a few highlights.

CRYSTAL CLEAR

NEXT-GENERATION TECHNOLOGY TO TRANSFORM THE FIELD OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

The next big drug discovery could very well come out of research happening at UB, thanks to a prestigious $25 million Science and Technology Center grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the BioXFEL research center. Headquartered in Buffalo and representing a consortium of eight research institutions, the center will use cutting-edge X-ray free electron laser technology to address fundamental questions in biology at the molecular level.

NO TIME TO WASTE

ALAN RABIDEAU AND THE BATTLE TO RESTORE BROWNFIELDS

Armed with a $796,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, environmental engineer Alan Rabideau is leading an interdis-ciplinary team of researchers in developing new management techniques for the nation’s thousands of hazardous waste sites. Eschewing traditional strategies that focus solely on technologi-cal solutions and cost, the team is developing an integrative approach that will consider the sustainability of potential solutions and their impact on future generations.

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“The pitch competition is part of a growing effort

at UB to promote entrepreneurship,

to realize the promise of UB 2020

and to create an entrepreneurial

ecosystem in Western New York.”

NO NOTES? No problem for the nearly 60 undergraduate and graduate students who took part in UB’s second Elevator Pitch Competition, in April 2014.

The annual event gives students a taste of the real world, where aspiring entre-preneurs must always be ready for chance encounters with potential investors, cus-tomers or business partners. In this case, the “chance encounter” is with a panel of judges that includes real-life entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

Through the competition, students from across the university get to pitch business ideas that provide innovative solutions to real-life challenges. Those who manage to sell their idea in a minute and a half, without relying on any visual aids, can win cash prizes of up to $1,000 supported by the Bruce Holm Memorial Catalyst Fund.

Both of this year’s first-place winners pitched smartphone apps. One, from a team of two computer science undergraduates, would create customized mobile video games for business marketing. The other, pitched by an undergraduate accounting student, would help students focus on their studies by locking them out of their cellphones.

The competition exemplifies the kind of pragmatic learning that is a hallmark of UB’s School of Management, which sponsors the event together with the UB Entrepreneurship Academy and the UB Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR).

YONG LI, ACADEMIC DIRECTOR OF UB’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY

AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT AND

STRATEGY IN THE UB SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

GOING UPElevator pitch competition gives students a taste of real-world entrepreneurship

411. Ready, set, pitch! Contest challenges student entrepreneurs to deliver the perfect elevator pitch

400. Liazon Corporation, ZeptroMetrix to be featured in UB life sciences career panel

401. Law School students to build skills through new Advocacy Institute

402. Ancient Aleuts and large-scale environmental events in the global North

403. Noted Greek novelist, short story writer to open UB’s Exhibit X Fiction Series

404. Winners announced in UB School of Management undergraduate DEAL Expo

405. UB TCIE offers new seminar on how to launch an improvement project for maximum impact

406. UB undergraduates showcase research to SUNY chancellor and elected officials

407. Centuries of global democracy have been provoked by who lived next door

408. Science & Art Cabaret to tackle big data

409. Students demonstrating hands-on wind tunnel and shake table projects join national science access expert Shirley Malcolm Friday in Science Week closing celebration

410. Symposium to commemorate 20th anniversary of Rwandan genocide

412. Guns aren’t the only things killing cops

413. Seven-ton MRI machine to be hoisted seven stories high and installed in UB lab

414. Seminar to teach the basics of saving and investing

415. Noted theologian Diana Hayes to inaugurate Newman Center’s ‘Women Wisdom’ lecture series

416. UB literacy learning specialist chosen for prestigious mid-career award

417. RIA awarded $2.7 million to help improve alcohol treatment strategies

418. Historian Hal Langfur explains how ‘conquered’ indigenous Brazilians shaped their own histories

419. Treadway named to academy on workplace bullying

420. Mazzio named 2014-15 Guggenheim fellow

421. U.S. labor secretary to speak at UB School of Public Health and Health Professions 2014 commencement ceremony

422. UB School of Management certifies third LeaderCORE class

423. New UB MBA program for medical residents is first in New York State and one of few in the nation

424. UB’s Reed-Danahay receives NEH grant

425. Community partnerships invigorate East High School

426. UB’s Plasma series to examine relationship between media art and social activism

427. Refugee Health Summit 2014 to harness power of university- community partnerships to address refugee needs

428. UB elevator pitch competition winners take big ideas to small screens

429. Just in time for Dyngus Day, UB Libraries puts two new Polish collections online

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451. Khalil Mack selected fifth by the Oakland Raiders in the 2014 NFL draft

