Community Partnerships

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

Organizations with broad social ties improve outcomes for communities recovering from natural disasters
11/16/18
Communities recovering from natural disasters often see an increase in businesses and non-profits that develop after the cleanup, but that doesn’t necessarily counterweigh the rise in poverty levels in areas transformed by events such as storms, earthquakes and wildfires.
Media Advisory: Peter Diamandis, XPRIZE founder, to speak as part of UB Distinguished Speakers Series
11/13/18
Peter Diamandis, an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competition and commercial space, will speak at UB on Nov. 14 as part of UB’s Distinguished Speakers Series.
UB again named among top U.S. universities hosting international students
11/13/18
For the 16th straight year, the University at Buffalo is rated among the nation’s top 25 institutions hosting international students.
UB hosting week of events to reveal dangers of antibiotic overuse
11/12/18
The UB Community of Excellence in Genome, Environment and Microbiome is hosting the third annual Mind Your Microbiome and Be Antibiotics Aware Week, a program that seeks to promote awareness of the microbiome and educate the public about the lasting effects of antibiotic overuse.
Imperiled, some freshwater mussels endure. How?
11/12/18
Surveys in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds show steady numbers, but other species are disappearing.
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.

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