Community Partnerships

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

Online campaign #holdmediaaccountable launched to rein in media companies
5/7/18
A group of University at Buffalo students in a political communication class has launched an online campaign called #holdmediaaccountable. The goal? To call attention to the profiteering by media companies selling access to Americans and the threat that poses to democracy.
Graduate School of Education earns Cullen Grant to cultivate better teachers
5/3/18
The grant will support a UB program to cultivate a “racially, ethnically, linguistically diverse teaching force” in the city’s schools.
Neuroscientists receive grant to study shuttling proteins
5/2/18
Two researchers in UB's Research Institute on Addictions will expand on their work exploring the brain’s endocannabinoid system as a result of a two-year, $427,000 grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
UB announces $650 million Boldly Buffalo campaign
4/30/18
The University at Buffalo today launches a fundraising campaign that is the largest in university history and the largest in the history of the State University of New York system.
Media Advisory: Superhero-themed STEM event Saturday in Buffalo expected to draw hundreds of students
4/27/18
Young tech companies Bak USA and Thimble will join ISEP, Say Yes Buffalo and others to excite children about science, engineering.
UB Libraries opens new poetry award to college students across WNY
4/26/18
The University at Buffalo Libraries and riverrun have established the riverrun Summer Research Program in the Poetry Collection, a new award that aims to advance the study of poetry in Western New York.
UB tops Mid-American Conference in green power usage
4/25/18
UB beat its conference rivals by using more than 219 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power, representing 100 percent of the school’s annual electricity use.
Media Advisory: ‘BAND Against Bullying’ school competition returns to UB
4/23/18
“BAND Against Bullying,” the annual competition to raise bullying awareness, will take place 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, at the UB Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
Handwriting expert to give workshop at UB on reading and preserving rare manuscripts
4/19/18
Sarah Powell, a paleographer at the Folger Shakespeare Library, will conduct a daylong workshop on how to read and digitally encode 17th-century materials at a workshop to be held April 24.
Artist and psychoanalyst in residence at UB to present the first U.S. museum exhibition of her work
4/18/18
Bracha L. Ettinger, whose celebrated pieces have made her among the most prominent visual artists in France and Israel, will present the first-ever museum exhibition of her work in the U.S. as part of her residency in the UB’s Creative Arts Institute.