University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
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University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, also commonly known as the University at Buffalo or UB, is a public
research university and a "University Center" in the State University of New York
(SUNY) system. The university was founded by Millard Fillmore
in 1846. UB has multiple campuses located in Buffalo
and Amherst
, New York
, United States
. Offering 84 bachelor's, 184 master's and 78 doctoral degrees, it is the largest of the four comprehensive university centers within the SUNY system. The University at Buffalo is the largest public university in the northeastern United States (comprising New York state and the New England
region).
From its inception in 1846 until 1962, the institution was a private university: the University of Buffalo. When it became a state university, the new name became the "State University of New York at Buffalo". The administration uses the name "University at Buffalo", which parallels the three other comprehensive university centers of the SUNY system — Albany
, Binghamton
and Stony Brook.
According to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
, the University at Buffalo is a Research University with Very High Research Activity (RU/VH). In 1989, UB was elected to the Association of American Universities
, which represents 61 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. UB's alumni and faculty have produced a U.S. President, a Prime Minister
, astronauts, Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize
winners, and other notable individuals in their fields. The University houses the largest state-operated medical school
and features the only state law school
, architecture
and urban planning
school, and pharmacy
school in the state of New York. According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-2012, UB was ranked 201-225 worldwide among universities. In September 2011, UB was ranked as the 54th best public college and the 111th best college in the nation by U.S. News and World Report
and property was purchased at North Street and College, (the site of the later YMCA), on the north side of the Allentown district
. This university was chartered by the state on April 8, 1836. However, the project collapsed and no classes were ever offered, and only the layout of College Street remains.
The University of Buffalo was founded on May 11, 1846 as a private medical school to train the doctors for the communities of Buffalo
, Niagara Falls
, and surrounding villages. James Platt White was instrumental in obtaining a charter for the University of Buffalo from the state legislature in 1846. He also taught the first class of 89 men in obstetrics. State Assemblyman Nathan K. Hall
was also "particularly active in procuring the charter".
The doors first opened to students in 1847 and after associating with a hospital for teaching purposes, the first class of students graduated the medical school in July 1847. The first chancellor of the University was future President of the United States Millard Fillmore
. Upon his ascension to the presidency after President Taylor's death, Fillmore stayed on as part-time chancellor. Fillmore's name now graces the continuing education school Millard Fillmore College located on the South Campus as well as the Millard Fillmore Academic Center, an academic and administrative services building at the core of the residential Joseph Ellicott Complex, located on the North Campus.
"The first lectures were delivered in a wooden building over the old post office, corner of Seneca and Washington streets." The first building specially built for the university was a stone building at the corner of Main and Virginia streets, built in 1849-50, through donations, public subscription, and a state grant.
There were continuous expansions to the college medical programs, including a separate pharmacy division, which is now The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
In 1887 a law school was organized in Buffalo, which quickly became associated with Niagara University
just to the north of Buffalo. After four years, in 1891, the law school was acquired by the University of Buffalo as the University of Buffalo Law School
, which had a downtown Buffalo facility.
In the first few years of the 20th century, the University began planning for a comprehensive undergraduate college to complete the basic structure of a university, and in 1909 the University acquired the Erie County Almshouse grounds from the county of Erie, which became the University of Buffalo's initial campus. With that additional space, in 1915, the then University of Buffalo formed the College of Arts and Sciences, creating an undergraduate division in addition to its prior educational work in the licensed professional fields. During the late 1960s, the College of Arts and Sciences was divided into three separate schools: arts and letters, natural sciences and mathematics, and social sciences. During the 1998-1999 academic year, the three schools were reunited to re-create the existing College of Arts and Sciences.
In 1950, the Industrial Engineering
department branched off from the Mechanical Engineering
department. In 1956, a Civil Engineering
Department was formed under Lehigh University
graduate Robert L. Ketter
, who went on to become Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and later President of the University.
In 1959, WBFO
was launched as an AM radio station by UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and run by UB's students. The station has since become the launching pad of two modern National Public Radio personalities: Terri Gross and Ira Flatow
.
In 1961, the Western New York nuclear research program was created. This little known program installed a miniature, active nuclear fission reactor on the University's South (Main Street) Campus. This program was not particularly active, nor could it compete with other government-run research labs, consequently, the programs performed in this facility were abandoned somewhat shortly after its inception. This reactor was formally decommissioned in 2005 with little fanfare due to material security concerns.
In the early 1960s, the private University of Buffalo was purchased by and incorporated into the State University of New York
or SUNY system, and became known as the State University of New York at Buffalo, or SUNY at Buffalo, and more recently as the University at Buffalo. As a part of the agreement to merge the university into the SUNY system, the State began to build an extensive second campus for the university. In 1964, The State acquired several hundred acres in the town of Amherst
on the northeast of Buffalo, for development as a comprehensive campus for the most non-medical disciplines at University at Buffalo. This is often called the North Campus, and the center of most University at Buffalo activities. The North Campus project included several major buildings, dormitory complexes, a separate spur of the Interstate highway, and a new lake. The undergraduate college, the law school, and graduate schools were all moved to the new campus.
One of the keys to helping UB achieve the goals of the UB 2020 plan, proponents say, is the passage of S2020 and A2020 known as the UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act, by the New York State Legislature. On June 3, 2009 the State Senate passed S2020 and sent the bill to the Assembly for their consideration.
The current president, Satish K. Tripathi
, has continued his vocal support of UB 2020 and has been actively engaging in campus-wide discussion on the proposed tuition increases introduced by the bill.
Total R&D expenditures rose from $186.8 million to $259.0 million for FY 2001–04, ranking 58 under New York University
(NYU). It rose to $297,909,000 for the year 2006.
Historically, UB was a technology pioneer, offering an early Computer Science
major (distinct from a mathematics major). Additionally, UB played a significant role as a crucial internet hub for the eastern seaboard during the internet's inception. UB has invested in such commercially beneficial fields as medicine, biotechnology, and bioinformatics
.
Buffalo ranked 77-107 worldwide among universities in the social sciences in 2008 by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
University at Buffalo academic and professional faculty are represented by United University Professions. The two UUP chapters at the University at Buffalo are Health Sciences and Buffalo Center. United University Professions has over 34,000 members at 29 campuses of SUNY.
The University at Buffalo is also one of only two public schools in New York to have a medical school and a dental school, the other being the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the School of Management, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Graduate School of Education, as well as Lockwood Memorial Library, Capen Library, and many administrative offices, are located on UB's North Campus in Amherst, NY.
The North Campus is home to administrative and academic offices. The main buildings are arranged along one academic "spine", a second floor connecting corridor, that connects most of the main academic buildings. The whole campus covers 1192 acres (5 km²) with 146 buildings containing 6715492 sq ft (623,890 m²), 10 residence halls and 5 apartment complexes. Its immense size also necessitated the creation of a shuttle system circling the academic sector and surrounding areas including the administrative complex, located nearly a quarter mile from the central academic area. When originally built by the state of New York, the North Campus was provided with two Interstate exits, from I-290
and I-990, its own internal parkway, the John James Audubon Parkway, and two small lakes created from Ellicott Creek
.
