Downtown

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

  • UB and BNMC give Fruit Belt leaders tools to succeed
    3/29/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Leaders from across the City of Buffalo and UB joined together Wednesday to congratulate the graduates of a leadership training program offered to two-dozen members of the city’s historic Fruit Belt neighborhood near the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC).
  • Fruit Belt residents graduate from leadership program offered by UB and other BNMC stakeholders
    3/27/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Improving life in Buffalo’s Fruit Belt is the goal of 24 residents, business owners, parishioners and property owners in the neighborhood who are graduating from a leadership training program provided by the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Inc., Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Kaleida Health.
  • First Niagara provides land for new UB medical school project
    3/27/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – The ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ 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. 
  • UB Takes Historic First Step to Acquire Downtown Buffalo Properties on which New Medical School will be Built
    11/15/12
    The ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Biosciences Incubator Welcomes First Companies
    10/24/12
    The ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Biosciences Incubator has selected its first tenants: AccuTheranostics, AndroBioSys and Ceno Technologies, three companies that will benefit from the facility's location at UB's Clinical and Translational Research Center on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC).
  • Progress Report: Tripathi Discusses UB 2020, NYSUNY 2020
    9/19/12
    As Satish K. Tripathi begins his second academic year as president of the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, he is working with faculty, staff and students to move ahead with the next phase of the UB 2020 plan for academic excellence. He answers a few questions about UB 2020 and NYSUNY 2020, and their transformative impact on the university.
  • Central Library Exhibition of Proposed Medical School Designs Calls for Public Input
    5/23/12
    The Central Branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library will host an exhibition of work by four elite international architectural teams produced for the competition to design the new downtown ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Selects an Architecture Team to Lead Design of New Medical School Downtown
    5/17/12
    After an international competition that focused the expertise of four elite architectural teams on design possibilities for a new ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ school of medicine in downtown Buffalo, UB announced today the selection of the winning team.
  • Adams Named Director of UB's Educational Opportunity Center in Downtown Buffalo
    4/20/12
    Julius Gregg Adams, PhD, has been named director of the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½'s Educational Opportunity Center (EOC), which provides programs to prepare low-income and non-traditional students for higher education and jobs.
  • UB Outlines Role in Plans for a Complete Overhaul of Perry Choice Community
    1/20/12
    The Center for Urban Studies, a research and community development unit in the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Architecture and Planning, has joined itself to a massive effort: a proposal by the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority to restructure, redevelop and rehabilitate downtown Buffalo's seriously declining Commodore Perry neighborhood and turn it into the vibrant, sustainable community it once was.