Rent UB Facilities, Equipment

Rent Facilities for Events and Meeting Spaces

Make your next event memorable and easy to manage. Rent facilities, on campus, that meet your special event needs.

• For help in planning your event and locating spaces on campus, contact the Office of Special Events.
  William Regan at wjregan@buffalo.edu or 716-645-6148.
• For catering information, contact Three Pillars Catering at ub-catering@buffalo.edu or 716-645-6549.
• To rent spaces in the Center for the Arts, contact 716-645-0891.

Testing Labs and Technical Facilities

Create and maintain product quality by using UB's specialized facilities and equipment to test your products. Fees are determined by the individual units.

Biological

• The UB North Campus Imaging Facility is home to a laser-scanning confocal microscope that provides users with highly detailed images of fluorescent samples. Contact Alan Siegel at ajsiegel@buffalo.edu or 716-645-4961

Chemical

• The Chemistry Instrumentation Center offers mass spectrometry to identify, characterize and quantify chemicals, including failure analysis, isolation of components and product characterization. Clients include IIMAK, Multisorb Technologies, Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems and Kinex. Contact Alice Bergmann at Bergmann@buffalo.edu or 716-645-4120.

Material/Structural

• The Integrated Nanostructured Systems Instrumentation Facility supports nanostructured systems research, as well as related physics, engineering and materials research. Contact Mark Swihart at insdirector@buffalo.edu or 716-645-1181 regarding the following instruments and facilities:
  • High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility
  • The Clean Room Facility
  • Cryogenics Facility
  • Electron Beam Lithography Facility
  • Device Bonding

• The South Campus Instrumentation Center tests materials (including: metals, ceramics, microelectronics, dental implants, soil samples and archaeological items) for quality control and assurance, assisting with product development and testing. Contact Peter Bush, director, at pjbush@acsu.buffalo.edu or 716-829-3561.

• The Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory provides shake tables and test floors that simulate earthquakes for testing structures and equipment. Contact Andrew Whittaker at awhittak@buffalo.edu or 716-645-4364.

Pharmaceutical

• The Pharmaceutical Sciences Instrumentation Facilities are a combination of facilities (see following list) and researchers who perform biopharmaceutical analysis, working in the fields of pharmacodynamics, pharmacogentics/genomics, drug transport and metabolism, protein therapeutics and drug delivery. In addition to research and expertise, UB provides instrument training. Regarding the following facilities, contact: Robert M. Straubinger at rms@buffalo.edu or 716-645-2844.

• Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LCMS)
• Circular Dichroism Facility
• DSC/TGA (calorimetry) Facility
• Fluorescence Facility
• Pharmaceutical Genetics Laboratory (PGL)
• Computational Facilities

• The Proteomics and Biopharmaceutical Analysis Core helps shape analytical strategies in instrumentation, sample processing and data analysis. Research includes small-molecule analytes, protein expression profiling and quantification of proteins/peptides. Contact Robert M. Straubinger at rms@buffalo.edu or 716-645-2844.