Recent Events

Students Attend UB NCAA Basketball Game--November, 2008

pictured are Xin Liu and Cheng Zhong of China  click here  additional photo

Students Celebrate Halloween                                              

pictured above (l-r): Jue, Wen Han, Zhong Wei, Cliff, Wei, Rocky, and Shao Wen.

Students Exercising in Seaside Park

 pictured are Jue, Wei, and Cliff

Level 6 Graduation October 2008 

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Level 5B Debate Participants August 2008    photo 2  

 Level 5A Debate Team Members

ELI "Olympics" Skit August 2008

Students Celebrate ELI Graduation in University Student Center. October, 2007.

Pictured here are: front (l-r) American students Miriam and Mike with new ELI friends Teajal and Deepali (India), Elva Ma (China), Hinalben (India), Arthur Sha (China), back row (l-r) Jason Zhang (China), Dennis (China), Steven M. Rashba (Instructor), Youssef (Morocco) and Howard (China).

ELI Students Performing Graduation Skit

ELI Student Debate Team Level 5B, Feb. 2008

ELI Graduation On March 7, 2008

To see Photos from recent graduation ceremonies, please click on the links.

• Recent graduates Carlos Lopez (Columbia), Sabine Anedong (Cameroon), and Lu Zhang (China)
• Current multicultural class.

Aybike Ozkok (Turkey), Ahmed Ismail (Egypt), Aihua Jin (China), Sagar Limbachia (India), Pu-Sheng (Paul) Ni (Taiwan), Meltem Senocak (Turkey), Hsuan-Tse Tseng (Taiwan), Ruotan Wang (China), Xu Wang (China), and Ichie Yoshida (Japan).

• Students Enjoy Trip To New Haven (March, 2008)& New Haven Trip 2  & Irina Leonova at Yale University  -click here

ELI Level 5 Debate of April, 2008  

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ELI Graduation of May 2, 2008

Level 6 B new graduates (from left to right) Paritshit Parmar, Guan Wang, Chen Qu, Binit Patel, Snehalben Patel, Instructors Waneen White and Steven M. Rashba, Ramkrishna Patel, Keyuri Patel, Xin Shi, and Shujin Qu.

ELI Level 5 Skit of May 2, 2008

Level 5 student-performers Payal Patel, Qiong Xue, Jian Wang, Yuting Zhao, Jianren Qiu, Ji Yun Lee, Nishank Patel, Yu, and HuaYi.

• ELI's "Snow White" eats the apple
• ELI's "performers" pose with Assistant Director Mike Lockshier and Director Catherine Misseri

ELI Students Visit Barnum Museum May 23, 2008

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ELI Level 5 Debate of June 11,2008

(pictured l-r Li Qi, Barbara Niemczyk, Catherine Misseri, Meltem Senocak, Ichie Yoshida, Mike Lockshier, Ahmed Ismail, and Chengxin Zhang)

photo provided by Paul Pu-Sheng Ni       click here

ELI Graduation of June 27, 2008  

Instructors K.L. Howling and Marcia Bratcher with new graduates       click here

ELI graduates with ELI staff      click here

ELI Students Enjoy Bridgeport Bluefish Baseball Game July 25, 2008

Pictured are Suhalie Velez (Puerto Rico), Bill Guan and Grace Shi (China)  click here

Pictured are Huseyin Imamoglu and Sant Kosun (Turkey) with Zakaria Hassan (Yemen) and "American" Mike Lockshier click here (photo by Thierry Siek)