“Retirement is not leaving your passions behind. It’s just moving to other areas where you can use your talents,” says Hunter. For this educator and activist, those passions and talents revolve around health care, learning and community engagement.

Marcus Yam, BS ’06, graduated from UB with a degree in aerospace engineering—and then took a very different career path, becoming one of the top photographers in journalism today.

Gale Burstein, MD ’90, takes the lead at Erie County’s Health Department just as the opioid addiction crisis sweeps across the country and into Western New York. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, and on average, someone dies in Erie County every day.

Buffalo News food critic Andrew Galarneau sat down with four UB alumni who are local restaurant owners for the dish on how our city’s restaurant scene has grown and where it’s headed.