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Students participate in a sustainability forum, one of the many ways in which the UB community keeps its pulse on topics and issues in sustainability.

There’s a lot happening in sustainability at UB. Visit this page for the latest news and updates.

UB schools among the best in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings
4/9/24
The rankings are in! Several schools at UB, New York’s flagship, are ranked among the top nationwide in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings.
Scientists create nanoshell catalyst to capture methane emissions
4/2/24
A UB-led research team is developing new catalysts that aim to turn climate-warming methane emissions - the second most abundant greenhouse gas and the primary component of natural gas - into useful commercial products, such as chemical feedstocks .
Sustainability Month at UB celebrates success, work yet to be done
4/2/24
Sustianability Month at UB is about celebrating our faculty, staff, and student work in making progress towards the goals of our university-wide Climate Action Plan.
UB awarded $1.25 million to create clean energy research hub
4/2/24
UB has been named a recipient of a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop technology to improve on the U.S.'s emerging clean energy economy. In addition to these technological developments, the new Center for Accelerated Innovation through Materials hub will support workforce training and fund graduate student research.
UB Singapore students win geospatial competition with food waste research
3/21/24
First-year students enrolled in UB’s geographic information science (GIS) program at Singapore Institute of Management have earned the top prize in an international geospatial science competition for their work mapping food waste across the island nation.
UB TCIE secures $300,000 to support offshore wind industry in NYS
3/19/24
The UB Center for Industrial Effectiveness (UB TCIE) received a $300,000 grant from the New York State Offshore Wind Training Institute (OWTI) for the project "Preparing NYS’s Renewable Energy and Offshore Wind Supply Chain." Its goal is to promote careers in New York’s supply chain workforce for offshore wind and other renewable energy and sustainability sectors such as solar, green building, and nanotechnology.

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