Philanthropy

The inaugural University at Buffalo Scholarship Gala will be held on Nov. 4. to raise funds for undergraduate and graduate student scholarships across the university.

Kathryn R. Costello has been appointed vice president for development at the University at Buffalo. Her appointment is effective Sept. 1.

The worldwide public accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP and its staff members contributed $25,950 to the University at Buffalo in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006.

A new sports performance training facility offering twice the space for physical training by University at Buffalo student-athletes will open this fall thanks to a $500,000 gift from UB alumnus Robert G. Morris and his wife, Carol L. Morris.

Margaret McGlynn, president of the vaccine division of Merck & Co., is a second-generation graduate of the University at Buffalo following her late father's lead and honoring his memory with a start-up gift to establish the Edward J. Hempling Community Pharmacy Education Fund in UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

To help ensure that Buffalo Niagara has ready access to reliable information on critical regional issues, the John R. Oishei Foundation has awarded the University at Buffalo's Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth $336,371 to develop phase two of the recently launched Regional Knowledge Network.

A former post-doctoral fellow at University at Buffalo has provided a gift to support young researchers in honor of the training in the field of pulmonary medicine, environmental physiology and bioengineering that he received at the Center for Research and Education in Special Environments and Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Giving so that others can communicate, DynaVox Technologies has donated equipment and systems valued at nearly $116,000 to the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences.

The UB Anderson Gallery, the University at Buffalo's art museum, has received the archive -- personal journals, travel slides and other artifacts -- and seven works of art by the late artist and UB alumnus Allan D'Arcangelo (1930-98). The gifts significantly contribute to UB Anderson Gallery's continuing endeavor to be an academic resource for students and scholars by supplementing its growing collection and archive on contemporary art.

The Jacobs Neurological Institute of the University at Buffalo has received a $1.8 million, five-year grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to establish at Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo one of six Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Centers of Excellence that it is creating in the United States.