Every day for over 21 years, Marion Brush took her seat at the central reception desk for the School of Architecture and Planning happy to be there. Indeed, it is this simple but profound attitude that set the tone for the School as Brush greeted faculty, staff and students with an easy smile, an eagerness to assist and, if you were lucky, a colorful story from a life lived well.

To more powerfully address and reverse Buffalo’s entrenched health disparities, the Center for Urban Studies, dedicated to regenerating underdeveloped neighborhoods, is joining the Community Health Equity Research Institute at UB.

UB architecture professor Christopher Romano plays a pivotal role in the dramatic transformation of a 126-year-old building on Buffalo’s East Side into a flexible indoor-outdoor performance and event space. It’s  the latest progression in the contemporary performance theater’s plan to create a cultural campus and site of engagement on the city’s East Side.

Bee Breeders’ international architecture competition “Berlin Techno Booth” has announced Jackson Gaylord, a Master of Architecture student at UB, as the “Green Prize” winner.

“Chilling.” That’s the word a prominent Buffalo pastor used to describe the findings of a new report by researchers from UB’s Center for Urban Studies on the state of the Black community in Buffalo.