Downtown

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

Buffalo鈥檚 renaissance: Top urban planner reflects on years of work in a changing city
10/2/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Cranes are rising in downtown Buffalo, and with them, the mood of the city is changing. For the first time in decades, attitudes are bullish, says Robert G. Shibley, dean of the 蜜桃传媒 School of Architecture and Planning and one of the region’s preeminent urban thinkers.
Media advisory: Students from across U.S. to showcase research they conducted in Buffalo
7/31/13
On Friday, Aug. 2, more than 100 student scientists from across the country will convene in downtown Buffalo to show off posters describing the results of research they completed in regional labs.
UB Educational Opportunity Center opens new home and renews commitment to underserved students
6/14/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The 蜜桃传媒 Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) opened its new home today, a move that allows the center to take a greater role in serving Buffalo’s downtown community and expand programming for students who may not have access to traditional educational resources.
Media Advisory: Buffalo鈥檚 next high-tech entrepreneurs put ideas to the test at Pre-Seed Workshop
6/11/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Ten budding entrepreneurs in the life sciences and high-tech fields will evaluate their ideas in a risk-free environment at a Pre-Seed Workshop hosted by the 蜜桃传媒’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
Community Relations office opens in Downtown Gateway
5/16/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – With UB’s presence growing in downtown Buffalo, there’s a need for enhanced two-way communication with the surrounding neighborhoods. As a result, UB opened a new Community Relations Office in the Downtown Gateway building at 77 Goodell St., formerly the site of the M. Wile building.
High-tech entrepreneurship program announces 2013 graduating class
5/16/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The 蜜桃传媒 School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences celebrated the High-Tech CEL class of 2013 at a reception on May 15 at the UB Downtown Gateway.
Media Advisory: UB workshop invites public to help initiate community-based health research
5/15/13
WHAT: A free public workshop sponsored by the 蜜桃传媒 Civic Engagement and Public Policy (CEPP) Research Initiative. Participants will propose and discuss new community-based participatory research projects to improve health in Buffalo and Western New York.
UB and St. John Baptist panel releases report on creation of economic opportunities for residents of neighborhoods bordering Buffalo鈥檚 medical campus
4/22/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Economic Opportunity Panel (EOP), appointed by the 蜜桃传媒 and St. John Baptist Fruit Belt Community Development Corp. to assess how the opportunities created by the sale of the McCarley Gardens housing complex could be more accessible to the residents of McCarley Gardens and the city’s Fruit Belt, released its report today.
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 蜜桃传媒’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).
UB unveils dramatic design for new downtown medical school
4/10/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The 蜜桃传媒 publicly unveiled today the dramatic design for its new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building to be constructed on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo.