Business Engagement News

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Early-bird pricing available for select business improvement courses
7/16/19

The classes are part of a fall inventory of open-enrollment business improvement courses for professionals.

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Ogechi Ogoke, 24, on his appetite for entrepreneurship
6/26/19
An article in Business First features Ogechi Ogoke, a UB student pursuing a PhD in chemical engineering, who won UB’s 2018-19 Western New York Prosperity Fellowship and founded a company that won the prestigious Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition.
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Two-day course explores AI capabilities for business
6/26/19

The class will be led by David Doermann, director of UB's Artificial Intelligence Institute, who recently testified before Congress.

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Batta named interim engineering dean
6/24/19

A UB faculty member since 1984, Batta previously served as acting/interim dean in 2011-12.

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Alum Anne-Fleur Andrle launches business travel app Jack and Ferdi
6/21/19
Anne-Fleur Andrle (MS Biomedical engineering ’13) had a problem: for years, she traveled extensively for her job as a medical applications engineer in medical imaging, finding herself with a well-stamped passport but little to show for it besides jet lag and a thorough reading of her hotel’s room service menu.
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Tech giants award UB $150,000 to bring ethics into computer science classes
6/18/19

Ethics in curriculum will be a requirement as opposed to an afterthought, organizers say.