430. Sustainability dashboard tracks UB’s real-time power consumption

431. Murchie pledges record $3 million gift to UB Athletics

432. Novel compound halts cocaine addiction and relapse behaviors

433. UB to present public reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis on May 21

434. Work underway to ‘transform’ general education

435. Students bank on money skills in financial literacy competition

436. Student excellence in spotlight

437. Splinting, suturing, tooth waxing are on the agenda for Health Sciences Charter School students

438. CCS Oncology donates funds to UB for innovation in patient safety using health information technology

439. Sound artist Ernst Karel to present his work and a public talk at UB May 5

440. Damien David named MAC Player of the Year

441. UB School of Management honors recruiters, interns and supervisors

442. UB graduate student lands elite accounting assistantship

443. Engineer Alexander Cartwright named SPIE fellow

444. UB expertise chosen to digitize national science researchers’ communication

M AY 2 0 1 4

445. “UB in the ’70s: Radical Arts” to be held May 6

446. UB community shares nursing stories

447. UB librarian Fred Stoss receives green education award from the National Library of Aruba

448. Bulls clinch first MAC East title with 2-1 win at Kent State

449. Kuras and Mack headline academic & athletics success celebration

450 Morris elected president of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

452. Making wireless 10 times faster

453. With RENEW, UB researchers are tackling major issues related to energy, water and the environment

454. How businesses can maximize revenue when introducing new products

455. Engineering students, working with Buffalo-area companies, show off their work on Friday

456. Winners named in Verney case competition

457. UB Dental cuts the ribbon as partner in Erie County Health Mall

458. “Lean” management philosophy enables Baker Victory Services to grow work skills training program

459. Tibil and Shkodnik honored by ITA

460. Maynes honored with teaching award

IT’S A MOMENT every college foot-ball player dreams of. Sitting in Radio City Music Hall in New York City, waiting to be picked by an NFL team.

That dream came true for Khalil Mack, as the Bulls phenom became the fifth player selected overall in the NFL draft, joining the storied Oakland Raiders.

UB was the only Division I-A program to offer Mack a scholarship, showing serious foresight. Mack was named a first-team All-American, won the Jack Lambert Award, broke the NCAA record for career forced fumbles and tied the record for ca-reer tackles for loss as he helped lead the Bulls to an 8-5 record en route to the Famous Idaho Po-tato Bowl. None of that is to say his success came easy. “He’s where he’s at today because of the effort he put into it,” noted UB head coach Jeff Quinn.

Mack intends to take the same approach as a pro that he did as a student athlete at UB. “If I wasn’t practicing in the offseason, then I was grinding, grinding, trying to get better,” said the four-year starter. “That’s the mindset I have.”

GUTS AND GLORYAward-winning linebacker Khalil Mack becomes highest drafted player in UB history

More athletic highlights from the past year:

> Under coach Vicki Mitchell, shot-put-ter Jonathan Jones finished fourth at the USATF Outdoor Championships, the highest finish for any Bull in program history

> MAC record-holder Brittney Kuras, coached by Andy Bashor, advanced to the NCAA Championships in swimming

> Coach Trena Peel led UB’s softball team to a program-best 30 wins en route to the MAC championship game

> Coach Felisha Legette-Jack brought women’s basketball to its best season in more than a decade

> Guided by coach Bobby Hurley, Javon McCrea was named MAC men’s basketball player of the year

Khalil Mack gave us a lot to cheer about last year. But every year at UB is filled with fun and excitement, from the back-to-school rituals of Opening Weekend to the massive mud-romp that is Oozefest.

