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  • UB to offer online affordable housing degree certificate
    12/2/25

    Newly approved program in the School of Architecture and Planning will prepare students to ensure future housing is made affordable for all.

  • Building Equity Through Data: UB’s Food Lab Welcomes Dr. Jane Dai
    12/1/25
    In October 2025, Dr. Jane Dai became the newest member of the University at Buffalo’s Food Systems Planning and Health Communities Lab (Food Lab) in the School of Architecture and Planning. She joins the team to support a major initiative funded by a three-year, $795,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The project aims to examine community food systems dashboards and develop guidelines for how to leverage these dashboards as tools to advance data equity for food equity.
  • Alumnus Dale White Honored for Transformative Affordable Housing Project
    11/21/25
    Each year, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) awards the Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award to recognize developments that demonstrate remarkable creativity in their efforts to expand housing opportunities. This year, Market Street Village, an affordable housing project in San Diego, CA earned this prestigious honor, an achievement that holds special significance for University at Buffalo alumnus Dale White (BAED ’05). 
  • UB planner selected for AIA leadership program
    11/20/25

    Samira Sheikholeslami will take part in the ‘Next to Lead’ training program for racially and ethnically diverse women in architecture.

  • Preparing scholars for Fulbright Awards
    11/17/25

    Faculty Affairs is hosting a networking event to help inform and prepare faculty to successfully apply to this prestigious — and for many transformative — program.

  • Exploring Feminism in Architecture: María Novas Joins UB as Stratigakos Fellow
    11/14/25
    In 2023, SUNY Distinguished Professor Despina Stratigakos established a visiting fellowship within the UB School of Architecture and Planning. Its purpose is to support research on the built environment as a vehicle for the creation of more inclusive communities, with a focus on gender and sexuality in architecture. Stratigakos is a prodigious scholar whose research examines how power and ideology function in architecture. 
  • Shaping the Future of City Transit: Alumni Lead Micromobility Innovation
    11/14/25
    During his final year in the Master of Urban Planning program at the University at Buffalo, Michael Galligano (MUP ’09) and a group of his classmates developed an idea for a community-based car-share business. With support from a New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) grant, they launched Buffalo CarShare before they even graduated.
  • UB Welcomes International Students to Turn Demolition Waste into Design Innovation
    11/14/25

    Using our Fabrication Workshop as a hub, Christopher Romano, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, has partnered with Professor Diego Rodríguez and Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEC) to co-lead the second annual short-term study abroad program, this year partnering with 2025-26 Banham Fellow Celia Chaussabel.

  • Designing with Purpose: Graduate Studio Creates Storage Solutions for The Tool Library
    11/12/25

    This fall, graduate students in the UB Architecture Material Culture Research Studio took on a unique challenge: designing user-friendly storage systems for The Tool Library, a local nonprofit that supports the community through affordable access to an extensive collection of tools.

  • UB-RIT-Wendel team wins national home design competition
    11/5/25

    ‘California Rebuilds’ invited architects to showcase the power of passive house design in creating sustainable, fire-resilient communities.

  • Preserving, sharing legacy of Black architect Coles
    11/3/25

    UB adjunct architecture instructor Albert Chao is working to transform the Coles House and Studio into a space where community change happens.

  • UB Professor Honors Planning Pioneer and Mentor with “The Shoup Doctrine”
    10/30/25

    When Professor Daniel Hess graduated from the University at Buffalo in 1997 with his master’s in urban planning, his next stop was UCLA to pursue his Ph.D. There, he met Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning who came to be known for his pioneering work in parking policy and reform.