Throughout it’s 21-year history, the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) Core program at the University at Buffalo School of Management has never seen as large a graduating class as this year. Forty-six Western New York business owners, operators, and high-level managers graduated on June 3rd and will soon be implementing CEL training in their respective business corporations.Started in 1987, the CEL program promotes economic and business growth in Western New York by developing individual business leaders’ expertise and experience. The program’s impact is apparent too – nearly 700 CEL alumni employ more than 22,000 Western New Yorkers, and their businesses…
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A symbol of Buffalo’s ethnic heritage, Saint Adalbert Basilica has remained a religious center since its construction in the 1880’s. And now it’s time to celebrate it – on June 13th, Saint Adalbert Basilica, along with Broadway Fillmore Alive, will be hosting a special tour of America’s First Basilica.Originally planned to conduct its last service in November of 2007, Saint Adalbert has stayed an active church as parishioners filed an appeal to the Vatican to reverse the ordered closure. The upcoming tour is meant to draw attention to the Basilica and parish’s ongoing efforts to save it. As Christopher Byrd of…
As a sequel to their first event in May, Allentown artists will again be hosting a First Fridays Gallery Walk, and this time with even more galleries on board.Definitely wear your Aerosoles for this night of gallery-hopping between 17 participating galleries, this time including Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Starlight Studio and Art Gallery, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, El Museo, Merge, and Gallery 164. Click here for a map!Artspace Buffalo GalleryUrban Sensuality: Textures & TonesArt and poetry exhibition with performances, music, and dinner1219 Main Street5-10 PMBuffalo Big PrintPatrick WillettWatercolor and Environmental Watercolors and Mixed Media Paintings (through June 20)78 Allen Street6-9 PMB…
Just like domestic animals; the furry, feathered and scaled residents at the Buffalo Zoo require and receive the same quality of care on a regular schedule, and now, thanks to the zoo’s recent Show Us Your Stripes campaign, the zoo’s in-house veterinary hospital is better equipped to deal with resident animal health. The Buffalo Zoo Hospital was considered state-of-the-art when it opened in 1967 but was badly outdated by 2007, when the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians updated the standards and told the zoo that renovating the hospital was a must. The renovations, which cost approximately $1.5 million, expanded the…
Eureka! Age-long neurological disorders have finally met their match. University at Buffalo researchers, led by Michal Stachowiak, Ph.D., director of the Molecular and Structural Neurobiology and Gene Therapy, have identified a new mechanism that plays a central role in adult brain stem cell development and prompts brain stem cells to differentiate into neurons. The research team set out to see if it is possible to generate a wave of new neurons from stem cells and direct them to the affected areas using a mouse model. Their discovery, known as Integrative FGFR1 Signaling (INFS), has fundamentally challenged the prevailing ideas of…