UB Making a Difference

UB has been designated as a First-gen Forward institution for its devotion to uplifting first-generation students in higher education.

Members of the UB community are working to provide comfort and support to people in need following Saturday’s mass shooting at a Tops market.

UB geography doctoral student Naiima Khahaifa is one of 36 students in the U.S. to win the Ford Dissertation Fellowship.

Ebony Omotola McGee has seen bias in STEM firsthand, and she talked about her experiences and solutions during a recent event at UB.

A new study found that over the past 20 years, more Black men have been dying from sleep apnea than white people and Black women.

The project developed by UB faculty member John Hall and partners has won an environmental justice award in a Department of Energy contest.

UB historian Victoria Wolcott examines how utopian groups of the 1930s and 1940s changed the lives of African Americans.

Award-winning poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong recently spoke to a "Let's Talk About Race" audience about Asian American race relations in the U.S.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest son touched on many of the same themes that his father preached during a visit to UB more than 50 years ago.

More than $65,000 in startup funding and services was awarded at the annual UB entrepreneurial competition.

The College of Arts and Sciences' Distinguished Visiting Scholar will use the award for a project on the U.S. Postal Service.

UB faculty member Korydon Smith creates design solutions for marginalized people around the world.

UB's Summer Diversity Research Mentorship Program is designed to attract more underrepresented students to surgery.

The program creates pathways for students at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey to pursue graduate studies at UB.

The lecture and workshop will feature the author of “Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation.”

A UB-led study urges schools to embrace students' cultural identities in order to foster a safer learning environment.

UB faculty member Henry Adler's children are real-life CODAs — children of deaf adults.

During last week’s town halls, both short- and long-term recommendations were presented to make UB a more inclusive place to live, learn and work.

The visit March 28 through April 1 is part of the effort to increase the number of faculty from traditionally underrepresented populations.