Community Partnerships

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

Marilyn Morris appointed department chair in UB pharmacy school
3/15/17
The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has named SUNY Distinguished Professor Marilyn E. Morris, PhD, as chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
UB nursing welcomes pain and opioid addictions expert as Bullough Lecture speaker
3/15/17
The opioid epidemic affecting the nation will be the focus of the University at Buffalo School of Nursing’s 20th Annual Bullough Lecture, which will be presented by Peggy Compton, PhD, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Iranian New Year’s celebration to welcome refugees, immigrant families
3/14/17
The University at Buffalo Gender Institute and the Coalition for the Advancement for Moslem Women will mark the start of the Iranian New Year with a Naw Ruz celebration of food, dancing and music on March 31.
Game-changing scholar to deliver second annual Robert Creeley Lecture
3/14/17
Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan Professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of English, will be the featured speaker for UB’s second annual Robert Creeley Lecture on Poetry and Poetics.
UB, NYSTAR pair to extend WNY Incubator Network (WIN) to 2021
3/13/17
The extension includes annual funding of $250,000.
Wanted: Local high-tech startups to apply for $25K pitch competition
3/13/17
Applications are now open for the annual Bright Buffalo Niagara (BBN) Entrepreneur Expo to be held on Wednesday, June 28.
UB receives major grant to support ontology-based research in digital manufacturing
3/9/17
UB has entered into an agreement to implement a $1.3 million project designed to create and test work flow innovations using a standard vocabulary and set of categories to support digital manufacturing for a local technology and services innovator.
UB School of Law to hold conference on legal challenges posed by climate change
3/8/17
UB’s Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and Buffalo Environmental Law Journal will bring together noted experts to discuss how law and policy can help society address the changing climate.
Artist to create permanent mural on Buffalo’s East Side as part of UB residency
3/6/17
Internationally celebrated visual artist, performer and storyteller Shantell Martin will be in residence at UB March 11 to June 25 as part of the university’s Creative Arts Initiative.
Startup led by UB alums moves traditional classrooms into the modern age
3/6/17
The company, interactiveX, was recently admitted to the START-UP NY economic development program

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