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M&T Bank has established a $250,000 endowed fund for SUNY Buffalo State's new Science and Mathematics Complex. The gift, distributed in $50,000 increments over five years, will go toward the repair and replacement of science equipment for the new building.
"The M&T scientific instrument maintenance and repair endowment will provide a dedicated source of funding to keep these newly equipped laboratories running smoothly," said Mark Severson, dean

The 14th ranked Medaille College men's volleyball team will play host to the 12-team United Volleyball Conference (UVC) Crossover Tournament today and tomorrow.  This is the first of two crossovers that the conference will host in 2013. The tournament will have 16 matches played over a two-day span in the newly expanded Sullivan Center on Medaille's Buffalo Campus.  The tournament will feature seven of the nation's Top 15 teams in this week's American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) rankings.

Most tech conferences cost you or your boss money. Most tech conferences don't have presenters show up in full Joker-in-The Dark Knight makeup. And most tech conferences have their presentations, their social opportunities, and their attendance list plotted out months in advance.

That's not the case at BarCamp Buffalo, which is rebooting and launching today, Saturday (Feb. 2, 2013) at Medaille College. Everyone participates in some way in the presentations and learning, and everything is taught by people who attend. A BarCamp

Buffalo State College is celebrating the completion of rehabilitation work on the second floor of Rockwell Hall.  Utilizing space created by the relocation of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the $6.8 million project includes expanded laboratories and specialty resource/studio spaces for the Art Conservation Department, eight new "smart" general purpose classrooms and a new recital hall and recording studio for the Music Department.

Architectural Resources collaborated with project representatives from the State University Construction Fund

Medaille College freshmen will present their Community 101 projects, which are multimedia poster presentations inspired by the history, ecology, technology and urban landscape of the City of Buffalo this Friday.  

More than 350 students will be showcasing the work they did over their first semester to highlight their hands-on collaboration with significant groups in Buffalo, such as Forest Lawn Cemetery, Irish Classical Theatre, The Buffalo Zoo, PUSH Buffalo, Buffalo Central Terminal, Darwin D. Martin House, and Vive, Inc., which

'Tis the season to be giving, and for more than a decade, the New York Iota chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has taken this to heart and to feet, aiming to raise awareness and money for youth AIDS services and education with its annual Tree Trot for Youth AIDS.

During the event, a Christmas tree is carried by foot from Fredonia State College to Lafayette Square in downtown Buffalo. This year's event was held on Saturday, December 1st and marked the 12th annual Tree Trot for Youth AIDS organized and ran by the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

The journey is a daunting 42

The University at Buffalo 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).
AccuTheranostics, previously based in the UB Technology Incubator at Baird Research Park in Amherst, is dedicated to helping cancer patients personalize chemotherapy treatment to achieve the best possible results.
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An Urban Land Institute (ULI) Advisory Panel has some ideas on how to reuse a dead, full block downtown mall into a mixed-use center of activity.  Main Place Mall in Buffalo?  No, the former Rainbow Centre Shopping Mall in downtown Niagara Falls. 
One-third of the long-dead Rainbow Centre mall is back in use.  Niagara County Community College's new $26 million Niagara Falls Culinary Institute opened in September

The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will become the first professional school in three decades to move back to UB's South Campus and into the City of Buffalo when UB celebrates the grand opening of John and Editha Kapoor Hall today on UB's South Campus.  UB alumnus and donor John N. Kapoor, PhD '72, spoke at this morning's ceremony.  Kapoor is president of E. J. Financial Enterprises Inc., a venture capital firm located in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Kapoor Hall Facts:
• Building named for donors John N. Kapoor and his late wife, Editha
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The University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) has a new home in the UB Downtown Gateway.  The CEL, which promotes business growth through leadership development and experiential learning, has moved from its former location in the Jacobs Executive Development Center (also known as the Butler Mansion) to newly renovated space in the Gateway at 77 Goodell Street.
"This strategic move brings the CEL into the heart of a region where innovation is flourishing," said Arjang Assad, dean of the UB School of Management. "The

Niagara Falls is kicking-off a program to lure young professionals into the city by helping them pay their student loans.  The $200,000 program would guarantee $7,000 over two years to 20 college graduates on the condition they buy a home or rent an apartment in downtown Niagara Falls.  City officials see "knowledge professionals," and their discretionary income, as the difference between any city's success and failure as a living destination.
The program aims to not only bring young people into the city, but to revitalize a struggling neighborhood north

High school students and college undergraduates dedicated to changing the world will have the chance to see how a legal degree and legal expertise can lead to meaningful social change through a new UB interdisciplinary summer program to be held at the Chautauqua Institution.

The seminar, "Lawyers as Agents for Social Change," scheduled for Aug. 22-26, brings UB faculty together with other distinguished speakers to explore the role lawyers can have on changing policy

The University at Buffalo is launching a new doctoral program in Urban and Regional Planning in its School of Architecture and Planning.  The program will begin in September and will be the only such program in the State University of New York system. UB is particularly interested in recruiting students from the U.S., Europe, China, Korea and South Asia.
The new program will emphasize research and learning in areas in which the UB school and its planning faculty have garnered international distinction: assisting declining cities and distressed urban communities;

The Central Library is hosting an exhibition of work by four elite international architectural teams produced for the competition to design the new downtown University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
The exhibition, on the main floor of the library, will run May 25 to June 8, but will be closed on Memorial Day. The library is open 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursdays.
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After winning a global design ideas competition, HOK was selected to design the new University at Buffalo (UB) School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on its downtown campus. Competition finalists included Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and Cannon Design, Rafael Vinoly Architects with Foit-Albert Associates, and Grimshaw and Davis Brody Bond.  
HOK will begin to create a final design in coming weeks that addresses the

After an international competition that focused the expertise of four elite architectural teams on design possibilities for a new University at Buffalo school of medicine in downtown Buffalo, UB announced today the selection of the winning team. 
HOK, one of the world's leading architectural firms, with a global portfolio of health sciences facilities and academic buildings and an international reputation for sustainable design, has been selected to help produce the final design for the new UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara

Buffalo State College's new $110 million Science and Mathematics Complex is taking shape.  The new building designed by Cannon-- a 224,000 sq.ft. facility over three levels-- will be home to the Chemistry, Biology, Earth Sciences and Science Education, Mathematics, and Physics departments, the Great Lakes Center, and a state-of-the-art planetarium.

Phase I of the project seen here, scheduled for completion this summer, includes a 96,000 sq.ft. addition along the west side of the existing Science Building that will house new teaching and research

UB Law School's Regional Economic Development class is bringing fresh economic development ideas to neighborhoods that need a boost.  The course lets students attempt to identify a real need in the community, apply the theory learned in the classroom and then design a plan that would address this need.  The following is a summary of a project completed by Michael Herberger, Ryan McCarthy, Jacob McNamara with simulations by Elnaz Haj Abotalebi. It is one of five reports completed

UB Law School's Regional Economic Development class is bringing fresh economic development ideas to neighborhoods that need a boost.  The course lets students attempt to identify a real need in the community, apply the theory learned in the classroom and then design a plan that would address this need.  The following is a summary of a project completed by David Burress, Megan VanWie and Christina Akers with simulations by Troy Joseph.  It is one of five reports completed