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News about UB’s Downtown Campus and neighboring communities. (see all topics)

Street medicine program wins prestigious grant, seeks another
4/25/17
UB HEALS received an award from the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
Marathon poetry reading will recite all of Emily Dickinson poems
4/17/17
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Nancy Wells, UB’s vice president for philanthropy and alumni relations, and Robin Shulze, dean of the UB College of Arts and Sciences, will be among those participating in this year’s Emily Dickinson Community Marathon Reading on April 22.
Media Advisory: To better understand patients’ lives, UB medical students will interact with and reflect on city’s diverse communities
4/11/17
Students will meet with residents from a variety of Buffalo neighborhoods.
RIA awarded NIH grant to help combat college sexual assault
4/4/17
A two-year, $700,000 grant will help researchers at the UB Research Institute on Addictions develop effective strategies to help prevent sexual assault on college campuses.
UB, NYSTAR pair to extend WNY Incubator Network (WIN) to 2021
3/13/17
The extension includes annual funding of $250,000.
Wanted: Local high-tech startups to apply for $25K pitch competition
3/13/17
Applications are now open for the annual Bright Buffalo Niagara (BBN) Entrepreneur Expo to be held on Wednesday, June 28.
Making it personal at the UB and Roswell Park-hosted Genome Day
3/2/17
The program promotes genomic and bioinformatics literacy to 400 Buffalo Public Schools students.
Reality literacy needed to combat truthiness and alternative facts
2/21/17
The emergence of fake news has complicated the media market in ways that few observers anticipated and “reality literacy” is among the skills necessary to navigate toward the truth, according to UB's David Castillo.
When treating brain aneurysms, two isn’t always better than one
2/16/17
Study finds one compressed stent is sometimes more effective than two overlapping stents.
RIA welcomes experts on alcohol, opioids and neuroscience for spring seminars
2/9/17
The Spring Seminar Series at the UB Research Institute on Addictions will feature national experts exploring the topics of alcohol and suicide, the neuroscience behind addiction, and opioid addiction and treatment.

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