Philanthropy

News about generous gifts and our philanthropic programs. (see all topics)

  • Verizon Grant to Help Buffalo School Children Read
    12/20/00
    Reading made easy through technology -- that's the plan behind a $100,000 gift from Verizon to a collaborative literacy project of the Center for Applied Technologies in Education at the University at Buffalo, the Buffalo Public Schools, Computers for Children and EPIC (Every Person Influences Children).
  • Donation to UB Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics to Fund New Design Concept
    11/28/00
    Television and computer screens that would be lighter, brighter and thinner -- that's the goal behind a $100,000 donation to the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics from AKT, Inc., the world's leading supplier of CVD systems, processes and services to the flat-panel-display manufacturing industry.
  • UB Receives Kresge Challenge Grant to Support Center for Drug Discovery and Experimental Therapeutics
    11/28/00
    The prestigious Kresge Foundation has approved a $500,000 Science Initiative grant -- a first for the University at Buffalo -- for UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  • Concern for Orphans Prompts a $250,000 Bequest Pledge to UB’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center
    11/15/00
    With the goal of improving living conditions in Southeast Asia, Nila T. Gnamm, retired civil servant, University at Buffalo alumna and world traveler, has pledged $250,000 to the College of Arts and Sciences to support research initiatives of UB's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center.
  • $1 Million Gift to UB Medical School Creates New Professorship in Ophthalmology
    11/9/00
    The University at Buffalo has received a $1 million gift to endow a professorship in its School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in memory of internationally known ophthalmologist, eye surgeon and UB alumnus Meyer H. Riwchun, M.D.
  • Datacard Chairman, UB Alumnus, Pledges $1 Million to UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    11/1/00
    Global business leader and engineer Hatim A. Tyabji, chairman of DataCard, has pledged a $1 million bequest to the University at Buffalo for an endowed fund for a professorship in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in honor of his wife.
  • UB School of Pharmacy Alumnus Gives $5 Million to Strengthen Research Core in Pharmaceutical Science
    10/23/00
    Gifted venture strategist and scientist John N. Kapoor -- founder, chairman and CEO of E.J. Financial Enterprises, Inc. -- has given $5 million to the University at Buffalo, a gift that will help strengthen the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences' research core, provide resources to create a state-of-the-art instrumentation center and fortify the pharmaceutical-science faculty.
  • UB Announces $250 Million Campaign; Largest Ever Conducted by Public University in New York, New England
    10/20/00
    A national and international leader in higher education, the University at Buffalo announced today that it is launching a $250 million campaign, the largest ever conducted by a public university in New York and New England.
  • Rich Family Honors Parents with Lead Gift to Fund Alumni House at University at Buffalo
    10/20/00
    Robert E. Rich Jr. and David A. Rich, together with their families, have pledged a significant gift to the University at Buffalo for an alumni building named in honor of their parents, Janet and Robert E. Rich Sr.
  • Wife of Dedicated UB Alumnus Funds Football Scholarship in Memory of her Husband
    9/19/00
    A loyal friend of the University at Buffalo, Kathleen M. Shepard, is making a major gift to the UB Division of Athletics for an endowed football scholarship.