Alumni News

Jun Zhuang received the volunteer service award from INFORMS
UB takes home four awards at the 2018 INFORMS conference
12/31/18
Faculty and students from UB’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering received four awards at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting and Analytics Conference.
Bradley Cheetham was the featured guest in the Blackstone LaunchPad’s “How I Built This” series.
Space advocate returns to UB
11/16/18

UB alum and entrepreneur Bradley Cheetham came back to campus to share best practices for starting and maintaining a successful business.

Dual-Diploma ITU students at the 2018 Pledge to Professionalism/Engineer of the Year Ceremony
Dual Diploma Program between UB and Istanbul Technical University celebrates 10 years
10/25/18
In 2005, a group of ten students traveled over 5,000 miles from their home country of Turkey to study at UB. The cohort came with a unique goal: to participate in the Dual Diploma Program, a partnership between the University at Buffalo’s Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering and Istanbul Technical University (ITU).
UB EWB members in the field in Nicaragua
UB Engineers Without Borders students work to bring clean water to Nicaraguan community
10/15/18
“It was the most beautiful place I have ever been to. From the top of the hills, we could see miles and miles of mountains, trees and coffee bushes,” said Aaron Chaney, secretary of Engineers Without Borders and a student in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.
Portrait photo of Victor Bahl
Victor Bahl helps Microsoft—and students—succeed in today’s technological world
5/15/18

This year's distinguished alumnus graduate commencement ceremony speaker, Victor Bahl, is director of mobility and networking research in Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research division, a member of Microsoft’s Redmond Lab Leadership Team, and co-founder of a non-profit organization, Computing For All, which he began with his wife, Ritu.

Portrait of Gina Lee-Glauser
For Gina Lee-Glauser, small talk is a big deal for underrepresented STEM students
5/11/18

As a child, one of Gina Lee-Glauser’s (MS ’88, BS ’82) dreams was to become an astronaut. But today, the 2018 SEAS Dean's Award winner has a different mission: helping underrepresented and underprepared students achieve their dreams of graduating college.