Philanthropy

News about generous gifts and our philanthropic programs. (see all topics)

  • Praxair’s Corporate Philanthropy Benefits UB’s Engineering and Management Schools
    1/30/01
    Praxair Inc., a global supplier of industrial gases that has operations in Tonawanda, has pledged $600,000 to the University at Buffalo -- $400,000 for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and $200,000 for the School of Management and its Executive MBA Program in China. Payments will be made over a period of five years.
  • IBM Donation Increases Computing Power, Storage Capacity in UB Supercomputing Center
    1/26/01
    IBM, a partner since day one in the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research (CCR), is positioning UB's outstanding supercomputing facility for even greater growth by donating equipment worth more than $640,000.
  • UB Professor Remembered Through Family Gift for Engineering Scholarships
    1/23/01
    John Zahorjan, a Fisher-Price industrial engineering executive who "retired" to his first love of teaching at the University at Buffalo, has been remembered by his family through a $260,000 pledge to UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
  • Family Gift for Engineering Scholarship Honors UB Alum and Military Helicopter Pilot
    1/16/01
    The family of Yong H. Lee has remembered the 1981 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with an endowed scholarship in memory of the helicopter pilot who died in 1996 in a crash during the initial test flight of a military helicopter bound for the presidential fleet.
  • Verizon Grant to Help Buffalo School Children Read
    12/20/00
    Reading made easy through technology -- that's the plan behind a $100,000 gift from Verizon to a collaborative literacy project of the Center for Applied Technologies in Education at the University at Buffalo, the Buffalo Public Schools, Computers for Children and EPIC (Every Person Influences Children).
  • Donation to UB Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics to Fund New Design Concept
    11/28/00
    Television and computer screens that would be lighter, brighter and thinner -- that's the goal behind a $100,000 donation to the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics from AKT, Inc., the world's leading supplier of CVD systems, processes and services to the flat-panel-display manufacturing industry.
  • UB Receives Kresge Challenge Grant to Support Center for Drug Discovery and Experimental Therapeutics
    11/28/00
    The prestigious Kresge Foundation has approved a $500,000 Science Initiative grant -- a first for the University at Buffalo -- for UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  • Concern for Orphans Prompts a $250,000 Bequest Pledge to UB’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center
    11/15/00
    With the goal of improving living conditions in Southeast Asia, Nila T. Gnamm, retired civil servant, University at Buffalo alumna and world traveler, has pledged $250,000 to the College of Arts and Sciences to support research initiatives of UB's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center.
  • $1 Million Gift to UB Medical School Creates New Professorship in Ophthalmology
    11/9/00
    The University at Buffalo has received a $1 million gift to endow a professorship in its School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in memory of internationally known ophthalmologist, eye surgeon and UB alumnus Meyer H. Riwchun, M.D.
  • Datacard Chairman, UB Alumnus, Pledges $1 Million to UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    11/1/00
    Global business leader and engineer Hatim A. Tyabji, chairman of DataCard, has pledged a $1 million bequest to the University at Buffalo for an endowed fund for a professorship in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in honor of his wife.