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  • A Family Affair
    12/23/21
    Tilmon Brown, BA ’93, BS ’93, promised his parents that he would get a degree from UB. 30 years later he fulfilled that promise and is helping other UB students do the same.
  • A Pathway to Hope
    3/30/21
    Margie Hempling McGlynn has endowed a professorship in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences to find holistic solutions for rare genetic diseases.
  • Finding Purpose in Poetry
    3/30/21
    Dan Liberthson’s, PhD ’76, BA’74, love of language inspired him to support his passions at UB.

  • Visiting professor Michael Mwenso says he feels “very fortunate to be at UB and the Arts Collaboratory...and teach about Black music and how it can empower your life and make you be a deeper human being.”

  • Seizing the Moment
    9/7/22
    From Malaysia to Afghanistan to Ukraine and beyond, Marcus Yam burrows into stories as a roving foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.