Campus News

Campus news, including news about university initiatives, construction, new centers and programs, and UB leadership. (see all topics)

  • UB students save money with electronic textbooks
    4/18/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Darwinson Valdez figures he shaved $200 off the cost of textbooks this semester. Yet unlike his peers, some who don’t buy textbooks at all due their cost, the cash-strapped senior acquired everything his professors asked him to read.
  • UB and SUNY officials to conduct community forum with Fruit Belt residents to discuss medical school project
    4/10/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Community stakeholders from neighborhoods surrounding the University at Buffalo’s Downtown Campus will receive an update on UB’s plans to build a new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences downtown during a community forum at 7 p.m. tonight in the Gaylord Cary Conference Room at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (across from the main hospital).
  • Heavy lifting by UB students aims to help revive the Heights neighborhood
    4/3/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – They are called PULL projects – multiyear Pop-Up Living Laboratories – whose aim is to promote economic stabilization, neighborhood revitalization, crime reduction and a prosperous business district in the Heights neighborhood surrounding the University at Buffalo South Campus.  
  • First Niagara provides land for new UB medical school project
    3/27/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo and First Niagara Financial Group Inc. announced today that First Niagara has given to UB a parcel of land to be used in the construction of the university’s new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. 
  • Faculty appointments expand Law School’s global presence
    2/11/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Two University at Buffalo Law School professors are taking on expanded roles as the school works to extend its presence, not just regionally and nationally, but worldwide.
  • Needs of Frail People and Vulnerable Elders to be Focus of New UB Institute
    12/12/12
    The University at Buffalo has announced the launch of a new international institute designed to meet the unique needs of one of the most vulnerable populations: persons with chronic illness, frailty and physical or cognitive impairments.
  • UB Police Department Reaches Out to Community with Citizens' Police Academy
    12/3/12
    The University at Buffalo Police Department holds its annual Citizens' Police Academy starting Wednesday, Feb. 13th. The seven-week program, which gives the university community an in-depth look into the working life of a police officer, starts at Bissell Hall at the university's North Campus before moving to other locations during the course.
  • National Report Says UB International Students Brought $108 million to WNY Economy in 2011-12
    11/20/12
    The 5,357 international students who attended the University at Buffalo in the 2011-12 academic year and their dependents contributed approximately $108,419,700 to the Western New York economy according to the 2012 report issued by NAFSA: Association of International Educators this week.
  • UB Closes Shale Resources and Society Institute
    11/19/12
    In a letter to the campus community, University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi today announced his decision to close the Shale Resources and Society Institute, effective immediately.
  • UB Takes Historic First Step to Acquire Downtown Buffalo Properties on which New Medical School will be Built
    11/15/12
    The University at Buffalo today announced the purchase of land at 960 Washington St., the first of several parcels it is assembling to make way for construction of the new $375 million University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.