Downtown Campus News

Children participate in second city-wide Science Week.
Skating, reading, extracting DNA – students engage in Science Week ’15
3/12/15

Buffalo Sabres and libraries join UB and partners in expanded STEM programs for K–12 students.

UB medical school mockup building.
Medical school mockup passes rain and wind tests with flying colors
3/31/15

The mockup, built at the Construction Research Laboratory in Miami, provides a sneak peek of what the new UB medical school will look like.

Head shot of Norma Nowak, executive director of UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
UB and Roswell Park to welcome 400 Buffalo Public Schools students to Genome Day
3/13/15

Part of Science Week, the event will promote genomic and bioinformatics literacy.

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43North winners and Brazilian business approved for START-UP NY via UB
3/4/15

The companies expect to create 40 jobs and invest $12.5 million in Western New York within five years.

News Conference: UB leaders, medical campus partners and Congressman Higgins to discuss importance of $16 million NIH grant
8/12/15

Leaders from the University at Buffalo, Kaleida Health and Roswell Park Cancer Institute will brief the media about the importance to the community of the $16 million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) announced yesterday by the National Institutes of Health.

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Local 43North semifinalists to get boost from Pitch Prep
8/4/15

The events will help budding entrepreneurs sharpen their business skills and, ultimately, win some of the contest’s $5 million in cash prizes.

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11 companies, including 43North winners, approved for START-UP NY through UB
1/28/15

The companies expect to create 164 jobs and invest $8.7 million in Western New York.

Norma Nowak, xecutive director of the University at Buffalo’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
Norma Nowak named executive director of UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences
1/29/15

Norma Jean Nowak, PhD, a renowned research scientist, educator, collaborator and entrepreneur, has been named executive director of the University at Buffalo’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (CBLS).

The front page of the Buffalo News reports on Gov. Cuomo's START-UP NY and its ties to UB
6/5/14

Cuomo announced to a standing-room-only gathering that the first eight companies with ties to UB have been chosen to be part of the program. President Tripathi is quoted.

UB Shares in Largest Award in History of Oishei Foundation
3/6/03
The John R. Oishei Foundation today announced grants totaling $9 million to the three partners in the Buffalo Life Sciences Complex. The University at Buffalo, which previously received $1,542,000 for the recruitment, salaries and research of top-level scientists at the UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, will receive an additional $2 million for those purposes. Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute each will receive $3.5 million for buildings being constructed as part of the complex.