The North Campus offers a variety of entertainment programming and activity for students. It contains the Student Union, which houses offices for the Student Association and student-interest clubs; Slee Hall, which presents contemporary and classical music concerts; Alumni Arena
, the home-court for University Athletics; the UB Center for the Arts
, a non-profit presenter of a wide variety of professional entertainment and UB Stadium, the 30,000 seat Football
Stadium.
. Its 53 buildings contain (3045198 sq ft (282,908 m²)) and include six resident halls. This campus is served by the northernmost subway station
on Buffalo's Niagara Frontier Metro Rail
system.
Today, the South Campus is generally a medical campus and it is the home of some of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the School of Public Health and Health Related Professions, the School of Nursing, the School of Dental Medicine, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. UB is currently in the planning and design phase of relocating the School of Pharmacy to Acheson Hall on the South Campus with 2010 as the target year. In addition, the University at Buffalo South Campus is the home of the WBFO
radio station, the University's biomedical science research complex, the Health Sciences Library and certain administrative offices. Additionally, 20 percent of UB's resident population continues to live in the original residential complexes located on the South (Main Street) Campus.
Adjacent to the UB South Campus is the UB Anderson Art Gallery, a converted elementary school with an all-glass atrium exhibit space.
and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
to compose the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus. Also located in the downtown area is UB's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA), Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) and the Jacobs Executive Development Center (JEDC). The campus includes six major properties and a total of 43 buildings, counting shared lease space (588506 sq ft (54,674 m²)).
In September 2007, UB added the former M. Wile and Company Factory Building
on the southeast corner of Goodell and Ellicott streets and the former Trico Products Corp. building complex
on the northwest corner of Goodell and Ellicott streets to its properties downtown. The UB Regional Institute, Center on Rehabilitation Synergy, and a number of pre-K-16 initiatives related to UB's civic engagement mission, such as the UB-Buffalo Public Schools Partnership office, are set to relocate to the first site. The latter location has been purchased to house additional biomedical- and life science-related businesses connected to the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus.
, as well as 14,000 employees, across three campuses in the last 160 years. In order to accommodate both students and faculty, the university is currently implementing a $4.5 million Comprehensive Physical Plan to help in growth as well as to best utilize and enhance current facilities. Connecting all three campuses, as well as the facilities UB uses, is also a major element of the project. The firm granted the contract to lead the project is Beyer Blinder Belle
.
The comprehensive physical planning process is broken into four phases. Currently, UB is implementing "phase one" by seeking input from the local and university communities to pinpoint issues, opportunities, and concerns related to this expansion. The project recognizes UB’s potential for excellence, in regard to the university's physical environment, by highlighting and evaluating various positive and negative attributes of the three campuses, including housing, circulation, functionality, landscape, and community interface.
has new concentrations in Labor and Employment Law and in Technology and Intellectual Property. In 2011, the University at Buffalo Law School
is ranked #84 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of top law programs.
was founded in 1892.
Graduate Division was founded in 1898 by the preeminent surgeon Dr. Roswell Park, it is the oldest comprehensive cancer center in the world.
#9 in the nation among schools with strong regional recruiting bases. The WSJ has ranked the UB School of Management as one of the world's best business schools for seven consecutive years. In addition, UB MBAs have been lauded in The Wall Street Journal rankings for their team skills and leadership potential.
Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the UB School of Management's full-time MBA program as one of the best in the nation, and the school's Professional MBA program is among the best part-time MBA programs in the U.S. Bloomberg Businessweek also ranked the UB School of Management for having one of the country's "Top Undergraduate Business Programs." In the recruiter component of the ranking, the UB School of Management was ranked #11.
The Financial Times has ranked the UB School of Management's Executive MBA program, offered in Buffalo and Singapore, as one of the world's best. The EMBA program placed #23 in the U.S. and #51 worldwide. Among the ranking’s many components, the UB School of Management’s EMBA program was ranked #23 for graduates’ salary growth, #7 for percentage of female students, #26 for percentage of female faculty, #55 for faculty research and #16 for percentage of international faculty.
Forbes magazine ranks the UB School of Management as one of the world's "Best Business Schools" based on the return on investment it provides MBA graduates.
The University at Buffalo School of Management has been ranked a "Best Business School" by U.S. News and World Report in its annual ranking of MBA programs. The UB School of Management was ranked #75 out of 437 MBA programs surveyed. The MBA ranking is part of U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” In addition to the ranking of full-time MBA programs, U.S. News ranked the UB School of Management’s Professional MBA program #73 in a specialty ranking of part-time MBA programs. U.S. News and World Report has also ranked the UB School of Management as one of the country’s "Best Undergraduate Business Programs" in the 2012 edition of “America’s Best Colleges.” The school was ranked #81, higher than any other business school in the SUNY system. The ranking was culled from a list of more than 600 schools accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, positioning the school in the top 15 percent of accredited undergraduate business programs.
The Gourman Report, published by Princeton Review, ranks the school's undergraduate business program 24th in the country and its accounting program 36th in the country. The Gourman Report also ranks the school's MBA and PhD programs 41st and 39th in the country, respectively.
ReportED (Education magazine from India), in a ranking of full-time MBA programs, ranks the UB School of Management #52 worldwide and #31 in the U.S.
and Alpha Rho Chi
.
, Inc., through the Gamma Kappa Chapter.
magazine. Both publications are distributed on campus. The Spectrum is the only independent publication. Generation is funded by advertising and through Sub-Board I, Inc., the student services corporation. UB also has a student radio station, WRUB. WRUB broadcasts all UB home football games and select road games, as well as most UB men's and women's home basketball games. After the retirement of John B. Simpson
, the undergraduate students have also developed a university forum with the hopes of developing a thriving online campus. This move was supported by now incumbent president Satish K Tripathi who called it a "model of University spirit and entrepreneurship"
UB annually hosts the world’s largest mud-volleyball game known as “Ooz-fest”. Teams of at least six students compete in a double elimination volleyball tournament at “The Mud Pit” each April. Fire trucks are brought in to saturate the dirt courts to create the mud. Awards are handed out to not only the victors, but the most creatively dressed. In the past, students have worn business suits and even dresses to the tournament.
UB clubs are run through the Undergraduate Student Association and the Graduate Student Association, with each level requiring respective senate recognition for clubs.
In 1999, the university built its first apartment complex for families and graduate students at Flickinger Court. Since the success of Flickinger, UB has developed South Lake Village, Hadley Village, Flint Village, and Creekside Apartments. Most students who wish to still live on or near the North Campus but enjoy the lifestyle of apartment living take advantage of these apartments. University Village at Sweethome and Villas at Chestnut Ridge are both student apartment communities adjacent to the North Campus and offer a shuttle service. Collegiate Village off campus apartments offers transportation to both North and South Campus. Students also find housing in private locations. Those locations are generally situated in the University Heights district of Buffalo, and other areas close to the North and South Campuses. The school assigns rooms based on a lottery system.
The school's sports teams are known as the Buffalo Bulls
. However, the women's teams were originally called the Buffalo Royals.
In 1958, the football team won the Lambert Cup, emblematic of supremacy in Eastern U.S. small-college football. That led to the team's first bowl invitation, to the Tangerine Bowl
in Orlando, Florida
, against Florida State University
. But the Bulls would be allowed to participate only if backup defensive end Mike Wilson
and starting halfback Willie Evans, who were black, did not play. The team stood behind the two, and refused the bowl offer; Buffalo did not receive another bowl invitation until the 2008 season.
