Community Partnerships

News about partnerships and programs that support the local community, including community-led initiatives. (see all topics)

  • Sustainability Academy launches at UB
    9/26/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. — Students from the University at Buffalo’s new Sustainability Academy will join fellow undergraduates in touring Love Canal, the Buffalo waterfront, Silo City and other locations this Friday to learn about the region’s history of industrial pollution and how the community is turning this legacy around to create a more sustainable Buffalo Niagara.
  • Sculpture of folded steel rises in the shadow of Buffalo’s grain elevators
    9/25/13

    BUFFALO, N.Y. — In a classically Rust Belt workspace, University at Buffalo architecture faculty members Nick Bruscia and Chris Romano have been designing — and fabricating — structures that explore new uses for textured steel.

  • Opportunity of a lifetime: UB student introduces the president
    8/22/13

    BUFFALO, N.Y. — Until Thursday, Silvana C. D’Ettorre had never given a public speech. That changed in a big way as the University at Buffalo sophomore and Grand Island native stood before thousands of people in Alumni Arena and welcomed President Barack Obama to Western New York.

  • UB President Satish K. Tripathi’s remarks during President Obama’s visit
    8/22/13

    The remarks that University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi will deliver to the audience at Alumni Arena prior to President Barack Obama’s speech today are enclosed.

  • $75,000 grant to aid minority and women entrepreneurs
    8/15/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A $75,000 grant from the Allstate Foundation will help support initiatives for minority and women entrepreneurs at the University at Buffalo School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) while also funding a new pilot program.
  • UB offers engineering service grants to small and mid-sized businesses
    8/7/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Entrepreneurs and small- to mid-sized businesses in Western New York seeking to enhance their competitive edge can receive up to $25,000 in matching funds for technical assistance from the University at Buffalo’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
  • Media advisory: Students from across U.S. to showcase research they conducted in Buffalo
    7/31/13

    On Friday, Aug. 2, more than 100 student scientists from across the country will convene in downtown Buffalo to show off posters describing the results of research they completed in regional labs.

  • Worried about your teenager driving a car? They can learn for free on UB’s driving simulator
    7/19/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Attention parents with teenagers learning to drive.
  • Media advisory: Summer school — for science teachers
    7/16/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. — Analyzing the bacteria in lake water. Testing water filters made from an exciting, new material. Building an earthquake simulation table.
  • UB on the Green to feature ‘theme’ nights
    7/12/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The seventh season of UB on the Green, the University at Buffalo’s free outdoor performance series, will feature a bit of a twist: In addition to a major musical or arts performance, each night’s events will focus on a specific theme designed to welcome UB’s South Campus neighbors to the university and introduce them to different aspects of UB.