OUR TRUE-BLUETRADITIONS

HAUNTED UNION

It’s not Halloween at UB without a terrifying trip through the Student Union’s spooky maze

OPENING WEEKEND

The Human Interlocking UB, formed this year by 2,300 students, is one of our biggest campus ice-breakers and helps mark the start of the fall semester

WINTERFEST

One of our oldest traditions, Winterfest gets students, faculty and staff outside for cold-weather fun and warm memories

BIG-TIME COLLEGE FOOTBALL

At home games, the festivities begin two hours before kickoff with fun, food and games at Stampede Square, a live concert and the rousing “Walk to Victory”

INTERNATIONAL FIESTA

Through dance, costumes and music, this awe-inspiring show puts the talents of our diverse student body on proud display

OOZEFEST

Students and alumni get down and dirty each year at what has become one of the nation’s largest colle-giate mud volleyball tournaments

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UB’s first group of START-UP NY companies to bring new investment, new jobs to Buffalo

Eight more companies were accepted into the START-UP NY program in July 2014. In the next five years, they’re expected to bring 659 new jobs to Buffalo and invest nearly $10 million in facility/space upgrades and renovations.

A GERMAN life sciences firm. A developer of software for wear-able devices. A company that provides athlete management information systems to profes-sional sports teams.

These are among the first eight businesses selected for START-UP NY, a program in which UB and state officials identify tax-free zones on or near the universi-ty’s three campuses. New and expanding businesses that align with or further UB’s academic mission, and are accepted into the program, pay no New York State taxes for 10 years.

Standing for SUNY Tax-free Areas to Revitalize and Transform Upstate NY, START-UP NY is a statewide program designed to spur economic development. In June 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo

came to Buffalo to announce the eight companies chosen as UB’s inaugural START-UP NY partners. Together, these firms plan to create more than 200 jobs over the next five years, with capital invest-ments totaling nearly $6.4 million.

All of the businesses have strong ties to UB, and plan to strengthen them even further—for example, by partnering with UB institutions like the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (CBLS), collaborating with faculty researchers, recruiting UB graduates and providing student internships. “The Buffalo region is experiencing a rebirth and a new energy not seen in decades,” said Gov. Cuomo. “It is exciting to see START-UP NY contributing to Western New York’s economic revitalization.”

STARTING OFF STRONG

488. Eight companies approved for START-UP NY at UB

461. A summer adventure begins at UB

462. Great-grandmother, a Seneca, earns PhD in transnational studies at UB

463. Three teams with perfect scores highlight latest APR reports

464. UBThisSummer offers summer enrichment, fun activities

465. Going beyond the surface

466. Methadone programs can be key in educating, treating patients with hepatitis C virus infection

467. From hours to minutes: New CUT method reduces time to simulate natural disasters

468. Study shows benefits of mushroom consumption

469. AIANYS honors Shibley for contributions to public architecture in New York State

470. HUD recognizes UB for downtown community outreach programs

471. New space to build community among School of Management undergrads

472. Colleges can’t discount role of drinking in sexual assault

473. UB researchers receive $100K in SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund awards for medical research

474. Schneekloth, Weidemann receive lifetime achievement awards in environmental design

475. UB spinoff Nanobiotix looks to bring cancer treatment to market

476. How long should HCV treatment last? Study suggests answers are complex

477. Increased social network can have big payoff for nonprofits, study shows

478. UB launches online LGBT archive; coincides with Buffalo Pride Festival

479. Vicki Mitchell inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame

480. 20 from UB receive Chancellor’s Awards

481. Infertility: the link with high cholesterol

482. UB’s Buffalo Partnership Project changing the lives of refugee students

483. Graduate students establish new fund to assist future students

484. Students build model Mars rover for NASA-sponsored competition

J U N E 2 0 1 4

485. Therapeutic summer fun helps kids with communication disorders

486. 3 named SUNY Distinguished Professors at UB

487. Kofke named fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers

489. Supreme Court decision clarifies ‘third-party’ infringement of intellectual property rights

490. UB student-athletes earn record GPA for spring 2014

491. Twenty-two outstanding high school students win full, four-year Presidential Scholarships to attend UB

492. Meet the faces of the Buffalo Partnership Project

493. Architecture school playing lead role in urbanism conference

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KIDS ON COFFEEUB researcher among few looking into how caffeine is affecting our youth

IT’S THE MOST POPULAR psycho-active drug in the world, and not only among adults.

