Diversity and Inclusion

News about UB initiatives and research relating to diversity, equity and inclusion. (see all topics)

UB social work researcher named to national panel to address evictions
12/7/20
Kelly Patterson joins the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s major new initiative to help develop possible interventions to the crisis of evictions.
UB among nation’s top schools for hosting international students
11/25/20
The census of international students at UB in fall, 2019, totaled 6,733, according to the Open Doors report.
Poetry and gaming as agents for social change at UB’s Palah Light Lab
11/24/20
Based in the Department of Media Study, the lab utilizes a feminist and queer-centered approach as part of an interdisciplinary mission of political engagement and social justice through instruction, poetry and gaming.
Students around world create COVID-themed comics through UB program
11/23/20
A team of UB researchers used the power of storytelling through comic books to help high school students around the world better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
UB researchers awarded $1 million grant to advance urban agriculture
11/18/20
Team will work with partners in Buffalo and Minneapolis to grow urban agriculture policy from the ground up.
Examining COVID-19’s effects on the food retail environment
11/17/20
Paper reflects on how coronavirus pandemic has changed food retail, and provides recommendations for research to understand the impact of the pandemic on the retail food environment and consumer behavior.
UB graduate student wins award for leadership in veterans community
11/10/20
Student Veteran Leadership Awards recipient Justin Downey has also been appointed to SUNY's Student Voices Action Committee.
Remote learning adds pressure for teachers who work second shift as mothers
11/9/20
The transition to remote learning coupled with an unequal distribution of second-shift responsibilities has placed teachers who are also mothers under immense stress, according to new University at Buffalo research.
University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance Presents “Everybody”
11/5/20
"Everybody” was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and was first produced off-Broadway by Signature Theatre.
CIGBS partners with Àvida Biotech to advance vaccines
11/3/20
The UB Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences will partner with Àvida Biotech to advance new antivirals and vaccines for neglected infectious diseases such as the dengue, Zika and Chikungunya viruses.

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