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Our Alumni Keep Leading the Charge

We create and promote lifelong bonds with our graduates, and work to inspire them to care about the past, present and future of the university. Together we will help UB take its place among America’s great public universities. 

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Move the world

More than 280,000 UB alumni are making a difference in every state and 150 countries around the world. Among our celebrated graduates are:

  • Co-founder of Baidu.com, the largest Chinese-language search engine — Li Yanhong (Robin Li)
  • Award-winning journalist for CNN — Wolf Blitzer
  • Chief diversity and inclusion officer for the NFL — Jonathan Beane
  • Former executive director of World Education Services — Mariam Assefa
  • Industrialist and former Indonesian minister of state-owned enterprises — Tanri Abeng
  • Former astronaut and NASA mission specialist — Ellen Shulman Baker
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and foreign correspondent for the LA Times — Marcus Yam
  • Executive producer and host of NPR’s “Fresh Air” — Terry Gross
  • Superstar NFL linebacker — Khalil Mack
  • Founder of New York Fashion Week — Fern Mallis
  • Hollywood actor — Winston Duke
  • Former director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Christopher Scolese
  • Pulitzer Prize–winning former editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post — Tom Toles
  • Former president and CEO of Girls, Inc. — Judy Vredenburgh
  • Former Chinese minister of education and current president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering — Zhou Ji
  • Former mayor of Kabul, Afghanistan — Ahmad Zaki Sarfaraz

At Buffalo

A Grateful University
1/10/25

This year, the University at Buffalo’s largest fundraising campaign in its 178-year history—also the largest in the history of the State University of New York system—closed beyond expectations thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends.

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Learn about amazing UB grads, groundbreaking discoveries, promising students and more in At Buffalo.

Move Together

All graduates have exclusive access to UB’s global alumni network, special events, learning opportunities, and much more. They're as tenacious, bold, and hard working as ever.  

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Bold Opportunities

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