Every day, millions of pre-teens and teenagers count on caffeine to kick-start their morning, bring a little buzz to their afternoon or give them an extra boost at night. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that al-most 73 percent of U.S. children and adolescents ingest caffeine in a given day, increasingly via coffee and energy drinks.

And yet, very few studies have considered the effects of the drug on young people.

Jennifer Temple, associate professor in the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at UB’s School of Public Health and Health Professions, is one of the few researchers working in this area. Earlier research by Temple and others has shown that caffeine increases blood pressure and decreases heart rate in children and teens as well as adults. Her most recent study, “Cardiovascular Responses to

Caffeine by Gender and Pubertal Stage,” was published online in the July 2014 edition of the journal Pediatrics. It found that, post-puberty, boys have a greater physiological response to caffeine than girls, and that the response to caffeine in girls varies across the menstrual cycle.

Future studies will look into whether these post-puberty gender differences are a result of physiological factors (such as steroid hormone level) or other causes, like different patterns of caffeine use.

UB faculty frequently reach across disciplines and involve students in high-level research. Co-authors on this paper include:

> Ashley Bendlin, undergraduate student in environmental studies and psychology

> Theresa Sion, undergraduate student in family nursing

> Adam Gracyzk, graduate student in exercise and nutrition sciences

> Karina Vattana, recent graduate of the medical school

> Amanda M. Ziegler, project coordinator for the Nutrition and Health Research Lab

503. Caffeine affects boys and girls differently after puberty, study finds

494. Brittney Kuras named to Academic All-American Third Team

495. Brain traffic jams that can disappear in 30 seconds

496. Paper towels fold in study versus hand dryers

497. Mautner and Burke selected in MLB draft

498. UB President Tripathi joins coalition of higher ed leaders in support of strengthening K-12 curricula

499. UB School of Management programs get boost from anonymous donor

500. UB medical school chair is named section editor of Neurosurgery

501. ‘Don’t let a drop of water touch your mouth’ and other global travel tips

502. New courses enhance the UB School of Management EMBA experience

504. UB receives $4 million NIH grant to study oral health in postmenopausal women

505. UB physician is named medical director of new WNY Center for Survivors of Refugee Trauma and Torture

506. UB vision scientist is elected to board of world’s largest eye research society

507. Workshop rethinks how the law treats human vulnerability

508. UB co-sponsors NY pavilion at BIO International Convention

509. Antibiotic developed 50 years ago may be the key to fighting ‘superbugs’

510. Families grow more comfortable with anatomical gifts: 500 will attend UB memorial service

511. Drug combating severe nausea in pregnancy begins clinical trial

512. UB’s Graduate School of Education provides a new tool for implementing Common Core learning standards

513. UB hosts full SUNY Board of Trustees meeting

514. UB-led health care team to help Jamaica fight HIV and HCV

515. CEL program honors emerging minority and women entrepreneurs

516. Prosperity Scholarship at UB again expands to a record class

517. Former School of Social Work dean receives CSWE Lifetime Achievement Award

518. UB engineering students help GMCH Lockport ‘solve problems’

519. UB professor receives major award for book on democracy, rhetoric and rights

520. Marnie LaVigne named CEO of Launch NY

521. Algae blooms act as bodyguards for bacteria in Great Lakes

522. Jones etches name in record books with 4th place finish at USATF Nationals

523. UB on the Green back for its eighth season

524. Decision to cancel ’Redskins’ patent hits professional, personal chord with UB social work professor

525. Liu to lead learning, assessment efforts

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526. ‘Bad’ video game behavior increases players’ moral sensitivity

