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Highlighting the many ways the University at Buffalo is going about improving the health care of the community was the theme of the 2025 Harrington Lecture as part of UB’s Alumni Weekend.

Nora Yip, MD '00, recenty performed at a benefit concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Kleinhans Music Hall.  

Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Meyer H. Riwchun Endowed Chair Professor of ophthalmology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has received the 2025 Stockton Kimball Award in recognition of outstanding scientific achievement and service.

Two Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty members have been named SUNY Distinguished Professors, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.

A lot of medical students at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences conduct research during the summer after their first year of medical school, but not many get to be co-authors of an article in a peer-reviewed journal as a result.

Samantha Schwarz, a doctoral candidate in the neuroscience program at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a highly competitive, two-year fellowship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

The move strengthens the two organizations’ mission to advance medical science research and education in WNY and beyond.

The move strengthens the two organizations’ mission to advance medical science research and education in WNY and beyond.