UB The Graduate School
Welcome to the UB Graduate School website, the University at Buffalo's online graduate education and research resource for prospective students, current students, faculty and staff!
The mission of the Graduate School is threefold: to promote and maintain excellence in graduate programs and in the scholarly and creative activities of graduate faculty and students; to stimulate and promote interdisciplinary research and education; and to improve and preserve the academic environment within which graduate education and research occur.
Graduate News & Events
2012 Welcome and Information Fair for Incoming Graduate Students
2011-2012 Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award Winners
The inaugural cycle's winners of the Graduate School's new annual Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award are Dr. Luis Colón, Professor, Department of Chemistry, and Dr. Paschalis Alexandridis, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, for their outstanding and sustained support and development of graduate students through their mentoring activities.
Congratulations to our two award winners!
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| Dr. Paschalis Alexandridis | Dr. Luis Colón |
Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award Program
The Graduate School is pleased to have introduced a new "Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award" program beginning with the 2011-2012 academic year. This award program is designed to honor and publicly recognize exceptional excellence in faculty mentoring of graduate students at UB. Note that the annual winner of the Graduate School's mentoring award will automatically be submitted as UB's sole allowable nominee for that academic year's "Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award" which is administered by the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) every spring.
The criteria for the UB and the NAGS mentoring award programs are essentially the same: Truly outstanding and sustained support and development of graduate students from course completion through research and subsequent career placement. This may be evidenced by providing sound advice with respect to an appropriate course of graduate study and associated course selection; encouraging and facilitating the best possible performance from students; generous giving of time or other measures of mentoring efforts; assisting unlikely or superficially unpromising students through to successful degree completion and subsequent career placement; advising and other assistance regarding the quality and quantity of student papers or other forms of publication and performance; and extraordinary efforts and success with student placements. These criteria are not meant to be exhaustive, but instead to suggest activities that might be demonstrated in a nomination package.
Only those individuals who are currently members of the UB Graduate Faculty and have held faculty appointment at UB for at least 5 years are eligible to be nominated. Each year's award winner will be chosen by a selection committee comprised of faculty and appointed by the Vice Provost for Graduate Education/Dean of the Graduate School. The winner will receive an engraved plaque and a small cash award from the Graduate School and will be publicly recognized at UB's annual "Celebration of Faculty/Staff Excellence" ceremony.
- Prospective Students
- Information for anyone interested in graduate and professional studies at UB.
- Incoming Students
- Information for new UB graduate students, including a checklist for new students.
- Current Students
- Information for current and returning UB graduate and professional students.
- Postdoctoral Scholars
- Information for potential and current postdoctoral scholars and their supervisors.
- Faculty & Staff
- Information for UB faculty and staff who advise and support graduate students.
- Applications
- Apply to the University at Buffalo online.