Several UB football stars from the 1950s and early 1960s went on to play professional football, including quarterback John Stofa
with the American Football League
's Miami Dolphins
and Cincinnati Bengals
, and defensive lineman Gerry Philbin
with the AFL
's New York Jets
. Philbin is a member of the AFL Hall of Fame and the All-time All-AFL Team. Philbin and UB's Willie Ross were the first two UB graduates to play on professional football championship teams in the United States: Ross with the 1964 AFL Champion Buffalo Bills
; and Philbin with the 1968 AFL Champion New York Jets
, who also won that season's AFL-NFL World Championship Game
(Super Bowl III). James Starks
was on the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl XLV champions as a rookie. Ramon Guzman
played on the 2009 Grey Cup
champion Montreal Alouettes
.
Since 1996, the UB teams have participated in the NCAA
's Division I (I-A for football
), in the Mid-American Conference
. The mascots are 'Victor E. Bull', a blue bull with a gold nose ring, and his sister 'Victoria S. Bull'. After several years of poor performance in the two most popular college sports, men's basketball and football, the university's men's basketball team has recently begun to show some promise. In March 2005, the men's basketball team reached the Mid-American Conference Championship game, but suffered a harrowing 79-80 loss to the Ohio Bobcats, thus missing a chance for their first trip to the NCAA Tournament.
On March 25, 2009, the athletic department announced that the rowing program has joined the Colonial Athletic Association
as an associate member. The Women's Rowing team went on to win the CAA championship in April 2010 for the first time. In May 2010, the team won the Jack & Nancy Seitz Women's Point Trophy at the Dad Vail Regatta for the third year in a row, nicknamed the "threepeat" by Head Coach Rudy Wieler.
With the hiring of Turner Gill
as head football coach, UB was the only Division I-A school with an African American athletic director (Warde Manuel), men's basketball head coach (Reggie Witherspoon), and football head coach (Gill).
The university is home to the Thunder of the East marching band. The band performs at all home football games and travels to both local and national parades and competitions.
Jamey Richard
, 2008 graduate of the University of Buffalo, plays in the National Football League
and was selected by the Indianapolis Colts
in the 7th round, with the 236 pick of the 2008 NFL Draft
. Trevor Scott
, 2008 graduate of the University of Buffalo, plays in the NFL and was selected by the Oakland Raiders
. Quarterback Drew Willy
, 2009 graduate of the University of Buffalo, originally signed with the Baltimore Ravens
and later the practice squad of the Indianapolis Colts
. He was on the active roster for the Colts for one game and was with the team for Super Bowl XLIV. He is currently on the roster of the New York Jets. James Starks (6th round, 193rd overall) now plays with the Green Bay Packers
. And Naaman Roosevelt (Undrafted, started off as a player on the practice squad, but moved to the big club later on) who plays for the Buffalo Bills
Buffalo has three fight songs: "Victory March", "Go For a Touchdown", and "Buffalo Fight Song".
, American journalist, Wolf Blitzer
, CEO and founder of the History Channel, Abbe Raven, CEO of Paramount Pictures, Brad Grey
, CEO and founder of Baidu, Robin Li
, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Tom Toles
, Nobel Prize-winners, Ronald Coase
, Herbert A. Hauptman
and Sir John Carew Eccles. Billionaire and owner of the Boston Bruins, Jeremy Jacobs
, musician and civil rights activist, Charles Mingus
, and American actor, director, and producer, Ron Silver
. Amongst the athletes who have graduated from the University are football players Gerry Philbin
, Naaman Roosevelt
and James Starks
along with soccer players, Bobby Shuttleworth
and Martin John
.
Political leaders that have attended the University, include the 13th President of the United States, Millard Fillmore
, Prime Minister of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo
, and the Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China
, Zhou Ji
.
Public university
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research university and a "University Center" in the State University of New York
State University of New York
The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY , is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 465,000 students, plus...
(SUNY) system. The university was founded by Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president...
in 1846. UB has multiple campuses located in Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
and Amherst
Amherst, New York
Amherst is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 122,366. This represents an increase of 5.0% from the 2000 census. The town is named for Jeffrey Amherst, a British Army officer of the colonial period...
, New York
New York
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, United States
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. Offering 84 bachelor's, 184 master's and 78 doctoral degrees, it is the largest of the four comprehensive university centers within the SUNY system. The University at Buffalo is the largest public university in the northeastern United States (comprising New York state and the New England
New England
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region).
From its inception in 1846 until 1962, the institution was a private university: the University of Buffalo. When it became a state university, the new name became the "State University of New York at Buffalo". The administration uses the name "University at Buffalo", which parallels the three other comprehensive university centers of the SUNY system — Albany
University at Albany, SUNY
The State University of New York at Albany, also known as University at Albany, State University of New York, SUNY Albany or simply UAlbany, is a public university located in Albany, Guilderland, and East Greenbush, New York, United States; is the senior campus of the State University of New York ...
, Binghamton
Binghamton University
Binghamton University, also formally called State University of New York at Binghamton, , is a public research university in the State of New York. The University is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system...
and Stony Brook.
According to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
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, the University at Buffalo is a Research University with Very High Research Activity (RU/VH). In 1989, UB was elected to the Association of American Universities
Association of American Universities
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, which represents 61 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. UB's alumni and faculty have produced a U.S. President, a Prime Minister
Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo
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, astronauts, Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize
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winners, and other notable individuals in their fields. The University houses the largest state-operated medical school
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and features the only state law school
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, architecture
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and urban planning
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school, and pharmacy
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school in the state of New York. According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-2012, UB was ranked 201-225 worldwide among universities. In September 2011, UB was ranked as the 54th best public college and the 111th best college in the nation by U.S. News and World Report
Initial years
City leaders of Buffalo sought the establishment of a university in the city from the earliest days of Buffalo. A University of Western New York was begun at Buffalo under the auspices of the Presbyterian ChurchUnited Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
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and property was purchased at North Street and College, (the site of the later YMCA), on the north side of the Allentown district
Allentown, Buffalo, New York
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. This university was chartered by the state on April 8, 1836. However, the project collapsed and no classes were ever offered, and only the layout of College Street remains.
The University of Buffalo was founded on May 11, 1846 as a private medical school to train the doctors for the communities of Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
, Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls, New York
Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 50,193, down from the 55,593 recorded in the 2000 census. It is across the Niagara River from Niagara Falls, Ontario , both named after the famed Niagara Falls which they...
, and surrounding villages. James Platt White was instrumental in obtaining a charter for the University of Buffalo from the state legislature in 1846. He also taught the first class of 89 men in obstetrics. State Assemblyman Nathan K. Hall
Nathan K. Hall
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was also "particularly active in procuring the charter".
The doors first opened to students in 1847 and after associating with a hospital for teaching purposes, the first class of students graduated the medical school in July 1847. The first chancellor of the University was future President of the United States Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president...
. Upon his ascension to the presidency after President Taylor's death, Fillmore stayed on as part-time chancellor. Fillmore's name now graces the continuing education school Millard Fillmore College located on the South Campus as well as the Millard Fillmore Academic Center, an academic and administrative services building at the core of the residential Joseph Ellicott Complex, located on the North Campus.
