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Raymond Matuszak

Hutch-Tech Access Scholarship receipient Raymond Matuszak is proud to wear his high school class ring. “I think most people wear their class rings in high school and retire them once they get to college, but I’m still wearing mine.”

Sara Calleri

Last summer, History major Sara Calleri was able to travel abroad to make a direct impact - not only unearthing history, but by making history, saving artifacts that would have otherwise been lost forever.

Amanda Diamond

Now in her senior year, Amanda, a Biological Sciences major is immersed in exciting research in plant physiology. Thanks to donor support, Amanda received a scholarship enabling her to focus on her research.

Donell Newkirk

Thanks to funding from the Annual Fund, Donell was selected to be one of 22 UB students provided with financial support enabling him to attend the UB Coast to Coast Alumni Entertainment and Media Symposium.

Aaron Krolikowski

Since his first days at UB, Aaron has been finding his voice and making his mark. “My parents raised me to strive for excellence, but it was UB that cultivated the foundation they gave me.”

Scholarship is music to UB student's ears

A music performance major, Stafford was awarded UB's Millonzi Distinguished Honors Scholarship, which covers four years of study at UB.

Faculty

UB Biologists Discover Enzyme Degrades Protein that Suppresses or Promotes Cancer

This is the first study to show that treatment of cultured cancer cells with chemotherapeutic drugs can cause destruction of the Wilms' tumor 1 by an enzyme called HtrA2/Omi," says Stefan Roberts, PhD, assistant professor of biological sciences.

Claude Welch

Claude E. Welch, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science - The responsibility to act when it comes to spreading and upholding human rights falls on everyone.

William Pelham

William E. Pelham Jr., UB Distinguished Professor in the departments of Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, is one of the leading experts in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Sean Bennett

Predicting where soil erosion occurs—and thus how to prevent it—is a serious challenge. That’s why UB geographer Sean Bennett has constructed various systems to model it.

Vasiliki Neofotistos

"I'm interested in questions of power in societies, conflict resolution and policy making," says Neofotistos, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology.

Matthew Disney

Matthew Disney's (Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry) research shows that rational drug design can greatly expedite the discovery of new drugs that could be effective against RNA-mediated diseases, such as myotonic dystrophy.

Doreen Wackeroth

Doreen Wackeroth, associate professor of physics, used funding from the education and outreach portion of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to launch the Physics & Arts Summer Institute.

Alumni

Harvey Karp

Dr. Harvey Karp '72 is a world renowned child development expert and America’s most read pediatrician. His work has literally revolutionized our understanding of the needs of young children.

Laura Aikin

Laura Aikin, BFA ’86, is considered to be a leader among today’s sopranos, gracing the world’s opera and concert stages—including the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and La Scala Milan—with her three-octave voice and arresting stage presence.

Richard Kurin

Though he has worked closely with people as distinguished as Yo-Yo Ma, the Dalai Lama and the Aga Khan, Richard Kurin BA '72 is, at heart, a humble anthropologist—a broker who brings people together to enrich cultural knowledge.

Robert Murrett

Robert Murrett BA '75 is director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which provides images of the earth in support of national security.

Nicole Lee

In the past year, Nicole Lee BA'00 & J.D. '02 has focused on educating lawmakers and the public on the dangers of further militarization in Africa, as well as on some of the unintentionally negative effects of our government’s war on drugs.

Donors

Donors' Gift Establishes Institute for Jewish Thought & Heritage at UB

A gift from attorney and UB alum Gordon Gross and his wife, Gretchen, creates an endowed professorship in the Institute for Jewish Thought & Heritage.

Rustgi Family Gift Provides Physics Professorship to UB

Brothers Vinod K. Rustgi, M.D., and Anil K. Rustgi, M.D., along with their mother, Kamla Rustgi, honored their father's memory by endowing the Moti Lal Rustgi Professorship in the Department of Physics

Robert and Carol Morris

Over the past several years, the Morrises have funded a new sports performance center at UB, the Department of Music and its Robert G. and Carol L. Morris Center for 21st Century Music, UB 2020’s “strategic strength” in artistic expression and performing arts, the Humanities Institute, and an emergency scholarship fund for undergraduates in the arts and sciences.

Alumni Siblings Donate Art to UB

The University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences has received a steel and slate sculpture from alumni Sharon Bob Young, B.A. '71, and her brother Richard Bob, B.S. '67, to honor their parents, Isadore and Ruth Bob.

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