527. UB physician receives abstract award for research on Type 1 diabetes and liraglutide

528. UB to honor Arthur Eve by naming Educational Opportunity Center building after him

529. Javon McCrea to play for Dallas Mavericks Summer League Team

530. Fiebelkorn wins prestigious ‘Bowl of Hygeia’ award for community service

531. ‘Master switch’ for myelination in human brain stem cells is identified

532. Hobby Lobby decision will not broadly affect concept of ‘essential health benefits,’ says UB health policy expert

533. UB launches Department of Materials Design and Innovation to boost advanced manufacturing and biotechnology

534. UB named to Princeton Review’s list of ‘Best Value Colleges’ for 2013

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Numbers, like words, tell a story. Whether it’s record enrollment, a surge in faculty hires, graduation rates that far exceed the national average or the largest construction project in our history, our numbers say UB is a university on the move. As we look to our future, we see exciting growth and investment, expanding partnerships, and an unremitting commitment by our faculty, staff, students and alumni to make our university, our community and our world a better place.

OUR IMPACTIN

NUMBERS

A GLOBAL UNIVERSITYOur international perspective shows in everything we

do—from the students we recruit to our innovative

curricula. UB consistently ranks among the nation’s

TOP 20 universities for the enrollment of students

from other countries. Nearly 11 PERCENT of students—

5 TIMES the national average—study abroad.

AN ECONOMIC POWERHOUSEWith annual revenues of almost $1.6 BILLION from

all sources, UB and its affiliated entities generate a

tremendous economic impact in the state and region.

A GROWING COMMUNITYUB added 95 new tenure-track faculty in 2013,

well above our normal hiring rate, while the university

enrolled record numbers of new students: 3,701

freshmen, 1,923 transfer students and 3,658

graduate and professional students.

A WEALTH OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITYWith more than 100 undergraduate and combined degree

programs—and more than 300 graduate and professional

degree programs and certificates—UB offers an extensive

array of academic programs.

ALUMNI AROUND THE WORLDMore than 230,000 UB alumni live in every state

and 130 countries.

A CLEAR PATH TO COMPLETION UB far exceeds the national average for public universities

in graduation rates. The 4-year graduation rate is

52 PERCENT, compared to a national average of 32

percent; the 6-year graduation rate is 72 PERCENT, compared to a national average of 57 percent.

A LOW BURDEN OF DEBTIn the most recent US News and World Report rankings,

UB ranked 1ST among public universities for lowest

student debt. More than half of students graduate

debt-free; the average amount for students who graduate

with debt is $17,425.

NAME > University at Buffalo The State University of New York

AFFILIATION > A flagship institution in the State University of New York system, UB is the largest and most comprehensive campus in the 64-campus SUNY system. It is a member of the Asso-ciation of American Universities.

FOUNDED > 1846

RESEARCH > $388 million

STUDENT BODY > 29,940 (2013-14 academic year) > 19,915 undergraduate > 10,025 graduate and professional

STUDENT BODY > Western New York: 38 percent (2013-14 academic year)

> Other New York: 37 percent > Out-of-State: 3 percent > International (at WNY campuses):

16 percent > External (offshore): 6 percent

DEGREES AWARDED > 7,825 (2013-14 academic year)

DEGREE PROGRAMS > More than 100 undergraduate de-grees, including combined degrees

> More than 300 graduate and professional degree programs

EMPLOYMENT > 6,791 full-time equivalent employees (FY 2013)

FACULTY > 2,830 total faculty > Undergraduate student to

undergraduate instructional faculty ratio: 14 to 1

ALUMNI > 236,507 in 144 countries > More than 129,000 in New York State

ANNUAL BUDGET > Operating revenues: $680 million (FY 2013)

> Financial statement revenues: $1.255 billion (FY 2013)

> UB and affiliated entities revenues: $1.6 billion (FY 2013)

ENDOWMENT > $624.8 million

ATHLETICS > Division I, Mid-American Conference

MASCOT > Victor E. Bull

(GEOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION)

(HEAD COUNT)

AT A GLANCE

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THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

H. Carl McCallChairman

Joseph W. Belluck*Eric CorngoldHenrick N. DulleaRonald G. EhrenbergAngelo M. FattaTina GoodPeter L.K. KnuepferEunice Ashman Lewin*Marshall A. Lichtman*Lori MouldJohn L. Murad Jr.Linda S. SanfordRichard SocaridesCarl SpielvogelCary F. StallerLawrence Waldman