"The first lectures were delivered in a wooden building over the old post office, corner of Seneca and Washington streets." The first building specially built for the university was a stone building at the corner of Main and Virginia streets, built in 1849-50, through donations, public subscription, and a state grant.
There were continuous expansions to the college medical programs, including a separate pharmacy division, which is now The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
In 1887 a law school was organized in Buffalo, which quickly became associated with Niagara University
Niagara University
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just to the north of Buffalo. After four years, in 1891, the law school was acquired by the University of Buffalo as the University of Buffalo Law School
University at Buffalo Law School
The University at Buffalo Law School, the State University of New York is a graduate professional school at the University at Buffalo. It is part of the State University of New York system and is the SUNY system's only law school. U.S...
, which had a downtown Buffalo facility.
In the first few years of the 20th century, the University began planning for a comprehensive undergraduate college to complete the basic structure of a university, and in 1909 the University acquired the Erie County Almshouse grounds from the county of Erie, which became the University of Buffalo's initial campus. With that additional space, in 1915, the then University of Buffalo formed the College of Arts and Sciences, creating an undergraduate division in addition to its prior educational work in the licensed professional fields. During the late 1960s, the College of Arts and Sciences was divided into three separate schools: arts and letters, natural sciences and mathematics, and social sciences. During the 1998-1999 academic year, the three schools were reunited to re-create the existing College of Arts and Sciences.
In 1950, the Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering
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department branched off from the Mechanical Engineering
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department. In 1956, a Civil Engineering
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Department was formed under Lehigh University
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graduate Robert L. Ketter
Robert L. Ketter
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, who went on to become Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and later President of the University.
In 1959, WBFO
WBFO
WBFO, broadcast on 88.7 FM, is the largest NPR member station for Buffalo, New York. It is broadcast from the South campus of the University at Buffalo....
was launched as an AM radio station by UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and run by UB's students. The station has since become the launching pad of two modern National Public Radio personalities: Terri Gross and Ira Flatow
Ira Flatow
Ira Flatow is a radio and television journalist and author who hosts National Public Radio's popular Science Friday. He is probably best known on TV for hosting Newton's Apple, a television science program for children and their families.-Biography:...
.
In 1961, the Western New York nuclear research program was created. This little known program installed a miniature, active nuclear fission reactor on the University's South (Main Street) Campus. This program was not particularly active, nor could it compete with other government-run research labs, consequently, the programs performed in this facility were abandoned somewhat shortly after its inception. This reactor was formally decommissioned in 2005 with little fanfare due to material security concerns.
In the early 1960s, the private University of Buffalo was purchased by and incorporated into the State University of New York
State University of New York
The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY , is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 465,000 students, plus...
or SUNY system, and became known as the State University of New York at Buffalo, or SUNY at Buffalo, and more recently as the University at Buffalo. As a part of the agreement to merge the university into the SUNY system, the State began to build an extensive second campus for the university. In 1964, The State acquired several hundred acres in the town of Amherst
Amherst, New York
Amherst is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 122,366. This represents an increase of 5.0% from the 2000 census. The town is named for Jeffrey Amherst, a British Army officer of the colonial period...
on the northeast of Buffalo, for development as a comprehensive campus for the most non-medical disciplines at University at Buffalo. This is often called the North Campus, and the center of most University at Buffalo activities. The North Campus project included several major buildings, dormitory complexes, a separate spur of the Interstate highway, and a new lake. The undergraduate college, the law school, and graduate schools were all moved to the new campus.
UB 2020
Started in 2004 under President John B. Simpson, UB 2020 is a massive strategic planning initiative to develop and implement a vision for the university over the next 15 years. The centerpiece of UB 2020 is to add about 10,000 more students, 750 faculty members and 600 staff, increasing the size of the University by about 40 percent. UB 2020 also recognizes the university's contribution to the surrounding region. The most recent estimates of UB's impact on the local and regional economies of Western New York report approximately $1.5 billion are brought into the local economy from the presence of UB, whose annual budget is currently $96 million. Both of these figures are also expected to rise by 40 percent, corresponding with UB’s institutional growth.One of the keys to helping UB achieve the goals of the UB 2020 plan, proponents say, is the passage of S2020 and A2020 known as the UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act, by the New York State Legislature. On June 3, 2009 the State Senate passed S2020 and sent the bill to the Assembly for their consideration.
The current president, Satish K. Tripathi
Satish K. Tripathi
Satish K. Tripathi is the president of the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York system. He was selected by the SUNY Board of Trustees with backing from SUNY Chancellor Nancy L...
, has continued his vocal support of UB 2020 and has been actively engaging in campus-wide discussion on the proposed tuition increases introduced by the bill.
University name
According to the university's own website, the university's official name is the "University at Buffalo, The State University of New York" the school's administration has adopted a style guide under the title of "The University at Buffalo Communications Toolbox", There are officially three names deemed appropriate with a fourth acceptable for reference to athletic programs:- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. This is the full official name, used by the university for formal communications to national audiences.
- University at Buffalo. This is the less formal unofficial name, used within the university, and in the local area where people are familiar with the predecessor name, University of Buffalo.
- UB. This shortened term "UB" is the marketing staff's preferred casual term to refer to school.
- Buffalo. This is the name used by the university's athletic department, particularly on uniforms.
Academics
UB's admission is selective. Emphasis has been placed on developing a community of research scientists centered around an economic initiative to promote Buffalo and create the Center of Excellence for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences as well as other advanced biomedical and engineering disciplines. The university's Center for Computational Research (CCR) is one of the most powerful academic supercomputing sites in the eastern United States, which once ranked 22nd out of the top 500 supercomputing sites in the world; as of November 2006, it was ranked 87th. However, as of November 2009, UB no longer ranked in the top 500 supercomputing sites in the world.Total R&D expenditures rose from $186.8 million to $259.0 million for FY 2001–04, ranking 58 under New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
(NYU). It rose to $297,909,000 for the year 2006.
Historically, UB was a technology pioneer, offering an early Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
major (distinct from a mathematics major). Additionally, UB played a significant role as a crucial internet hub for the eastern seaboard during the internet's inception. UB has invested in such commercially beneficial fields as medicine, biotechnology, and bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
.
Buffalo ranked 77-107 worldwide among universities in the social sciences in 2008 by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
University at Buffalo academic and professional faculty are represented by United University Professions. The two UUP chapters at the University at Buffalo are Health Sciences and Buffalo Center. United University Professions has over 34,000 members at 29 campuses of SUNY.
