Stephanie Mucha and her late husband, Joseph, lived near the University at Buffalo’s South Campus for decades and enjoyed visiting with students and faculty during evening walks on campus. The couple vowed to someday support the university.

While working as a practical nurse at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Buffalo, Stephanie watched Wilson Greatbatch implant the first pacemaker in a dog. The Muchas subsequently purchased several shares of a company—later known as Medtronic—that marketed the device.

That investment and others made it possible for the Muchas to follow through on their vow to support the university.

Their long record of generous giving includes support for the Stephanie T. Niciszewska Mucha and Joseph J. Mucha Dean’s Suite in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The gift is an enduring testimony to the Muchas’ belief in the power of higher education to transform our world, and the role health-care education plays in that transformation.