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Nancy L. ZimpherChancellor

Alexander N. CartwrightProvost and Executive Vice Chancellor

William F. HowardSenior Vice Chancellor and General Counsel

Johanna Duncan-PoitierSenior Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges and the Education Pipeline

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO COUNCIL

Jeremy M. Jacobs*Chairman

Mark J. Czarnecki*Vice Chairman

Robert T. BradyMichael W. Cropp*Jonathan A. Dandes*Pamela Davis Heilman*June Williams Hoeflich*Minahil KhanChristopher H. KochChristopher J. O’Brien

EMERITUS MEMBERS

Sheila H. BattleRoger I. BlackwellRandall L. ClarkFrank N. Cuomo*Edmond J. Gicewicz*Gerald S. Lippes*Mary E. RandolphRose H. Sconiers*John N. Walsh III

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

OFFICERS

Satish K. TripathiPresident

Charles F. ZukoskiProvost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

VICE PRESIDENTS AND CABINET MEMBERS

J. Brice BibleChief Information Officer

Dennis R. Black*University Life and Services

Michael E. CainHealth Sciences

Beth Del Genio*Chief of Staff

Venu Govindaraju*Research and Economic Development (Interim)

Laura E. HubbardFinance and Adminis-tration

Nancy E. PatonUniversity Communications

Nancy L. WellsPhilanthropy and Alumni Engagement

Daniel J. WhiteAthletics

DEANS

Arjang A. AssadSchool of Management

Michael E. CainSchool of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Liesl FolksSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Michael L. GlickSchool of Dental Medicine

Jaekyung LeeGraduate School of Education

Marsha L. LewisSchool of Nursing

Makau W. MutuaLaw School

James M. O’DonnellSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

E. Bruce Pitman College of Arts and Sciences

Robert G. ShibleySchool of Architecture and Planning

Nancy J. SmythSchool of Social Work

Jean Wactawski-Wende*Public Health and Health Professions (Interim)

VICE PROVOSTS AND SENIOR ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION**

A. Scott WeberSenior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

H. Austin BoothUniversity Libraries

Stephen C. Dunnett*International Education

Robert J. Genco*Science, Technology Trans-fer and Economic Outreach

Robert GranfieldFaculty Affairs

Mary H. Gresham*Educational Collaboration and Engagement

John T. HoGraduate Education

Lee H. MelvinEnrollment

Teresa A. MillerEquity and Inclusion

Andrew M. StottUndergraduate Education

Sean P. SullivanAcademic Planning and Budget

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION

OFFICERS

Francis M. Letro*Chairman

Gregory M. Bauer*Vice Chairman

Jean C. Powers*Secretary

Robert E. Denning*Treasurer

Edward P. Schneider*Executive Director

TRUSTEES

Ravinder K. BansalGregory M. Bauer*Gary R. BichlerThomas E. Black Jr.*Wayne S. Blank*Robert E. Denning*Beverly Foit-Albert*Judith B. Ittig*Ashok G. Kaveeshwar*Ross B. KenzieWilliam J. MaggioAnthony B. Martino*Gerard T. Mazurkiewicz*Murray S. Rosenthal*Eileen S. Silvers*Keith M. Stolzenburg*Satish K. TripathiMargaret W. Wong*

DIRECTORS

Dianne Bennett*Sheldon M. BerlowHelen M. Cappuccino*Randall L. ClarkDaniel M. HamisterPaul J. HarderRichard E. HeathJeremy M. Jacobs Jr.Francis M. Letro*Jordan A. Levy*James W. McLernon*Jean C. Powers*Ronald M. Schreiber*Marjorie E. Winkler*

EMERITUS TRUSTEES

Sal H. AlfieroRandall I. Benderson*Lawrence P. CastellaniWilliam M.E. ClarksonEllen E. Grant*Mark E. HamisterJeremy M. Jacobs*Reginald Newman IIJohn N. Walsh III

NON VOTING MEMBERS

Michael E. CainLaura E. HubbardNancy L. WellsCharles F. Zukoski

* University at Buffalo alumnus/alumna

** Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives vacant at the time of publication

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