The University at Buffalo is also one of only two public schools in New York to have a medical school and a dental school, the other being the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Libraries
UB has nine libraries on its North (Amherst), South (Buffalo), and Downtown (Buffalo) campuses. The libraries' 3.6 million-plus print volumes are augmented by extensive digital resources, including full-text electronic journals, databases, media, and special collections, which include the world's single largest collection of James Joyce manuscripts and artifacts.Rankings
In the 2012 U.S. News and World Report rankings of national universities, the University at Buffalo ranked as the 111th best college in the United States and was also ranked as the 54th best public college in the United States. Buffalo ranked 201-225 worldwide among universities according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-2012. In 2009, The Wall Street Journal ranked the The School of Management #9 in the nation among schools with strong regional recruiting bases. In 2011, UB was ranked #52 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of top engineering schools. All thirteen schools in the University have been ranked in the top 20% in their respective fields since 2000.Admissions
Selection for admission is competitive. UB has attracted extremely bright students since its inception in 1846. In 2011, the University received 25,985 applications for less than 3,400 spaces in the freshman class. The middle 50% of accepted students had a GPA of 90%-96%. 51 percent of the incoming freshman scored higher than 1200 on the SAT (critical reading and math). 65 percent of accepted students ranked in the top 25 percent of their high school class. 34 percent of accepted students ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school class.Middle 50% High School Average/GPA
- 90%-96% / 3.1-3.7
Combined SAT Critical Reading and Math Score
- SAT Critical Reading: 500-610
- SAT Math: 550-650
- SAT Combined (CR and Math): 1120-1260
Middle 50% Combined ACT Score
- ACT Composite: 25-29
Campuses
The University at Buffalo is the state’s largest and most comprehensive public university and is spread across three campuses: North Campus, South Campus, and Downtown Campus. The Sustainable Endowments Institute's College Sustainability Report Card awarded the university a B-.North Campus
The main university campus began in the 1970s. Many academic programs, including the entirety of the undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences, the University at Buffalo Law SchoolUniversity at Buffalo Law School
The University at Buffalo Law School, the State University of New York is a graduate professional school at the University at Buffalo. It is part of the State University of New York system and is the SUNY system's only law school. U.S...
, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the School of Management, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Graduate School of Education, as well as Lockwood Memorial Library, Capen Library, and many administrative offices, are located on UB's North Campus in Amherst, NY.
The North Campus is home to administrative and academic offices. The main buildings are arranged along one academic "spine", a second floor connecting corridor, that connects most of the main academic buildings. The whole campus covers 1192 acres (5 km²) with 146 buildings containing 6715492 sq ft (623,890 m²), 10 residence halls and 5 apartment complexes. Its immense size also necessitated the creation of a shuttle system circling the academic sector and surrounding areas including the administrative complex, located nearly a quarter mile from the central academic area. When originally built by the state of New York, the North Campus was provided with two Interstate exits, from I-290
Interstate 290 (New York)
Interstate 290 runs for near Buffalo, New York from I-90 to I-190. It connects Buffalo with its northern suburbs of Amherst and Tonawanda, and provides a route to Niagara Falls that bypasses the city of Buffalo. I-290 also connects to Interstate 990, and through this connection,...
and I-990, its own internal parkway, the John James Audubon Parkway, and two small lakes created from Ellicott Creek
Ellicott Creek
Ellicott Creek is a stream in Western New York, United States. It is a tributary of Tonawanda Creek, which in turn into the Niagara River.-Course:...
.
The North Campus offers a variety of entertainment programming and activity for students. It contains the Student Union, which houses offices for the Student Association and student-interest clubs; Slee Hall, which presents contemporary and classical music concerts; Alumni Arena
Alumni Arena
Alumni Arena may refer to:* Alumni Arena , arena on the campus of Armstrong Atlantic State University* Alumni Arena , ice arena on the campus of SUNY Cortland...
, the home-court for University Athletics; the UB Center for the Arts
UB Center for the Arts
The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo is a cultural institution established in 1994 on the University at Buffalo North Campus in Amherst...
, a non-profit presenter of a wide variety of professional entertainment and UB Stadium, the 30,000 seat Football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
Stadium.
South Campus
The South Campus, also known as the Main Street campus, located on 154 acre (0.62321644 km²) in northeastern Buffalo, is the former grounds of the Erie County Almshouse and Insane Asylum, of which four buildings still remain (Hayes Hall, the former insane asylum; Wende Hall, a former maternity hospital; Hayes D; and Townsend Hall, a former nurses' quarters). The college was designed by architect E.B. Green in 1910, and was intended to resemble Trinity College, DublinTrinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...
. Its 53 buildings contain (3045198 sq ft (282,908 m²)) and include six resident halls. This campus is served by the northernmost subway station
University (Metro Rail)
University Station , is the last and most northerly station on the Buffalo Metro Rail line....
on Buffalo's Niagara Frontier Metro Rail
Buffalo Metro Rail
The NFTA has a fleet of 26 rigid-bodied LRVs for the Metro Rail system, numbered sequentially from 101 to 127. They were built by Tokyu Car Corporation of Japan. One car was damaged in transit and later purchased by a restaurateur, Bertrand H. Hoak, of Hamburg, as an addition to Hoak's Armor Inn...
system.
Today, the South Campus is generally a medical campus and it is the home of some of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the School of Public Health and Health Related Professions, the School of Nursing, the School of Dental Medicine, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. UB is currently in the planning and design phase of relocating the School of Pharmacy to Acheson Hall on the South Campus with 2010 as the target year. In addition, the University at Buffalo South Campus is the home of the WBFO
WBFO
WBFO, broadcast on 88.7 FM, is the largest NPR member station for Buffalo, New York. It is broadcast from the South campus of the University at Buffalo....
radio station, the University's biomedical science research complex, the Health Sciences Library and certain administrative offices. Additionally, 20 percent of UB's resident population continues to live in the original residential complexes located on the South (Main Street) Campus.
Adjacent to the UB South Campus is the UB Anderson Art Gallery, a converted elementary school with an all-glass atrium exhibit space.
Downtown Campus
In 2002, UB commissioned Boston firm Chan Krieger to create a third campus center. The Downtown Campus is the site of UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Science, which partners in research with UB's Ira G. Ross Eye Institute as well as the Roswell Park Cancer InstituteRoswell Park Cancer Institute
The Roswell Park Cancer Institute is a comprehensive cancer research and treatment center located in Buffalo, New York. Founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park, it was the first dedicated medical facility for cancer treatment and research in the United States. The facility is involved in drug...
and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute is an independent, not-for-profit, biomedical research facility located in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus....
to compose the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus. Also located in the downtown area is UB's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA), Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) and the Jacobs Executive Development Center (JEDC). The campus includes six major properties and a total of 43 buildings, counting shared lease space (588506 sq ft (54,674 m²)).
In September 2007, UB added the former M. Wile and Company Factory Building
M. Wile and Company Factory Building
M. Wile and Company Factory Building is a historic garment factory located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is an early and significant example of the "Daylight Factory." The four story building erected in 1924, is constructed of reinforced concrete and features curtain walls of metal sash...
on the southeast corner of Goodell and Ellicott streets and the former Trico Products Corp. building complex
Trico Plant No. 1
Trico Plant No. 1 is a historic windshield wiper factory located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is an early and significant example of the "Daylight Factory." The building is constructed of reinforced concrete and features curtain walls of metal sash windows and brick spandrels. It was...
on the northwest corner of Goodell and Ellicott streets to its properties downtown. The UB Regional Institute, Center on Rehabilitation Synergy, and a number of pre-K-16 initiatives related to UB's civic engagement mission, such as the UB-Buffalo Public Schools Partnership office, are set to relocate to the first site. The latter location has been purchased to house additional biomedical- and life science-related businesses connected to the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus.
Teaching hospitals
UB's teaching hospitals include Buffalo General Hospital, the Erie County Medical Center (ECMC), Millard Fillmore Hospital, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Veterans Affairs Western New York Health Care System. Additional facilities include free clinics such as the Kaleida Health's Niagara Family Health Center and the Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic, a program run by UB medical students.Comprehensive Physical Plan
The University at Buffalo has accumulated over 29,000 undergraduate and graduate studentsPostgraduate education
Postgraduate education involves learning and studying for degrees or other qualifications for which a first or Bachelor's degree generally is required, and is normally considered to be part of higher education...
