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Students participate in a sustainability forum, one of the many ways in which the UB community keeps its pulse on topics and issues in sustainability.

There’s a lot happening in sustainability at UB. Visit this page for the latest news and updates.

  • UB recognizes 2024 SLICE winners
    4/30/24

    This year's 2024 SLICE winners have been announced! With two new categories - the Alumni and Climate Justices awards - these awards recognize exemplary efforts by university community members to express UB’s continuing efforts to improve its status as a leading sustainability institution across the nation.

  • Team says ‘cheeze’ to win UB entrepreneurship competition
    4/25/24

    First-year MBA students Matthew Mullens and Neharika Korati have won the 2024 Panasci competition, an inititiative that aims to maximize the entreprenurial spirit of students and create viable businesses in Western New York. The company, Empasta - a plant-based, cheese-alternative sauce - secured $25,000 in capital funding and $40,000 in in-kind services to further develop and expand their product offering.

  • UB chemist studying environmental pollutants receives national awards
    4/25/24

    UB chemistry professor Emanuela Gionfriddo has been recognized for her devlopment of measurement science with two national awards. Her work focuses on improving the precision of measurements while at the same time 'greening' her lab - using minimal amounts of toxic chemicals and producing limited laboratory waste, reducing her overall carbont footprint.

  • UB celebrates Earth Day with climate action update
    4/22/24

    Over 200 UB faculty, staff, and students gathered on April 22nd - Earth Day - to learn more about the climate action work being done across the university. Milestones in the South Campus decarbonization plan, development of the unviersity's fleet EV charging lot, and waste diversion goals and current progress, among other topics, were showcased. 

  • UB team receives funding to demonstrate effectiveness of ‘food-is-medicine’ in health care
    4/18/24

    New grant funding provided by the American Heart Association will supply a UB research team with the capital resources to study the clinical effectiveness of “food-is-medicine” programming, a food-prescription initiative geared towards older adults.

  • Fifteen students receive SUNY Chancellor’s Award
    4/18/24

    Fifteen students from UB have been recognized for their outstanding achievements in leadership, community service, campus involvement, or the arts, earning the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest student award offered by SUNY. 

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