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The President's Advisory Council on Race has been an active initative on campus aiming to fulfill several equity-based goals, such as increasing student body diversity and faculty from underrepresented groups, among others. This year's town hall meeting showcased what is to expected to be an annual report on the progress being made as a result of this council.

UB has been awarded an EPA grant to monitor the air quality index among Buffalo's East Side, an underserved area whose inhabitants suffer from negative health outcomes at a disproportionate rate compared to residents of other opportunity-rich neighborhoods around the city. 

As sustainability makes its way into the mainstream as a metric of business performance, UB alumni and other local leaders have many words of wisdom to share towards local businesses as they attempt to operate within a sustainable framework.

Black Men in White Coats, a national organization dedicated to increasing the number of Black men in the field of medicine, has been established at the Jacobs School of Medicine. The official name of this chapter is the "Jonathan Daniels Chapter of Black Men in White Coats" in rememberance of Dr. Johnathan Daniels, associate director of admissions for the Jacobs School who tragically passed away in the summer of 2022.

A new study co-authored by UB Professor Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk is making waves among the field of medical sociology as it explores racial and ethnic disparities in pain prevalence. This research will be used to identify which groups are most at risk to needing access to pain management and prevention strategies. 

UB's Department of Surgery is helping to codify East Side community resilience by offering free clinics that provides physicals, disease screenings, and referrals to residents of the Fruit Belt, Cold Spring, and Masten neighborhoods. These clinics - named Kickstart Buffalo - are working to emphasize community care by acknowledging disparities in healthcare access suffered by underserved communities. 

The Jacobs School of Medicine has received the National Institute of Health's (NIH) R25 grant to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the biomedical informatics and data science discipline, furthering UB's reputation as an equitable supplier of innovative strategies in the greater field of medicine. 

UB's RENEW Institute has been awarded over $2.6 million in grants by the National Science Foundation and the Env. Protection Agency to continue their work on developing self-sustaining water supplies, soil health monitoring systems, and research in understanding mixture toxicity in the breakdown process of 'forever chemicals.'