, as well as 14,000 employees, across three campuses in the last 160 years. In order to accommodate both students and faculty, the university is currently implementing a $4.5 million Comprehensive Physical Plan to help in growth as well as to best utilize and enhance current facilities. Connecting all three campuses, as well as the facilities UB uses, is also a major element of the project. The firm granted the contract to lead the project is Beyer Blinder Belle
Beyer Blinder Belle
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP is an international architecture firm. It is based in New York City and has an additional office in Washington, DC. The firm's name is derived from the three founding partners: John H. Beyer, Richard Blinder, and John Belle. The three architects met...
.
The comprehensive physical planning process is broken into four phases. Currently, UB is implementing "phase one" by seeking input from the local and university communities to pinpoint issues, opportunities, and concerns related to this expansion. The project recognizes UB’s potential for excellence, in regard to the university's physical environment, by highlighting and evaluating various positive and negative attributes of the three campuses, including housing, circulation, functionality, landscape, and community interface.
The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is now 161 years old, and is the founding faculty of the University. In 2011, UB is ranked #55 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of best medical schools. Part of UB's Medical School, the Department of Neurosurgery is ranked #7 in North America in academic impact, based on an analysis of 25 neurosurgery and neurology journals published in Journal of Neurosurgery.The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is the second-oldest component of the University at Buffalo and the only pharmacy school in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It is consistently ranked among the top pharmacy schools in the United States. In 2008, UB was ranked #21 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of top pharmacy programs.The Law School
The Law SchoolUniversity at Buffalo Law School
The University at Buffalo Law School, the State University of New York is a graduate professional school at the University at Buffalo. It is part of the State University of New York system and is the SUNY system's only law school. U.S...
has new concentrations in Labor and Employment Law and in Technology and Intellectual Property. In 2011, the University at Buffalo Law School
University at Buffalo Law School
The University at Buffalo Law School, the State University of New York is a graduate professional school at the University at Buffalo. It is part of the State University of New York system and is the SUNY system's only law school. U.S...
is ranked #84 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of top law programs.
The School of Dental Medicine
The School of Dental MedicineState University of New York at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine
State University of New York at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine is a school of dentistry located in the United States city of Buffalo. The school is one of the dental schools in the state of New York.- History :...
was founded in 1892.
The Roswell Park Cancer Institute Graduate Division
The Roswell Park Cancer InstituteRoswell Park Cancer Institute
The Roswell Park Cancer Institute is a comprehensive cancer research and treatment center located in Buffalo, New York. Founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park, it was the first dedicated medical facility for cancer treatment and research in the United States. The facility is involved in drug...
Graduate Division was founded in 1898 by the preeminent surgeon Dr. Roswell Park, it is the oldest comprehensive cancer center in the world.
The School of Management
The Wall Street Journal ranked the The School of ManagementUniversity at Buffalo School of Management
The University at Buffalo School of Management is the business school of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in Buffalo, New York. The school was established in 1923 and is considered to be in the top 15% of best business schools in the nation.At the undergraduate level, the...
#9 in the nation among schools with strong regional recruiting bases. The WSJ has ranked the UB School of Management as one of the world's best business schools for seven consecutive years. In addition, UB MBAs have been lauded in The Wall Street Journal rankings for their team skills and leadership potential.
Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the UB School of Management's full-time MBA program as one of the best in the nation, and the school's Professional MBA program is among the best part-time MBA programs in the U.S. Bloomberg Businessweek also ranked the UB School of Management for having one of the country's "Top Undergraduate Business Programs." In the recruiter component of the ranking, the UB School of Management was ranked #11.
The Financial Times has ranked the UB School of Management's Executive MBA program, offered in Buffalo and Singapore, as one of the world's best. The EMBA program placed #23 in the U.S. and #51 worldwide. Among the ranking’s many components, the UB School of Management’s EMBA program was ranked #23 for graduates’ salary growth, #7 for percentage of female students, #26 for percentage of female faculty, #55 for faculty research and #16 for percentage of international faculty.
Forbes magazine ranks the UB School of Management as one of the world's "Best Business Schools" based on the return on investment it provides MBA graduates.
The University at Buffalo School of Management has been ranked a "Best Business School" by U.S. News and World Report in its annual ranking of MBA programs. The UB School of Management was ranked #75 out of 437 MBA programs surveyed. The MBA ranking is part of U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” In addition to the ranking of full-time MBA programs, U.S. News ranked the UB School of Management’s Professional MBA program #73 in a specialty ranking of part-time MBA programs. U.S. News and World Report has also ranked the UB School of Management as one of the country’s "Best Undergraduate Business Programs" in the 2012 edition of “America’s Best Colleges.” The school was ranked #81, higher than any other business school in the SUNY system. The ranking was culled from a list of more than 600 schools accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, positioning the school in the top 15 percent of accredited undergraduate business programs.
The Gourman Report, published by Princeton Review, ranks the school's undergraduate business program 24th in the country and its accounting program 36th in the country. The Gourman Report also ranks the school's MBA and PhD programs 41st and 39th in the country, respectively.
ReportED (Education magazine from India), in a ranking of full-time MBA programs, ranks the UB School of Management #52 worldwide and #31 in the U.S.
The College of Arts & Sciences
Originally organized in 1915, The College of Arts & Sciences is the main undergraduate body of the university.The Graduate School of Social Work
The Graduate School of Social Work was founded in 1924. In academic year 2008-2009, the Graduate School of Social Work awarded 257 master's degrees and 3 doctoral degrees. In 2011, UB is ranked #36 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of top social work programs.The Graduate School of Education
The Graduate School of Education dates to 1931, and is one of the largest graduate schools at UB, composed of four academic departments: counseling and educational psychology, educational leadership and policy, learning and instruction, and library and information science. In academic year 2008-2009, the Graduate School of Education awarded 472 master's degrees and 52 doctoral degrees. In 2011, UB is ranked #36 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of top library information science programs.The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
In 1946, The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was founded, and currently has 156 faculty and offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in six departments. In 2004-05, they conferred 498 BS (and 13 BA), 39 MEng, 330 MS, and 63 PhD degrees. In 2011, UB is ranked #52 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of top engineering schools.The School of Architecture and Planning
The State University of New York Board of Trustees authorized the establishment of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University in 1967. The School of Architecture and Planning is the only school within the State University of New York system that offers both pre-professional and accredited professional degrees in architecture and urban planning. In academic year 2008-2009, the School of Architecture and Planning awarded 96 baccalaureate degrees and 69 master's degrees. Student organizations within the UB School of Architecture and Planning include the UB chapters of the American Institute of Architecture StudentsAmerican Institute of Architecture Students
The American Institute of Architecture Students is an international organization for college-level students of architecture. It is the primary membership and advocacy organization for architecture students in the United States. It is modeled roughly on the professional association called the...
and Alpha Rho Chi
Alpha Rho Chi
Alpha Rho Chi is a professional co-educational college fraternity for students studying architecture and related professions. The fraternity's name is derived from the first three letters of the Greek word for architecture, αρχιτεκτονική.-Founding:...
.
