Community Partnerships

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

UB and BNMC give Fruit Belt leaders tools to succeed
3/29/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Leaders from across the City of Buffalo and UB joined together Wednesday to congratulate the graduates of a leadership training program offered to two-dozen members of the city’s historic Fruit Belt neighborhood near the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC).
Fruit Belt residents graduate from leadership program offered by UB and other BNMC stakeholders
3/27/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Improving life in Buffalo’s Fruit Belt is the goal of 24 residents, business owners, parishioners and property owners in the neighborhood who are graduating from a leadership training program provided by the University at Buffalo, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Inc., Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Kaleida Health.
First Niagara provides land for new UB medical school project
3/27/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo and First Niagara Financial Group Inc. announced today that First Niagara has given to UB a parcel of land to be used in the construction of the university’s new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
UB Police earn ‘gold standard’ of law enforcement recognition
3/26/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo Police earned the approval of the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Authorities (CALEA), becoming the only police department in Erie County and one of five in the state to receive national accreditation.
Architectural historians worldwide to explore Buffalo during annual society meeting
3/26/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — When architectural luminaries from around the world come to Buffalo this April for the Society of Architectural Historians annual conference, experts from the University at Buffalo will be on hand to introduce out-of-town guests to the marvels that make Buffalo unique, and to the innovative ways in which the city is planning for the future.
News Conference: UB and First Niagara will make important announcement about UB medical school move downtown
3/26/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – First Niagara Bank and the University at Buffalo will make an important announcement about the construction of the new UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
UB’s Ninth Annual Indigenous and American Studies Storytellers Conference evokes the Two Row Wampum Belt Treaty of 1613
3/22/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Among indigenous peoples across America and Canada there is outrage and a strong activist movement provoked by what they consider the destructive ongoing violations of the 400 year-old Two Row Wampum-Belt Treaty by American and Canadian governments and entities protected by them – violations Native Peoples say threaten not only indigenous health and culture but life on earth.
Media Advisory: Launch NY CEO to Discuss Innovation and Resources for Upstate New York Startups at UB Life Sciences Lecture Series
3/21/13
John Seman, CEO of Launch NY, will discuss the future of innovation in Upstate New York and how this venture development organization is working to support those efforts.
More UB medical school students choose Buffalo for their residencies
3/20/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Fifty percent more students in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have chosen a UB residency program this year than last year, according to statistics compiled on the graduates at Match Day 2013 held March 15.
UB gears up for 14-hour-long marathon reading of Emily Dickinson’s poems during National Poetry Month
3/18/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Community members will get the chance to celebrate National Poetry Month in April by paying homage to the poems of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson in an epic community marathon reading in which all 1,789 of Dickinson’s poems will be read aloud in 14 hours.