Community Partnerships

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

  • UB Confucius Institute, Chinese Club of WNY Will Usher in the Year of the Snake on Feb. 10
    1/10/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo Confucius Institute (UBCI) and the Chinese Club of Western New York (CCWNY), in partnership with Buffalo’s Gold Summit Organization for the Development of Eastern Culture, will present their colorful, musical and much anticipated annual Chinese New Year celebration on Feb. 10.
  • UB Recruiting Innovators in Life Sciences for High-Tech CEL
    1/10/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Leaders of early-stage life sciences and technology companies can take advantage of a High-Tech Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) program that will begin in March 2013.
  • EPA Recognizes Buffalo's Larkin District for Smart Growth Achievement, 'Urban Village' Concept Envisioned in Master Plan by UB School of Architecture and Planning
    12/6/12
    The Larkin District and its development and planning team, including the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, won an honorable mention at the prestigious National Award for Smart Growth Achievement ceremony Dec. 5 in Washington, D.C.
  • UB Recognized as Bicycle-Friendly Campus
    11/9/12
    The League of American Bicyclists has designated the University at Buffalo as a "Bicycle Friendly University" at the bronze level, an award presented only to institutions with a strong commitment to cycling.
  • UB Pharmacy School Returns to City of Buffalo as Kapoor Hall Opens
    9/28/12
    Jovin Panthapattu feels like he's making history as he heads to class these days at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Hosts Block Party, Safety Fair on the South Campus
    8/31/12
    University at Buffalo students and their neighbors will get to know each other during UB Neighbors' Day Block Party and Safety Fair Sunday, Sept. 2, on the UB South Campus lawn near Hayes Hall.
  • UB Archaeologists Digging Up Buffalo's Canalside
    8/15/12
    For several years, teams of University at Buffalo archaeologists from the Buffalo Archaeological Survey have conducted digs in downtown Buffalo along what was the Erie Canal. The artifacts they've found, when considered together, help describe how Buffalonians lived and worked from the early 1800s onward.
  • UB's Oscars of Digital Student Videos -- 'City Voices, City Visions' Makes a Return Engagement
    6/6/12
    The University at Buffalo's "City Voices, City Visions" student film festival will present its "Academy Awards" to the winning high school digital cinematographers 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 7, 2012, at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, 639 Main St., in downtown Buffalo.
  • Students Develop Economic Revival Plans for Buffalo Neighborhoods
    3/22/12
    Don't tell the students in the University at Buffalo Law School's Regional Economic Development class the next big idea to revive Western New York communities isn't sitting in plain sight -- complete with reader-friendly illustrations.
  • UB Outlines Role in Plans for a Complete Overhaul of Perry Choice Community
    1/20/12
    The Center for Urban Studies, a research and community development unit in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has joined itself to a massive effort: a proposal by the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority to restructure, redevelop and rehabilitate downtown Buffalo's seriously declining Commodore Perry neighborhood and turn it into the vibrant, sustainable community it once was.