Community Partnerships

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

Media Advisory: Opioid addictions expert to speak at UB on silent epidemic affecting millions of Americans
3/30/17
Nearly 400 nurses, physicians and other health care workers will attend the University at Buffalo School of Nursing’s 20th Annual Bullough Lecture to learn about the silent epidemic affecting the nation from pain and opioid addictions expert Peggy Compton.
Media Advisory: Safe Schools seminar today includes tabletop exercise
3/23/17
The seminar helps participants from Western New York enhance their organization’s threat assessment program.
Media Advisory: Planting potatoes from the International Space Station
3/23/17
Three Buffalo Public Schools students aim to find out how potatoes germinated in space will fare when planted on Earth.
Media Advisory: The famous ‘frozen banana,’ a portable planetarium and other science attractions return to UB
3/20/17
Hundreds of high school science scholars converge on UB during spring break for the annual Science Exploration Day.
People remain calm as the world ends, video game study suggests
3/20/17
The study is based upon the virtual actions of more than 80,000 players of the role-playing video game ArcheAge.
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.

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