UB 2020: University at Buffalo's strategic plan

UB 2020University at Buffalo’s strategic plan

Photo of faculty and students walking on UB's South Campus.

What is UB 2020?

10/25/12

UB 2020 is our plan for enhancing educational opportunities for our students, advancing research discoveries that improve life for people throughout the world and increasing UB’s economic impact on our region and New York State.

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Research Collaborations

10/25/12

Our research makes a difference in lives across the globe. The Strategic Strengths initiative brings together faculty from across disciplines, broadening our societal impact.

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An illustrated map depicting UB's three campuses and their connectivity.

Improving Our Campuses

10/25/12

Our campus master plan is helping us create great places for a greater university from classrooms, labs and libraries to dining halls, student housing and recreational facilities. Explore our vision of a premier 21-century public research university. And help us make it happen.

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Transforming Operations

10/25/12

UB is strategically transforming the delivery of academic support services across the university. More efficient delivery of services better supports academic excellence and creates savings that are being invested in our academic mission.

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A group of students walking near Baird Point on UB's North Campus.

Realizing UB 2020

1/8/13

Realizing UB 2020 articulates UB’s mission and vision, provides planning context, focuses on institutional goals and values, and outlines several strategies which will lay the foundation for unprecedented university growth.

1/18/13 Learn more about Realizing UB 2020

UB 2020 is a far-reaching plan for our continued growth as a world-class public research university.

NYSUNY 2020

Governor Andrew Cuomo shakes hands with SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher upon signing the NYSUNY 2020 bill.

Learn About Recent Progress

Funds resulting from the landmark NYSUNY 2020 legislation are making a tremendous impact for critical elements of UB’s 2020 plan.

Our Impact

10/25/12

The Stem Cell Culture and Analysis Center established by Molecular Recognition in Biological Systems and Bioinformatics is an innovative facility to store, maintain and create stem cells.
10/25/12

Research in Integrated Nanostructured Systems has led to a way to commercially produce graphene, a resilient material with potential to revolutionize materials engineering.
10/25/12

Faculty in Extreme Events: Mitigation and Response are training Haitian engineers and architects to construct buildings better able to withstand devastating events like the 2010 earthquake.
10/25/12

Faculty affiliated with Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan are teaching pharmaceutical scientists in Zimbabwe and Nigeria to conduct clinical trials and research on HIV/AIDS.
10/25/12

Artistic Expression and Performing Arts hosts “June in Buffalo,” an annual, internationally acclaimed festival and conference for emerging composers of new music.
10/25/12

Cultures and Texts supports research in the humanities, hosted the annual North American James Joyce Conference and sponsors and organizes a variety of engaging seminars, lectures and workshops.
10/25/12

The Civic Engagement Research Fellowship Program has supported community-based research projects in Western New York, as well as in Ontario, Canada; Alaska and sub-Saharan Africa.

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What's New

Crossroads Culinary Center

10/25/12

The Crossroads Culinary Center (C3 for short) is UB’s newest residential dining facility.
John and Editha Kapoor Hall

10/25/12

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has a state-of-the-art new home on the South Campus.
Clinical and Translational Research Center

10/25/12

A joint project of UB and Kaleida Health, the CTRC links clinical care and teaching with research and commercial application in the health sciences and is one of a handful of such facilities in the nation.

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our STRATEGIC STRENGTHS

Information and Computing Technology

1/15/13

Advances in computing affect progress in every area of society. Capitalizing on our research, this strength is helping to create a vibrant research community and discover tomorrow's next technological breakthrough.
Integrated Nanostructured Systems

1/28/13

Enabling collaborations in nanoscience and nanotechnology and areas where innovation can revolutionize our world.
Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan

1/15/13

Living a healthy life into one’s 10th decade is the central focus of this strength. Our goal is to facilitate discoveries greatly impacting human health.
Cultures and Texts

10/25/12

Bringing together research on race, gender, poetics, aesthetics and other aspects of history, language, literature, art and culture, this strength explores the human condition.
Extreme Events: Mitigation and Response

10/25/12

With our structural engineering and geohazard studies research, UB is working to make our world a safer place in the event of disasters.
Civic Engagement and Public Policy

1/18/13

Advancing research and scholarship to address social and policy challenges, persistent inequalities and sharing that research with scholars, community leaders and policy makers.
Molecular Recognition in Biological Systems and Bioinformatics

10/25/12

Pioneering new approaches to medical and biological research, our interdisciplinary teams of scientists are addressing many difficult problems with the goal of achieving research discoveries.
Artistic Expression and the Performing Arts

10/25/12

Continuing UB’s long tradition of groundbreaking accomplishments, this strength works to facilitate a vibrant and dynamic environment for artistic creation.

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