UB Neighbor South Campus Edition is a UB publication aimed at providing the most up-to-date news on UB development, projects and collaborations that affect our South Campus neighbors. Released several times each year, the UB Neighbor is available for pickup at Allen Hall on South Campus, and at various neighborhood businesses. This newsletter currently goes out to over 18,000 households within and around the South Campus communities.
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Buffalo Public Schools STEM Experience
Buffalo Public Schools STEM Experience is an expansion on BPS STEM Week which occurred in April 2014. SUNY Trustee Eunice Lewin initiated the idea in order to improve the STEM education pipeline between the WNY region’s SUNY schools and Buffalo Public Schools. It also was designed to bring increased awareness of the need for education in STEM fields. In 2014, the program expanded to be more school-year-round. It also includes a speakers bureau as well as a reading component with the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System joining the effort. STEM Week 2015 took place March 14-20, 2015, beginning with the ISEP (Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership) program’s Science Summit. It included school-based activities and two large events for a few hundred (each event) students from BPS elementary and high schools. Additional locations: Buffalo Public Schools; Buffalo Museum of Science; Roswell Park Cancer Institute Auditorium; Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System
2014-2015 Campaign for the Community
This project is an annual universitywide initiative among the employees of UB to raise charitable contributions for United Way of Buffalo and Erie County and New York State Employees Federated Appeal (NYSEFA). Additional locations: Downtown Campus; North Campus; South Campus
Universtywide School Supply Drive
The School Supply Drive is a two-month universitywide charitable drive for school supplies to benefit pre-K through eighth grade students at schools situated around our three campuses: Futures Academy, Bilingual Center, Martin Luther King Multicultural Institute, Highgate Heights Elementary and Westminster Community Charter School. UB employees drop off items in the designated collection boxes throughout the North, South and Downtown campuses that include paper, pencils, rulers, planners, markers, folders, and more. The 2013 program doubled in size from the previous year–with an unprecedented amount of supplies donated and distributed.
UB Neighbor Downtown Edition (newsletter)
UB Neighbor Downtown Edition is a UB publication aimed at providing the most up-to-date news on UB development, projects and collaborations that affect our downtown neighbors. Released several times each year, the UB Neighbor is available for pickup at the UB Downtown Gateway, 77 Goodell St., and at the Innovation Center, 640 Ellicott St. This newsletter currently goes out to over 9,000 households within and around the downtown communities.
Universitywide Adopt-a-Family
Coordinated by the Office of Community Relations, UB’s Universitywide Adopt-a-Family helps make the holidays a little warmer and brighter for a number of local families in need. The Office of Community Relations collaborates with local nonprofits to identify needy families; those families are matched with participating UB departments to provide items from their wish lists. Since 2008, the program continues to grow, averaging over 20 participating departments and matched families each year. Additional location: Downtown Campus