Philanthropy

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

  • Fannie Mae Corp. Contributes $20,000 To UCI Housing Project
    5/12/00
    Fannie Mae Corp. has contributed an additional $20,000 to help the University Community Initiative (UCI) continue with its housing acquisition, rehabilitation and resale program in the University Heights neighborhood of Buffalo.
  • New Gift From Anonymous Donor, Expanded Support For UB Distinguished Honors Scholars Program
    5/11/00
    The University at Buffalo's Distinguished Honors Scholars Program will graduate its largest group of honors scholars -- 23 -- this month, thanks to an anonymous donor whose scholarship gifts are setting a precedent.
  • Delaware North’s CEO Donates To UB
    5/11/00
    Jeremy M. Jacobs, Sr., chairman and CEO of Delaware North Companies, Inc. -- a $1 billion-plus diversified international holding company owned by Jacobs -- continues his long-standing commitment to the University at Buffalo with an annual $100,000 gift.
  • John, Janet Sung Donate $1 Million For Scholarships In UB School Of Medicine And Biomedical Sciences
    4/13/00
    A Western New York entrepreneurial couple who have worked steadfastly to improve health care in Western New York are giving a $1 million cash scholarship gift to the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Grateful Surgeon And Alumna Gives Scholarship Gift To UB’s School Of Medicine And Biomedical Sciences
    3/24/00
    University at Buffalo alumna Adele M. Gottschalk, M.D. '67, has given a $225,000 gift to support scholarships for students in UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Gift From Myricom Speeds Up UB’s Supercomputer
    3/15/00
    You can never have a computer that's too fast. That's the thinking of University at Buffalo researchers in the university's Center for Computational Research (CCR), who received a $139,680 equipment donation that will speed up processor communications nearly 100-fold. Myricom, Inc. has donated leading-edge Myrinet interfaces and switches that have been integrated into the CCR dual-boot Linux/Solaris Sun Microsystems cluster.
  • Fund to Help Indochinese Students Pursue Study in U.S.
    3/3/00
    A 1999 trip to Cambodia -- a country whose economy and educational system was left in ruins by the Khmer Rouge genocide of the late 1970s -- has prompted a University at Buffalo administrator to create a fund to help meet an urgent educational need in Indochina, one of the poorest regions on earth.
  • “SNAP” Offers Computers To Financially Strapped Freshmen
    2/28/00
    The so-called "digital divide" between the "haves" -- those who can afford computer access -- and the "have nots" has been erased, at least in the freshman class at the University at Buffalo. Thanks to the university's Students Needing Assistance Program (SNAP) and its corporate partners financial hardship simply is not an issue for 264 freshmen, at least where computers are concerned.
  • Gift To Fund Student Center In UB School Of Management
    2/15/00
    J. Grant Hauber, an alumnus of the University at Buffalo School of Management, has given $500,000 to the school for construction of a state-of-the-art student center.
  • Processors Donated By SGI Tackle “Standing Room Only” Issue At UB Center For Computational Research
    1/28/00
    An extremely enthusiastic response by University at Buffalo faculty to the year-old, high-performance computing facilities in the Center for Computational Research (CCR) has prompted the center to double the capacity of its most powerful machine, a 64-processor SGI Origin2000 supercomputer. By acquiring 64 additional processors and a high-speed interconnect, the CCR now has a 128-processor Origin2000 supercomputer.