Community Partnerships

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

Media Advisory: UB Dental to honor veterans with free dental care before Veterans Day
11/9/18
The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine will host the fourth annual Dentistry Smiles on Veterans, an event that offers free dental care to local servicemen and women.
Novelist and conceptual artist in Buffalo to discuss new book during UB’s Exhibit X Fiction Series
11/8/18
Get ready to meet Shelley Jackson, the genre-defying author who leaps skillfully through mediums ranging from Instagram based fiction, to print-based novels, to a story published in single-word tattoos on the skin of 2,000 volunteers.
Clergy willingly divulge information to protect the vulnerable — except in priest misconduct cases, says UB law expert
11/8/18
AUB law professor studying “clergy privilege” — the legal rule shielding confidential communications of priests — has found priests often recast communications to make them fall outside this testimonial protection.
CRIA awarded more than $4 million from NIH to study effects of prenatal alcohol and drug use
11/2/18

Scientists at UB’s Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions recently received more than $4 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of drinking, smoking and marijuana use during pregnancy.
UB School of Law Mitchell Lecture to address power and varying forms of capitalism in society
11/2/18
The challenge of tempering power in a world of “variegated capitalisms” is the topic of the Fall 2018 Mitchell Lecture to be held Nov. 9, sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Law.
Grant will help UB scientists identify patients most at-risk for future opioid misuse
10/30/18
Researchers at UB's Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions will work with the state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services to assess what risks may occur for people with alcohol use disorder who use prescription painkillers.
Media Advisory: UB to host kid-friendly robotics event Saturday
10/26/18
Activities include rides in a self-driving bus, robot demonstrations, robot programing and learning about careers in robotics.
Media Advisory: UB students to participate in community service projects Oct. 27 in Buffalo
10/26/18
Dozens of UB student volunteers will participate in UB’s Fall Community Day on Oct. 27. Partnering with nine different organizations, UB Community Relations organizes this service day to give students an opportunity to help out in the neighborhoods around UB.
Media Advisory: Vice President Joe Biden to speak at UB Oct. 25 as part of Distinguished Speakers Series
10/24/18
Former Vice President Joe Biden will open UB’s 2018-19 Distinguished Speakers Series at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 in Alumni Arena on the UB North Campus
Talk on ‘himpathy’ launches new ‘On Misogyny’ lecture series at UB
10/23/18
Motivated in part by the #MeToo movement and inspired by Cornell philosopher Kate Manne’s instant classic “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny,” the University at Buffalo Gender Institute is presenting a yearlong lecture series titled “On Misogyny.”

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