Bold Stories

This year, you and 14,167 other bold UB alumni and friends gave $2.2 million to the UB Fund and changed lives.

Thank you for opening doors

We’re proud of all that Loyal Blues accomplished. Your gifts created opportunities for our students to do, see and learn things beyond their wildest dreams. It’s how they saw the world, exchanged ideas, inspired action and took the lead.

Here are just a few of the ways your gifts came together to make life better here in Buffalo and around the globe:

Giving a hand up through scholarships.

Scholarship Support

600 students received financially critical scholarships

Building better places to learn.

Learning Spaces

$3,000 furnished a collaboration space for the School of Nursing

Working together across the globe.

Experiential Learning

16 students traveled to Haiti on a medical mission trip

Learning around the globe together.

New Technology

$19,000 helped develop an online class researching Bitcoin

Collectively, you've shown the world what a force the UB community can be when we come together for our students, our faculty and our world. Every year, 100 percent of the UB Fund is used to enhance the student experience. That’s why giving annually is so important. We couldn’t do it without you. Thank you.

Are you a Loyal Blue?

Your bold support means so much to UB students and the entire university community. As a Loyal Blue you will be recognized for your investment in our future, and we will help you stay connected to our traditions, informed of the latest university news, and in the loop on upcoming events.

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Changing Lives On Campus and Worldwide

UB continues to make life better every day, just as we have since 1846. We invite you to learn more about the vital role we play in improving everyday life and achieving extraordinary results—and discover how your gift can make a difference.

  • Honoring their Father: Samuel A. Caccamise
    9/4/19
    Family members of Samuel A. Caccamise (DDS '26) have gathered together to honor their father by giving a significant gift to name an operatory after him.
  • Honoring Lifelong Friendship
    8/20/19
    The University at Buffalo School of Management announces one of the largest cash gifts in the school’s history that will create the Kenneth W. Colwell Chair in Accounting and Law.
  • A Good Spirit: Remembering Paul D. Senese
    6/20/19
    In memory of Paul, the Senese family has endowed the Department of Political Science with an ongoing award.
  • Network—A story for Buffalo
    6/19/19
    Larry and Leslie Zielinski started the fund with an endowment gift and add to it every year. Now they’ve committed to further funding through their estate plan.
  • Can’t Be Grateful Enough
    6/13/19
    Mario Rocci Jr. (BS ’76, PhD ’81) wants others to receive the support he received at UB.
  • Fond Memories of UB
    5/17/19
    Linda Edelman, BS ’66, PharmD, leaves a generous bequest.
  • Close Family, Bold Legacy
    2/19/19
    For David Herer, CEL ’90, family is everything—it’s in the history of his company, the inspiration for his community involvement and the legacy he’s leaving at the UB School of Management.
  • Combining Forces for Good
    9/26/18
    Social work and management students collaborate to tackle pressing social problems.
  • Semester of a Lifetime
    9/26/18
    For senior Boston Kistka, a summer semester in Australia’s Sunshine Coast changed her career direction.
  • Designing Better Worlds
    9/26/18
    Students in the School of Architecture and Planning are learning from—and rebuilding—the city around them

Progress to date

Our goal: $650 million

We have already made great progress. Now, we are asking you—our alumni, our friends and our community—to show the world what UB means to you.

Your investment in UB will make a difference, whether you support a scholarship for one UB student, endow a professor who will inspire thousands, or fund a cancer cure that saves the lives of millions. This is our bold promise to you.

Three campuses. 360 degrees.

Want to know what's new at UB but can’t make the trip to Buffalo? Step into the world of our students and faculty using this virtual reality adventure and experience 360-degree tours of all three campuses.

Have a virtual reality headset?  Open in the YouTube app for best viewing experience.

North Campus
6/1/18

Visit a Bulls game in Alumni Arena, learn how students in the Neurocognition Science Laboratory use VR to make an impact in the community, catch a tap class at the Department of Theatre and Dance, pitch an idea for a new product at the Blackstone Launchpad and more. Watch now.

South Campus
6/1/18

View nursing students in action in UB’s patient simulation operating room, look at how the Center for Research and Education in Special Environments uses a hyperbaric chamber to study environmental effects on human survival, and tour the iconic clock tower in Hayes Hall that just underwent a $44 million renovation in 2016. Watch now.

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
6/1/18

Present data to a classroom in the Active Learning Center, watch students from various health professions learn together in the first-of-its-kind Behling Simulation Center, see how the Matt Urban Hope Center empowers students to change the world and more in this brand-new campus located right in the heart of the Buffalo medical corridor. Watch now.

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