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UB's sustainable initatives have earned the institution accreditation and a Gold rating by AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, further elevating its reputation as a place for innovative green social engineering!

Urban design students have once again shown what UB has to offer to the community. This month, students submitted proposals for transforming vacant spaces on Buffalo’s East Side between Zenner and Kilhoffer Street into areas for urban infrastructure and potential housing.

UB has once again been recognized as a leader in sustainability in higher education, garnering high marks in two recent rankings. UB fared well across a number of categories in the Times Higher Education 2022 Impact Rankings, which assess universities around the globe against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

UB will receive $4.5 million from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to create a new research center for improving plastic recycling.

When UB graduate student Matt Taboni began working at a local bakery in the summer of 2020, he realized how much food was wasted when he cut off the tops of cakes and tossed them into the trash. There wasn’t a proper system to store the scraps and donate them to local food pantries.

UB Sustainability worked with various campus partners to host the Earth Day event as part of Sustainability Month at UB. Billed as a candid conversation, the program challenged members of the campus community to think about what they might be willing to sacrifice to advance UB’s climate action plan (CAP) and its aggressive goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

Partnerships are a vital part of Sustainability Month at UB, and many of the signature events occurring across campus throughout April reflect the growing partnerships being built as the university strives toward implementation of its recently updated climate action plan and achieving climate neutrality by 2030.

After two years of virtual presentations, the Mobile Market Summit at UB will return to an in-person format March 29-30, with a virtual option as well.