Community Partnerships

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

  • Concert to Benefit Public Interest Law Program
    9/26/06
    Two University at Buffalo Law School professors and two second-year law students will be among the featured performers at a benefit concert that will raise scholarship funds for students pursuing internships and careers in public interest law.
  • Major Study of Buffalo's Block Clubs to be Presented Tonight
    5/31/06
    The University at Buffalo Department of Sociology and the City of Buffalo Division of Citizens' Services will present the "Community Update and Forum on Block Clubs in Buffalo" today (Wednesday, May 31, 2006) from 6-8 p.m. at the Belmont Shelter Center, 1195 Main St., Buffalo.
  • Students Develop Strategy for Kensington Heights
    3/17/06
    Graduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning have proposed a strategy for the large-scale retail development of the former Glenny Drive apartment complex, 1827 Fillmore Ave., in Buffalo's East Side's commercially underserved Kensington Heights neighborhood.
  • Center for Urban Studies Receives $359,090 Grant
    12/19/05
    The Center for Urban Studies in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has received a three-year, $359,090 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to fund a comprehensive, university-assisted community development plan for two Buffalo neighborhoods in serious decline.
  • On the Road 10 Years, Dental Van Helps 7,000 Children
    10/7/05
    More than 20,000 treatment hours have been logged by 7,000 children in Chautauqua County who have received dental care that otherwise would not be available to them since the UB School of Dental Medicine's traveling dental van took to the Southern Tier's roads 10 years ago.
  • UB Pharmacy Interns 'Invaluable' at Community Health Center of Buffalo
    5/6/05
    Just a mile from the University at Buffalo South (Main Street) Campus is one of three community health centers where students from the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences are making a difference for Western New York residents.
  • What's Next for Broadway-Fillmore? Find Out on Dec. 8
    12/3/04
    Community members and business leaders in Buffalo's Broadway-Fillmore area have been working for months with senior students in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning on what both consider "real" plans to invigorate the neighborhood, grounded in the past success of other "fresh market" projects, national shopping trends, and interest by the federal government.
  • In Buffalo, a "Children's Geography" Reveals How Significantly Kids Impact Their Inner-City Neighborhoods
    8/9/04
    For many school-age kids, geography consists mostly of maps of faraway places and the capitals of the 50 states. But some inner-city Buffalo children have been studying geography much closer to home and University at Buffalo researchers are paying attention.
  • UB School of Architecture and Planning Receives Awards
    6/29/04
    Two projects of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning have received awards from the Western New York Section of the American Planning Association (APA).
  • To Boost Bellevue Residents' Response to Public Health Surveys, UB Researchers Sponsor Educational Sessions
    4/14/04
    For years, residents living in the Bellevue section of Cheektowaga have wondered if something in their environment contributes to an increased incidence of disease in their neighborhood. University at Buffalo researchers, working with the New York State Department of Health, hope finally to be able to answer that question by year's end, but first they say they need more residents to fill out and return to them important 10-page surveys.