Community Partnerships

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

Help make Buffalo an orchestra of light on May 4
4/24/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – On May 4, Buffalo residents are invited to help turn parts of downtown Buffalo and Allentown into a symphony of blinking, multi-colored lights as part of artist Antoine Schmitt’s “City Lights Orchestra” project.
‘Practical Herbalism’ and wild foods seminar begins UBThisSummer program
4/23/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo’s annual menu of intellectually stimulating, fun and sometimes offbeat summer workshops and courses kicks off next week with a program that will give participants an introduction to preparing herbal remedies and cooking a wild food buffet.
UB and St. John Baptist panel releases report on creation of economic opportunities for residents of neighborhoods bordering Buffalo’s medical campus
4/22/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Economic Opportunity Panel (EOP), appointed by the University at Buffalo and St. John Baptist Fruit Belt Community Development Corp. to assess how the opportunities created by the sale of the McCarley Gardens housing complex could be more accessible to the residents of McCarley Gardens and the city’s Fruit Belt, released its report today.
School of Management honors recruiters, interns and supervisors
4/12/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Frank L. Ciminelli Family Career Resource Center and the Credit-Bearing Internship Program in the University at Buffalo School of Management honored business professionals, students and companies on April 12 at a reception in the South Lake Village Community Room on UB’s North Campus.
UB and SUNY officials to conduct community forum with Fruit Belt residents to discuss medical school project
4/10/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Community stakeholders from neighborhoods surrounding the University at Buffalo’s Downtown Campus will receive an update on UB’s plans to build a new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences downtown during a community forum at 7 p.m. tonight in the Gaylord Cary Conference Room at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (across from the main hospital).
UB unveils dramatic design for new downtown medical school
4/10/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo publicly unveiled today the dramatic design for its new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building to be constructed on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo.
History of jazz in Buffalo is now available online at UB
4/9/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo Libraries has digitized the complete 58-issue run of Buffalo Jazz Report, the personal project of a passionate jazz fan and musician whose publication documents the history of jazz in Buffalo.
Media advisory: Contest will give UB students 90 seconds to pitch a business idea
4/4/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — How fast can you pitch an idea? On April 10, University at Buffalo students will find out at a campus-wide elevator pitch competition. Participants will get 90 seconds each to pitch an idea for solving a problem to a panel of expert judges.
Heavy lifting by UB students aims to help revive the Heights neighborhood
4/3/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – They are called PULL projects – multiyear Pop-Up Living Laboratories – whose aim is to promote economic stabilization, neighborhood revitalization, crime reduction and a prosperous business district in the Heights neighborhood surrounding the University at Buffalo South Campus.
UB physics students will introduce kids to the magic of science at Buffalo Museum of Science camp
4/1/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Children between 8 and 12 years old will learn about levitating magnets, floating superconductors and cool (no pun intended) things you can do with liquid nitrogen on Tuesday, April 2 at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. at the Buffalo Museum of Science (1020 Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo).