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  • UB Alumnus is Mayor of Kabul
    1/30/19

    Ahmad Zaki says UB's Urban Planning program prepared him to address the social landscape of urban planning and, ultimately, to guide change in Kabul

  • UB celebrates 175th anniversary of its origins in medicine
    5/28/21

  • Held in the nation’s center of political power, the presentation of this year’s 2022 Edwin F. Jaeckle Award drew from the highest echelons of the bench and bar.

  • When Race and Space Converge
    1/30/19
    Dexter Johnson, PhD is a NASA technical fellow, a minister, entrepreneur and frequent motivational speaker as “Dr. Dex.”
  • Why I left my high-profile job at Twitter
    3/11/19
    Joel Lunenfeld, BA ’99, was the vice president of global brand strategy at Twitter. Then, at the age of 40, he left it all to operate a gym for underserved kids in his community. Here’s why.