Public premiere for “Buffalo Corridors” will take place Oct. 12 at the North Park Theatre on Hertel Avenue in Buffalo. 

Partnership taps into successful trend of creating pre-approved housing on vacant lots.

Last month, Polish architect and urban planner Rita Łabuz made her first visit to America, traveling from Krakow University of Technology, where she is an assistant professor of spatial planning and urban design, to Buffalo, N.Y., where she was to present a public lecture at UB sharing her research on the relationship of planning practices and urban sprawl in the transitioning, post-socialist context of Poland.

The City of Niagara Falls, like the cataract that gives the city its name, is at a tipping point, burdened by the heavy tolls of its industrial past and buoyed by a new wave of plans that honor the city’s rich ecological heritage, complex socioeconomic realities, and transitioning urban form.

UB is No. 40 among the nation’s best public universities and 85th overall, which includes both public and private universities.

Thought leaders from around the country will share their ideas at the 2026 Rudy Bruner Debate on Urban Excellence on Oct. 23 at Seneca One Auditorium.

AI Readiness Index ranks UB No. 22 in the nation and gives UB an overall AI readiness score of 9 out of 10.

After graduating high school in 2021, Brody Kennedy wasn’t sure college was the right path for him and considered going right into the workforce in the construction trades. Today, he’s preparing to launch a career on the other side of that industry as a final-semester student in UB’s MS in Real Estate Development program.

According to recent UB graduate Raj Shah and current student Jason Yevin, the secret to success for a summer internship is all about taking initiative and keeping an open mind – from securing the placement, to making the most of the opportunity, to translating the experience into long-term career growth.

This past June, two students and two faculty members from the UB School of Architecture and Planning traveled to Detroit for the 2026 Design Futures Forum—an annual gathering that reimagines the role of the designer in addressing and dismantling human and ecological exploitation in the built environment.