Fund for Global and International Research

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Facilitates faculty research with an international focus and supports globally oriented scholarship and collaboration that aligns with UB’s strategic priorities

UB’s engagement and impact are advanced through global and international research. This fund helps support cutting-edge research with partners around the world to address global challenges and enhance UB’s visibility abroad.

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Other International Education Funds

  • Welch-Ludwig Fund for International Study
    8/24/26
    Created by two highly regarded and long-serving faculty internationalists at UB (Claude Welch and Jeannette Ludwig), this fund provides scholarships to UB students pursuing studies overseas in various fields. The example of Professor Welch’s and Professor Ludwig’s research and teaching about the global community inspires students to make the world their classroom. Based on available funds, a limited number of partial scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis to assist students with the costs of study abroad for an academic year, semester, summer, or winter program.
  • Steven L. Shaw Memorial International Student Emergency Fund
    8/24/26
    UB's International students contribute to the university in countless ways. Unexpected economic challenges can be especially difficult for some of our international students. Named in honor of the late Steven L. Shaw, long-serving associate vice provost and director of International Admissions at UB, and a passionate advocate for international students, this fund helps international students deal with short-term economic difficulties. Through your generosity and that of donors like you, the Shaw fund is enabling many students to continue their studies at UB successfully. Please consider a gift that can make a big difference in the life of an international student.
  • Fund for Global and International Research
    8/24/26
    UB’s engagement and impact are advanced through global and international research. This fund helps support cutting-edge research with partners around the world to address global challenges and enhance UB’s visibility abroad.
  • Nina Tretiak-Shields Fund
    8/24/26
    Created with a bequest from a retired professor of Russian at UB, this fund supports students studying a foreign language and culture abroad. Nina Tretiak-Shields was born in 1914 in Ukraine and attended Kharkiv University during the totalitarian regime of Joseph Stalin. Despite threats to her life from Stalin’s forces, she stayed at the university to complete her doctorate. In 1940, Dr. Tretiak-Shields fled Ukraine and landed in a refugee camp in Germany. In 1950, she immigrated to the US with her family. Speaking no English, she was awarded a scholarship to study Russian Language and Literature at Indiana University. In 1959, Dr. Tretiak-Shields came to the University at Buffalo and opened the Department of Russian Language and Literature. She retired from UB in 1982.The aim is to foster direct contact with the host culture and immersion opportunities that help advance language acquisition as well as cross-cultural understanding.
  • Bonnie Ott Scholarship Endowment Fund
    8/24/26
    Created by longtime Architecture faculty member, Professor Bonnie Ott, who led study abroad programs to Spain for many years, this fund gives priority to Architecture and Planning students with financial need pursuing study abroad in their field for the first time. Ott Scholarship awardees participate in one of the School’s Global Studios in the summer, or on one of its exchange programs with a partner university abroad.
  • Asia Research Institute Fund
    8/24/26
    Supports programming and activities of UB’s Asia Research Institute, fostering research and engagement focused on Asian regions and topics.
  • Dr. Stephen Dunnett Study Abroad Scholarship Fund
    8/24/26
    Established by UB's first and long-serving Vice Provost for International Education (Professor Stephen Dunnett), this fund supports UB students in any field pursuing study abroad through a UB or SUNY program. Having created the Office of Study Abroad Programs some 30 years ago, Professor Dunnett sought to increase study abroad opportunities for UB students and his fund will continue that effort. Dr. Dunnett created this endowment with the belief that experiencing other cultures through study abroad not only enhances students' personal self-growth, but also prepares them to effectively participate and compete in an increasingly multicultural and global society. Through this gift, Dr. Dunnett seeks to reduce the financial barriers to immersive study abroad experiences, thereby allowing access to this transformational experience to a wider populations of UB students. Based on available funds, a limited number of partial scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis to assist students with the costs of study abroad for an academic year, semester, summer, or winter program.
  • Study Abroad Scholarship Fund
    8/24/26
    Based on available funds, a limited number of partial scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis to assist students with the costs of study abroad for an academic year, semester, summer, or winter program. First-time study abroad participants are given preference.
  • UB Alumni Singapore Community Leadership Award
    8/24/26
    Created by UB alumni in Singapore, this fund supports students from Singapore studying at UB, including through the UB Bound program of the UB undergraduate program at the Singapore Institute of Management.
  • International Education Strategic Fund
    8/24/26
    Supports the internationalization of the University at Buffalo, with priority given to current needs.
  • Yildizlar Education Scholarship Fund
    8/24/26
    Established by a successful Turkish-American alum of the UB School of Management, this fund both supports undergraduate students with need from Turkey, and students who pursue study abroad in Turkey.
  • UB Fund for International Education
    8/24/26
    International Education connects students and their learning to the larger world through our diverse, international and inclusive campus community and through a network of international programs, affiliations and curricular and experiential opportunities.
  • Polish Studies Program—Jagiellonian University Fund
    8/24/26
    Created by a retired UB staff member from the local Polish community, this fund supports visiting scholars from UB's distinguished partner, the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Institutional partners for three decades, UB and the Jagiellonian have collaborated in many ways involving faculty, students, scholars and librarians. The fund makes it possible for doctoral students and junior faculty from the Jagiellonian to spend up to two months doing research at UB and conferring with UB colleagues, mentors and students. These visits have led to the successful completion of many Jagiellonian dissertations and book projects.

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