Community Partnerships

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

CMI event to highlight industry collaboration, innovative new department
2/15/16
UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics will hold two events on Feb. 18 to showcase collaborative faculty and industry projects and to introduce UB’s new Department for Materials Design and Innovation.
40th Annual MLK Jr. Commemoration at UB to feature Charles Ogletree
2/11/16
Internationally renowned legal theorist Charles Ogletree will speak at UB on Feb. 11 as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series.
Talk by University at Buffalo political scientists explores realities of political polarization
2/10/16
Political divisions in American politics are deep and real, yet the idea persists that America is a moderate nation and that most Americans are moderates, according to two UB political scientists.
UB Humanities Institute opens lecture series with innovative research-based poetry lecture
2/10/16
There is thread of environmental anxiety present in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc,” a prescient mirror image of humanity’s ecological course 200 years after it was written
Ensemble Signal opens Creative Arts Initiative residency program
2/8/16
New music “dream team” Ensemble Signal is visiting UB this week for the first week of a two-week residency at the university as part of UB’s new Creative Arts Initiative.
UB to prepare unemployed workers for manufacturing jobs
2/4/16
The 14-week Manufacturing Production Technician (MPT) program combines online learning with classroom-based training and mentoring.
From Talking Heads to King to Kennedy, UB Archives’ ‘prominent visitors’ photographs command attention
2/4/16
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the photos hanging in UB'sOscar A. Silverman Library speak with loud, proud voices.
Turning off Niagara Falls could yield insight on how waterfalls carve canyons, UB expert says
2/3/16
Geologists could map the rock face beneath the falls to study erosion since 1969, when the falls last went dry.
UB to host 13th annual Safe Schools Initiative Seminar March 16
2/3/16
UB will host the 13th annual Safe Schools Initiative Seminar, “Preventing and Responding to Violent Threats: Tools for Schools and Law Enforcement,” March 16, in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
Give Kids a Smile Day is bringing healthy grins to Buffalo youth for 15th year
2/3/16
The annual event, now in its 15th year, will provide free dental treatment and cleanings to more than 600 children – including nearly 400 Head Start students.

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