If you’re interested in mentored research or community projects, but don’t know where to start, attend a 1-hour Project Workshop hosted by the Experiential Learning Network. The workshop is designed to help you assess your current skills and areas for growth, explore potential projects and start one that aligns with your goals. At the end, you will be on your way to beginning a mentored project and earning a digital badge to display new skills and accomplishments on your resume or portfolio. Learn more or sign up to attend a workshop in early November!
Starting your own consulting business can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be confusing.
Clarity: We’ll nail down the services you offer, how much to charge, who you offer them to, and why you’re their obvious choice
Process: Focus on doing what you love by implementing routines, apps and services to streamline your business process
Branding & Marketing: You’ll learn how to position yourself, provide value to your audience and perform “passive prospecting” through in-person events & podcasts
Pitching & Proposals: I’ll supply you with training and templates to make this part simple, pain-free and predictable
Fulfillment: From onboarding to relationship management, I’ll teach you how to deliver on the promises you made to your client, and yourself.
You’ll walk away with a brand and business that will provide you with the lifestyle, time and financial freedom that comes from designing your career on your own terms.
Do you have an idea for a business hidden somewhere in your notes app? Have you and a friend plotted out the next big startup but find yourself stuck on what to do next?
Start here to turn that idea into a reality.
The LaunchPad Ideas Competition could give you the funding and support you need to see if you really might be onto something.
The competition is completely virtual, hosted now through October 21st, where you apply to compete in one of 4 tracks: Social and Climate Impact: sustainability, education, human rights, poverty alleviation, racial and social justice, etc. Health & Life Sciences: biotech, health & medical science, healthcare Consumer Products & Services General
Join this interactive activity in which participants will experience different levels of hunger and learn about the statistics regarding worldwide hunger.
Participants will walk away having a greater understanding of food shortage issues and what they can do to help raise awareness of this global problem.
Christopher Rea is Professor of Asian Studies and former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. His latest book, Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949 (Columbia, 2021), discusses fourteen cinematic masterpieces. In addition to the book, Rea created a series of online film resources, including chinesefilmclassics.org and the YouTube channel Modern Chinese Cultural Studies, which features 25+ subtitled films and an online course on Chinese film history. His other books include the Levenson Prize-winning The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (California, 2015), The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection (co-translated with Bruce Rusk; Columbia, 2017), and Where Research Begins (co-authored with Tom Mullaney; Chicago, 2022).
Abstract: Critics gave Disney’s Mulan (2020) mixed reviews, but they didn’t burn it in the streets. That was the fate of not one, but two prints of the live-action Hua Mu Lan (1939) in wartime Chungking. Released during war against Japan, the film’s resistance allegory failed to mollify viewers who considered the filmmakers to be collaborationist traitors. Yet despite the controversy, the Mandarin-language film became a box-office hit across war-torn Asia, and was soon competing in theaters against a Cantonese remake.
This talk discusses the history, aesthetics, and politics of Hua Mu Lan, the earliest-known surviving Mulan film. Christopher Rea argues that the film’s charismatic star and its mix of genre elements, such as comedy, singing, and romance, won over audiences and censors alike. Hua Mu Lan’s reception is a story of artistic talent, political savvy, and producer resourcefulness re-packaging a legend to suit desperate times. Rea will further explore how heritage figures like Mulan are repurposed to suit present commercial and societal/ideological needs, from recent Disney iterations back a century to the 1920s, when the woman warrior was played by both China’s most famous female impersonator (a man playing a woman playing a man), and its first licensed aviatrix.
UB’s Blackstone LaunchPad has been granted $4,000 to award to students as part of the LaunchPad Ideas Competition.
The competition is completely virtual,hosted now through October 21st, where students apply to compete in one of 4 tracks:
Social and Climate Impact: sustainability, education, human rights, poverty alleviation, racial and social justice, etc.
Health & Life Sciences: biotech, health & medical science, healthcare
Consumer Products & Services
General
The winners from each of the 4 tracks will received $1,000 and invitation to represent UB in the network round where they have an opportunity to compete for $10,000 in the various tracks.
I’m reaching out to invite your team to support this initiative by:
Leveraging your listserves, newsletters, and social media to amplify this opportunity for students; and
Make available any opportunities to engage with students through pop-up events, tabling, and/or passive digital/static signage.
This is a great opportunity to provide our students an avenue to impact change. Bonus – if UB recruits the greatest number of ideas submitted, we’ll win $10,000 for our campus and most importantly bragging rights.
We’re competing with schools in the following bracket:
University of Central Florida
Texas A&M University
New York University UT Austin
USC UCLA
College of Southern Nevada
UT Arlington
UC Berkeley
Temple University
UC Davis
UC San Diego
UC Irvine
University at Buffalo
UT San Antonio
UT Dallas
Thanks much for your consideration and I welcome your ideas to partner with UB’s LaunchPad in hosting this program. Please contact me to coordinate efforts.
Gather with members of the LGBTQ FSA on Zoom for a panel conversation with guests from two local organizations about accountability partnership towards abolition and the movement for multiracial justice.
Josie Diebold MSW ’18, PhD Candidate, School of Social Work
Erin Heaney, National Director, Showing Up for Racial Justice
Natalia Marte JD ’20, Advisory Board Chair, Black Love Resists in the Rust
Athena Matua, Professor, School of Law
About BLRR and SURJ:
Black Love Resists in the Rust (BLRR) is a member-led, abolitionist organization of Black folks and POC that believes – through leadership development, a shared politic, and community organizing – we will build safe and flourishing communities that resist the ills of white supremacist, cis-heteropatriarchal, capitalism; including policing.
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national network organizing white people against white supremacy. At SURJ, we’re working towards a world where every community has what they need to not just survive, but to thrive. We believe we get there by working together and following the leadership of communities that directly experience racism and economic injustices. And we believe white people have an important role to play. The local SURJ chapter is SURJ Buffalo.
The Brown Bag Conversation series are casual opportunities to learn and engage, open to members of the UB community. This specific event is also open to the public and is in collaboration with the Professional Staff Senate Inclusion and Diversity Committee, Office of Inclusive Excellence, and Minority Faculty and Staff Association.
Join us for this UB Trippin’ event where you can go apple picking and explore the Smith’s Orchard! Students will be provided a bag to pick apples, as well as an admission ticket to grab some free and delicious hot apple cider, donuts and cider slushies, courtesy of Smith’s Orchard!
Check-in will begin in the Student Union lobby at 11:30 a.m. Buses will depart from the Student Union at 12:00 p.m. and students can return to the buses to depart for campus between 4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. in order to return to the Student Union by 5:00 p.m.
Join Student Engagement for an on-campus service activity to jar UB Bees honey to be donated and distributed through Blue Table.
UB Bees is an on-campus organization working to educate the UB and WNY communities about the benefits of having bees in our ecosystems. Find out more information about how to get involved from this website.
Blue Table is an on-campus food pantry open to any individual with a UB ID. The pantry is located on the second floor of the student union. Find out more information about how to get involved here.
Dates and Times: Wed., Sept. 29 from 3 – 5 p.m. Location: 145 A Student Union