The School of Nursing
The School of Nursing is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this year, having been founded in 1936. In 2011, UB is ranked #79 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of top nursing programs. The School also holds membership in the National Student Nurses Association. Maintains membership in the national honor society in nursing, Sigma Theta TauSigma Theta Tau
The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International exists to improve the health of people by increasing the scientific base of nursing research...
, Inc., through the Gamma Kappa Chapter.
The School of Public Health and Health Professions
The School of Public Health and Health Professions was created in 2003 by combining the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and the UB School of Health Related Professions. The school's goal is to create an environment in which researchers, educators, public health and other health professionals, and students can work together to explore problems and produce innovative solutions to address emerging health needs for populations and individuals. In 2011, UB is ranked #36 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of top public health programs.Student body
UB has a total student capacity estimated around 33,000 total students, a number which is quite common among other "super university" schools, though the school has never seen this many enrolled students. The University at Buffalo is the largest public university in the northeastern United States (comprising New England and New York State). Student enrollment trends reported by the University at Buffalo's Office of Academic Planning and Budget reflect UB's growing student population:| University at Buffalo student enrollment | |
|---|---|
| Fall 2010 | 29,048 |
| Fall 2009 | 28,881 |
| Fall 2008 | 28,192 |
| Fall 2007 | 28,054 |
| Fall 2006 | 27,823 |
| Fall 2005 | 27,220 |
| Fall 2004 | 27,276 |
| Fall 2003 | 27,255 |
Associations and activities
UB boasts two student-run periodicals: The Spectrum, and GenerationGeneration Magazine
Generation is a student publication that operates out of the State University of New York at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. Founded in 1984 by Eric Francis Coppolino, it is a fortnightly magazine with wide-ranging news, arts, literary and sports features concerning both campus and community events...
magazine. Both publications are distributed on campus. The Spectrum is the only independent publication. Generation is funded by advertising and through Sub-Board I, Inc., the student services corporation. UB also has a student radio station, WRUB. WRUB broadcasts all UB home football games and select road games, as well as most UB men's and women's home basketball games. After the retirement of John B. Simpson
John B. Simpson
John Barclay Simpson is a former president of the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York system. He assumed this position on January 1, 2004, after leaving his position as executive vice chancellor and provost of the University of California, Santa Cruz. On August 30,...
, the undergraduate students have also developed a university forum with the hopes of developing a thriving online campus. This move was supported by now incumbent president Satish K Tripathi who called it a "model of University spirit and entrepreneurship"
UB annually hosts the world’s largest mud-volleyball game known as “Ooz-fest”. Teams of at least six students compete in a double elimination volleyball tournament at “The Mud Pit” each April. Fire trucks are brought in to saturate the dirt courts to create the mud. Awards are handed out to not only the victors, but the most creatively dressed. In the past, students have worn business suits and even dresses to the tournament.
UB clubs are run through the Undergraduate Student Association and the Graduate Student Association, with each level requiring respective senate recognition for clubs.
Student housing
Student residence halls are located on both the North and South Campuses. On the North Campus, there is the Ellicott Complex, which consists of Fargo, Porter, Red Jacket, Richmond, Spaulding, and Wilkeson Quadrangles. Next to Fargo Quad is the newly built in 2011 Greiner Hall, a dorm strictly for sophomores. Also on North Campus is the Governors Complex, home to the Freshman Honors Housing and various other living communities. On South Campus is Goodyear and Clement Hall. The unique aspect of these dorms is that residents share a bathroom with the adjacent room, rather than have a communal bathroom. Up until Spring of 2011, there were three other dorm buildings, referred to as "The Quad": MacDonald, Pritchard, Schoellkopf, and Michael Hall. Michael Hall currently exists as the Student Health Center, whereas the other three are closed and abandoned.In 1999, the university built its first apartment complex for families and graduate students at Flickinger Court. Since the success of Flickinger, UB has developed South Lake Village, Hadley Village, Flint Village, and Creekside Apartments. Most students who wish to still live on or near the North Campus but enjoy the lifestyle of apartment living take advantage of these apartments. University Village at Sweethome and Villas at Chestnut Ridge are both student apartment communities adjacent to the North Campus and offer a shuttle service. Collegiate Village off campus apartments offers transportation to both North and South Campus. Students also find housing in private locations. Those locations are generally situated in the University Heights district of Buffalo, and other areas close to the North and South Campuses. The school assigns rooms based on a lottery system.
Athletics
Buffalo Bulls
The Buffalo Bulls are the athletic teams representing the University at Buffalo in intercollegiate athletics. The Bulls currently play in Division I , and are a member of the Mid-American Conference for all sports except women's rowing who is in the Cononial Athletic Assocition . They have been a...
. However, the women's teams were originally called the Buffalo Royals.
In 1958, the football team won the Lambert Cup, emblematic of supremacy in Eastern U.S. small-college football. That led to the team's first bowl invitation, to the Tangerine Bowl
Capital One Bowl
The Capital One Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played in Orlando, Florida at the Citrus Bowl, and previously known as the Tangerine Bowl and the Florida Citrus Bowl...
in Orlando, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
, against Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
. But the Bulls would be allowed to participate only if backup defensive end Mike Wilson
Mike Wilson
Mike Wilson may refer to:* Mike Wilson , Canadian poker player* Mike Wilson , American football offensive lineman...
and starting halfback Willie Evans, who were black, did not play. The team stood behind the two, and refused the bowl offer; Buffalo did not receive another bowl invitation until the 2008 season.
Several UB football stars from the 1950s and early 1960s went on to play professional football, including quarterback John Stofa
John Stofa
John Stofa son of the late John and Ann Stofa and a former American college and professional American football quarterback. He was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and graduated from Bishop McCort High School. He attended the University at Buffalo where he played as a member of the Buffalo Bulls...
with the American Football League
American Football League
The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...
's Miami Dolphins
Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
and Cincinnati Bengals
Cincinnati Bengals
The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the AFC's North Division in the National Football League . The Bengals began play in 1968 as an expansion team in the American Football League , and joined the NFL in 1970 in the AFL-NFL...
, and defensive lineman Gerry Philbin
Gerry Philbin
Gerald John Philbin is a former American collegiate football defensive tackle and four year starter from the University at Buffalo where he earned several honors including Second- team All-American, Little All-America, and All-American Academic team...
with the AFL
American Football League
The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...
's New York Jets
New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
. Philbin is a member of the AFL Hall of Fame and the All-time All-AFL Team. Philbin and UB's Willie Ross were the first two UB graduates to play on professional football championship teams in the United States: Ross with the 1964 AFL Champion Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
; and Philbin with the 1968 AFL Champion New York Jets
New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
, who also won that season's AFL-NFL World Championship Game
Professional American football championship games
Below is a list of professional football championship games in the United States, involving:* the informal Pittsburgh circuit of professional football teams ;...
(Super Bowl III). James Starks
James Starks
James Darell Starks is an American football running back for the Green Bay Packers. He was selected in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, .-High school:James attended high school in Niagara Falls, New York...
was on the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl XLV champions as a rookie. Ramon Guzman
Ramón Guzman
Ramon L. Guzman is a Canadian football linebacker for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Buffalo.-External links:**...
played on the 2009 Grey Cup
Grey Cup
The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is Canada's largest annual sports and television event, regularly drawing a Canadian viewing audience of about 3 to 4 million individuals...
champion Montreal Alouettes
Montreal Alouettes
The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.The current franchise named the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions...
