Environment and Sustainability

UB undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students will work in teams to develop social, economic, technological and public policy solutions to sanitation challenges faced by schoolchildren around the world.

From May 8-15, UB student volunteers will be stationed at three collection sites where resident students can dispose of items they no longer want, and which will be resold at a large yard sale in the fall.

For the second day in a row, the University at Buffalo has been recognized as a sustainability leader in higher education.

The University at Buffalo ranks first on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership list of the largest college and university green power users.

There are many unknowns related to changing climate that make it difficult to predict future water level conditions.

A study by UB and Yale finds that cloud cover can help identify the size and location of important animal and plant habitats.

Study suggests that pyroclastic flows traveled in dense, slow-moving currents during one ancient supereruption.

Thirteen graduate students in an interdisciplinary studio offered through the UB School of Architecture and Planning spent three weeks in India collaborating with partners there to help develop a much-needed public sanitation plan.

Nicholas Rajkovich's eye-catching bicycle-based weather station will help urban planners and policy makers develop neighborhood-level programs that can mitigate the impact of climate change on cities and their residents.

University of Flint-Michigan professor and UB alumna Michelle Sahli will discuss the Flint water crisis in a presentation Feb. 29 at UB.