UB by the Numbers

May 14th, 2010 | Category: Spring 2010

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Students in the Business Consulting Services program within UB’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center have provided more than $210,000 worth of consulting and research services to area ventures and social enterprises in the past three years.

  

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UB alumni can now search through 45 years of The Reporter, the University’s yearbook, online.

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UB has 15 Fulbright award recipients among its current faculty and administrator ranks and hosted its first Fulbright student during the 2009-10 academic year.

  

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UB’s 42 student-run organizations hosted a whopping 825 events last year.

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UB will introduce two new degree programs this fall—a B.A. in International Studies and a B.A. in Environmental Sustainability and Human Ecology—plus one graduate certificate program in strategic management and public accountability systems.

  

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Sixty-four UB law students have traveled to Curaçao in the eight years of the Comparative and International Law Winter Abroad Program, hosted by the University of the Netherlands Antilles.

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One hundred and fifty area high school students came to campus on Oct. 2 for UB’s annual Higher Education Readiness and Orientation for Exceptional Students—or HEROES—Academy, which gives students a taste of college life through special programming. This year, UB hosted the initiative in the spring in addition to the traditional fall event.

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Nearly 100 actors took the stage as part of the Spotlight UB performing arts series in 2009. View upcoming Spotlight UB events.

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Sixty new trees will soon be planted in the landscape phase of UB’s current streetscaping program, enhancing UB’s green space while creating a more welcoming and defined urban campus.

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UB’s undergraduate students have the option of adding one of nine new minors—business management, creative writing, economics and public policy, entrepreneurship, marketing communications, popular culture, psychology, security and network administration, and social entrepreneurship—to their studies.

  

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