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UB is partnering with Kaleida Health on a new downtown facility.
Major construction projects mirror UB 2020 progress
Changing Campus Landscape
Story by Arthur Page
UB IS MOVING FORWARD with more than $350 million in construction and renovation projects in the first phase of a dramatic physical transformation on a scale not seen since the North Campus was built in Amherst during the 1970s. Funded by New York State during previous years’ budget cycles, with additional support from private donors, the work includes four major construction projects that are physical manifestations of the ongoing implementation of the UB 2020 strategic plan.
A new engineering building is set for the North Campus.
Ground was broken on August 3 for a 10-story building being constructed by UB and Kaleida Health, a public-private endeavor advancing UB’s plans to expand its academic and clinical health sciences programs in downtown Buffalo. Located next to Buffalo General Hospital, the facility, opening in late 2011, will bring together Kaleida Health physicians and UB researchers. It will house UB’s Center for Clinical and Translational Research and a UB Bioscience Incubator, as well as Kaleida Health’s global vascular institute.
Ground will be broken next summer for EOC's new home.
Also planned for the Downtown Campus is a new home for UB’s Educational Opportunity Center (EOC), which provides educational job training, college preparation and related support services to economically and academically disadvantaged populations in Western New York. Groundbreaking is slated for next summer. When completed, it will be connected by an atrium to the former M. Wile building to form the UB Downtown Gateway Complex at 77 Goodell St., providing the Buffalo-Niagara community with greater access to UB’s academic and community programs and resources.
Kapoor Hall will open in 2012 on the South Campus.
To be constructed on the North Campus is a state-of-the-art classroom and laboratory building for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Ground was broken in April for the new home for UB Engineering’s departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering. It is slated for completion in 2011.
Slated to open in 2012 is Kapoor Hall on the South Campus, a new home for the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, which will be the first UB professional school to relocate back to the City of Buffalo since construction of the North Campus. Named for John N. Kapoor, PhD ’72, a visionary leader in the pharmaceutical industry, the facility will provide state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities for programs in pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical sciences.
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UB in the News
New York Times
SUNY weighs the value of Division I sports
An article in the New York Times looks at the advantages and disadvantages SUNY schools have encountered as they upgrade their athletic programs to compete with other major public institutions at the Division I level. UB is mentioned as having led the way to Division I in 1991 and the football team played a bowl game for the first time in January, but the path has not been as smooth for other SUNY campuses. The article quotes former UB president William H. Greiner and UB athletic director Warde Manuel.
New York Times
UB photographer says a rephotograph lifts the illusion that time stops
UB's Doug Levere, photographer in University Communications, is quoted in a New York Times article about the changing urban landscape of New York City.
USA Today
Government downsizing may result in a dangerous concentration of power, expert says
An article in USA Today about efforts in Western New York to downsize local governments and the wave of national frustration over big government that was illustrated this year by raucous town-hall style meeting over health care reports a study by UB's Regional Institute concluded that if every municipality in Erie County cut two legislators, the savings would be "negligible," less than $4 per person a year in most cases. The article quotes Kathryn Foster, director of the Regional Institute.