.
Since 1996, the UB teams have participated in the NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
's Division I (I-A for football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
), in the Mid-American Conference
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members...
. The mascots are 'Victor E. Bull', a blue bull with a gold nose ring, and his sister 'Victoria S. Bull'. After several years of poor performance in the two most popular college sports, men's basketball and football, the university's men's basketball team has recently begun to show some promise. In March 2005, the men's basketball team reached the Mid-American Conference Championship game, but suffered a harrowing 79-80 loss to the Ohio Bobcats, thus missing a chance for their first trip to the NCAA Tournament.
On March 25, 2009, the athletic department announced that the rowing program has joined the Colonial Athletic Association
Colonial Athletic Association
The Colonial Athletic Association is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose full-time members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia. Most of its members are public universities, with five in Virginia alone, and the conference is headquartered in Richmond,...
as an associate member. The Women's Rowing team went on to win the CAA championship in April 2010 for the first time. In May 2010, the team won the Jack & Nancy Seitz Women's Point Trophy at the Dad Vail Regatta for the third year in a row, nicknamed the "threepeat" by Head Coach Rudy Wieler.
With the hiring of Turner Gill
Turner Gill
Turner Hillery Gill is an American football coach who most recently served as the head coach at Kansas from 2010-2011, and was one of 11 African-American head coaches in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision at the time of his hiring.-College:Gill graduated from Arlington Heights High...
as head football coach, UB was the only Division I-A school with an African American athletic director (Warde Manuel), men's basketball head coach (Reggie Witherspoon), and football head coach (Gill).
The university is home to the Thunder of the East marching band. The band performs at all home football games and travels to both local and national parades and competitions.
Jamey Richard
Jamey Richard
Jameson Tyler "Jamey" Richard is an American football center who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the seventh round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University at Buffalo...
, 2008 graduate of the University of Buffalo, plays in the National Football League
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
and was selected by the Indianapolis Colts
Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
in the 7th round, with the 236 pick of the 2008 NFL Draft
2008 NFL Draft
The 2008 NFL Draft took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on April 26 and April 27, 2008. For the 29th consecutive year, ESPN televised the draft; the NFL Network also broadcast the event, its third year doing so...
. Trevor Scott
Trevor Scott
Trevor John Scott is an American football defensive end for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was a 6th round pick in the 2008 NFL Draft...
, 2008 graduate of the University of Buffalo, plays in the NFL and was selected by the Oakland Raiders
Oakland Raiders
The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
. Quarterback Drew Willy
Drew Willy
Drew Willy is an American football quarterback for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. He was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2009...
, 2009 graduate of the University of Buffalo, originally signed with the Baltimore Ravens
Baltimore Ravens
The Baltimore Ravens are a professional football franchise based in Baltimore, Maryland.The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1995 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his...
and later the practice squad of the Indianapolis Colts
Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
. He was on the active roster for the Colts for one game and was with the team for Super Bowl XLIV. He is currently on the roster of the New York Jets. James Starks (6th round, 193rd overall) now plays with the Green Bay Packers
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
. And Naaman Roosevelt (Undrafted, started off as a player on the practice squad, but moved to the big club later on) who plays for the Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
Buffalo has three fight songs: "Victory March", "Go For a Touchdown", and "Buffalo Fight Song".
Notable faculty and alumni
Among the individuals who have attended, graduated, and taught at the University are astronaut, Ellen S. BakerEllen S. Baker
Ellen Louise Shulman Baker, M.D., M.P.H. is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. Baker serves as Chief of the Education/Medical Branch of the NASA Astronaut Office.-Family:...
, American journalist, Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist who has been a CNN reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and was the host of the Sunday talk show Late Edition until it was discontinued on January 11, 2009...
, CEO and founder of the History Channel, Abbe Raven, CEO of Paramount Pictures, Brad Grey
Brad Grey
Brad Alan Grey is the Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, a position he has held since 2005. Under Grey’s leadership, Paramount has finished No.2 in market share in 2008, 2009 and 2010 despite releasing significantly fewer films than its competitors.Since arriving at Paramount in 2005,...
, CEO and founder of Baidu, Robin Li
Robin Li
Robin Li is a Chinese entrepreneur, co-founder of China's most popular search engine Baidu.Li studied information management at Peking University and the State University of New York, Buffalo. In 2000 he founded Baidu with Eric Xu...
, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Tom Toles
Tom Toles
Thomas Gregory Toles is an American political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning...
, Nobel Prize-winners, Ronald Coase
Ronald Coase
Ronald Harry Coase is a British-born, American-based economist and the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. After studying with the University of London External Programme in 1927–29, Coase entered the London School of Economics, where he took...
, Herbert A. Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman
Herbert Aaron Hauptman was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials...
and Sir John Carew Eccles. Billionaire and owner of the Boston Bruins, Jeremy Jacobs
Jeremy Jacobs
Jeremy Maurice Jacobs, Sr. perhaps best known as the owner of the Boston Bruins, is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Delaware North Companies...
, musician and civil rights activist, Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
, and American actor, director, and producer, Ron Silver
Ron Silver
Ronald Arthur "Ron" Silver was an American actor, director, producer, radio host and political activist.-Early life:...
. Amongst the athletes who have graduated from the University are football players Gerry Philbin
Gerry Philbin
Gerald John Philbin is a former American collegiate football defensive tackle and four year starter from the University at Buffalo where he earned several honors including Second- team All-American, Little All-America, and All-American Academic team...
, Naaman Roosevelt
Naaman Roosevelt
Naaman Roosevelt is an American football wide receiver with the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League...
and James Starks
James Starks
James Darell Starks is an American football running back for the Green Bay Packers. He was selected in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, .-High school:James attended high school in Niagara Falls, New York...
along with soccer players, Bobby Shuttleworth
Bobby Shuttleworth
Bobby Shuttleworth is an American soccer player who currently plays for New England Revolution in Major League Soccer.-College and Amateur:...
and Martin John
Martin John
For the English Footballer see Martin John .Martin John is an Australian semi-professional goalkeeper, who currently plays for the Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League. He had also previously played with the Melbourne Knights during the club's time in the NSL.-References:...
.
Political leaders that have attended the University, include the 13th President of the United States, Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president...
, Prime Minister of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo
Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed "Farmajo" is a Somali diplomat and politician. He is the former Prime Minister of Somalia.-Personal life:...
, and the Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
, Zhou Ji
Zhou Ji
Zhou Ji is a Chinese politician. He served as the Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China between 2003 and 2009. He was educated in the United States and served briefly as the Mayor of Wuhan earlier in his career...
.
See also
- Alumni Arena (University at Buffalo)
- Buffalo State CollegeBuffalo State CollegeThe State University of New York College at Buffalo, referred to as Buffalo State College, often referred to colloquially as Buff State, is a public, liberal arts college in Buffalo, New York, United States and is part of the State University of New York. Buffalo State was founded in 1871 as the...
(a SUNY college in Buffalo) - University at Buffalo StadiumUniversity at Buffalo StadiumUniversity at Buffalo Stadium is a stadium in Amherst, New York. It is primarily used for football and track and field events, and is the home field of the Buffalo Bulls. It opened on September 4, 1993 with a game against the University of Maine...