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Building UB: Our Physical Plan

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Hundreds of millions of dollars of capital projects are in planning or under construction – all in support of Building UB: the Comprehensive Physical Plan.

9/28/12

In a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Lt. Gov. Robert J. Duffy and other dignitaries, the pharmacy school officially opened its new home, John and Editha Kapoor Hall, named for alumnus John N. Kapoor and his late wife, Editha.

9/20/12

The CTRC is a unique 170,000-square-foot research facility that allows UB researchers to work in closer proximity to patients and clinicians to help speed the development of improved treatments.

9/5/12

The University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) has a new home in the UB Downtown Gateway.

5/16/12

BUFFALO, N.Y. — After an international competition that focused the expertise of four elite architectural teams on design possibilities for a new University at Buffalo school of medicine in downtown Buffalo, UB announced today the selection of the winning team.

5/10/12

The University at Buffalo today officially opened its new $75 million, environmentally friendly School of Engineering and Applied Sciences research facility.

3/31/12

The university has kicked off a competition to select an architecture and engineering firm to design and construct the new UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

1/19/12

UB’s downtown campus is growing. By early February, nearly 100 UB employees who had been based at various sites will have moved into new digs in the UB Gateway, the former M. Wile building at Goodell and Ellicott streets. The historic structure is undergoing an approximately $4 million renovation.

12/13/11

Approval today of the University at Buffalo's NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant application by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher provides a critical piece of funding needed for UB to move ahead with its UB 2020 plan for academic excellence.

8/19/11

Sustainable, Plyboo walls. Floor tiling made from recycled soda bottles. Man-made ponds designed to capture rainwater before it enters an overloaded sewer system. Electrical outlets high enough to be easily accessible to wheelchair users. Classrooms and lounges suitable for educational programs and social gatherings.

8/13/10

The restoration of a central, 2.3-acre quadrangle at the University at Buffalo by a renowned landscape architecture firm showcases the kind of sustainable landscaping that will define campus grounds as UB implements its long-range plan.

4/22/10

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced today that internationally renowned artist and landscape architect Walter Hood of Oakland, Calif., is the winner of a public art competition to design the 1.1 megawatt solar array that will be constructed by NYPA this year on UB's North Campus.

4/5/10

The Rev. Michael Chapman, pastor of St. John Baptist Church and president of the Oak-Michigan Housing Development Corp, a not-for-profit housing development corporation of St. John Baptist Church, announced on April 5 a step forward for a well-devised, systematic, business plan to revitalize Buffalo’s East Side and the critical role of UB in achieving this goal.

12/9/09

UB continues to expand its presence in downtown Buffalo with last month’s move of the UB Regional Institute to the UB Downtown Gateway.

9/11/09

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences held a ceremonial groundbreaking today for the building it will call home in 2012, when pharmacy will become the first UB professional school in three decades to move onto the South (Main Street) Campus and back into the City of Buffalo.

8/3/09

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The effort to transform Buffalo into a world-class health care destination and expand the University at Buffalo's campus in downtown Buffalo took a major step forward today as Kaleida Health and UB broke ground for a new 10-story global vascular institute and research building.