News and Events

03/11/2025 - 'A healthy, thriving and joyful community': Promise of progress for Buffalo's East Side moves forward

03/11/2025 - New initiative plans to revitalize Buffalo’s East Side starting with Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood

02/25/2025 - Changing the Black East Side team to announce pilot neighborhood

12/18/2024 - On the Driven to Discover podcast, Henry Louis Taylor explains how transforming neighborhoods will improve health outcomes

12/03/2024 - Henry Louis Taylor Jr. talks to host Ellen Goldbaum about changing the Black East Side

11/13/2024 - UB professor takes next steps to close the happiness gap

10/07/2024 - Meet the ultimate influencer. You!

05/30/2024 - A different approach to revitalizing Buffalo’s East Side

04/09/2024 - How one UB professor hopes to transform a neighborhood on Buffalo’s East Side

03/07/2024 - More than 400 engage at the Jacobs School to discuss ‘How We Change the Black East Side’

02/20/2024 - Five East Side neighborhoods will be announced as finalists for a pilot demonstration project

12/20/2023 - 2023 in review: A year of innovation, community service, scholarly excellence and more

12/13/2023 - Changing the Black East Side: Pilot initiative will holistically tackle one neighborhood’s social determinants of health

12/22/2022 - 2022: A look back in research, service and scholarly activity at UB

04/07/2022 - For underrepresented medical students at UB, surgical diversity means new experiences both inside and outside the OR

02/23/2022 - UB’s medical school implements anti-racism as a core principle of its curriculum

02/02/2022 - Media advisory: The racist origins of American gynecology and the history of medical racism are the focus of UB Department of Surgery event

12/27/2021 - Seventeen research stories from a year of discovery at UB

10/21/2021 - UB report details the current state of Buffalo’s Black community

04/02/2021 - New UB website is a go-to resource for researchers and community groups focused on reversing health inequities in Buffalo

12/18/2020 - 2020 in review: How UB’s faculty, staff and students fought COVID-19

11/03/2020 - UB faculty experts to provide post-Election Day commentary

10/14/2020 - UB-community partnership is helping blunt the effect of the pandemic on Buffalo’s most vulnerable citizens

12/12/2019 - New UB institute to address health disparities in Buffalo

03/20/2018 - In Buffalo, UB medical students learn about health disparities from those who bear the consequences

04/11/2017 - Media Advisory: To better understand patients’ lives, UB medical students will interact with and reflect on city’s diverse communities

06/28/2016 - In UB summer camp, BPS students learn to battle blight, one block at a time

01/22/2016 - Flint water crisis never would have happened in affluent white neighborhood, UB expert says

07/20/2015 - Easing of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations will create ‘influx of resources’, but not without concerns, UB expert says

06/19/2015 - CEL graduates emerging minority and women entrepreneurs