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Media Mentions

Our faculty are frequently called upon to inform critical issues facing the world today. See the latest faculty and school mentions in the press.

  • Stand-out students recognized by AIA Buffalo/WNY
    8/4/17
    Three top-performing students in UB's architecture program have been recognized with scholarships from the Buffalo/WNY chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
  • Newest faculty hire an expert in international urban planning and governance
    8/3/17
    In Ghana, a newborn child receives the names of both parents, which are often aspirations for the child’s future. Dr. Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, the most recent faculty hire for the UB School of Architecture and Planning, is on a path to live up to his father’s name, Boamah, Helper of Nations.
  • Bridges and roads as important to your health as what’s in your medicine cabinet
    8/1/17

    Architecture professor Korydon Smith says health care reform and America's aging infrastructure should be part of the same debate.

  • Study: County can leverage food system
    7/29/17
    An article in the Dunkirk Observer about Chautauqua County’s food system looks at a preliminary report prepared by a UB Food Lab team that found that tapping into larger nearby markets could contribute to the county’s economic regeneration, and quotes Erin Sweeney, a student who worked on the report. “The agricultural heritage and tight-knit community in Chautauqua County creates a nice place for residents and visitors,” she said. “Many innovative projects and organizations in the county are already working to make connections, and we see opportunity to make further connections through ideas we discovered.” 
  • Erie County is betting big on Bethlehem Steel
    7/24/17
    An article about a purchase agreement that will allow Erie County to take control of nearly 150 acres of remediated Bethlehem Steel property before the end of the year looks at plans to redevelop the property and quotes Martha Bohm, assistant professor of architecture in UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, who is working with the ECIDA to consider ways to make Bethlehem Steel projects models of sustainable technology and affordable energy. “We can change the conversation about how the site is thought of,” she said. 
  • UB's award-winning solar home returns to Buffalo
    7/20/17

    An award-winning university project is returning home to South Campus. UB’s GRoW Home, a student-built solar home that traveled across the country to place atop the 2015 Solar Decathlon, is now being reassembled behind Hayes Hall.

  • Viewpoints: Imagining a lifelong learning land
    7/14/17
    An opinion piece about infusing Buffalo with a lifelong learning culture notes that in 1983, a conference called “Imagining Buffalo: Reflections on Our City” was organized in part by Robert Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, and Lynda Schneekloth, professor emeritus of architecture. 
  • Model Citizen: How a Buffalo transplant became a Buffalo ambassador
    7/10/17
    Until three years ago Juweria Dahir (BA ’15) knew no one in Buffalo other than her husband and his family. Now she is more deeply immersed in the workings of this city, and in the lives and fortunes of its people, than most native-born residents. 
  • Food for Thought
    7/10/17

    For Samina Raja and members of the Food Lab at UB, food systems planning is a pursuit of equity and social justice for the people who have long been disenfranchised by traditional planning—the poor, people of color, immigrants and refugees.

  • Faculty members receive research awards to advance work in architectural history
    7/10/17

    Architecture professors Despina Stratigakos and Charles Davis have both received research awards from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to advance critical work in architectural history.

  • East Side history project receives state funding
    7/5/17
    An article reports the East Side History Project, a project spearheaded by UB’s Center for Urban Studies, has received a grant of $24,993 from the state’s Documentary Heritage Program. The article notes that the project is an ongoing initiative that seeks to interview residents about their everyday life experiences and collect documents like photographs, videos, letters and historical ephemera about the city. An Associated Press article on the project also appeared in news outlets that include WHEC-TV in Rochester, WNYT-TV in Albany, U.S. News & World Report, WIVB-TV and WBEN-AM.
  • Building a Local and Integrated Renewable Energy Future: Brownfields to BrightGreenFields
    7/5/17
    An article on The Nature of Cities coauthored by Zoe Hamstead, assistant professor of urban and regional planning in the School of Architecture and Planning, and Ryan McPherson, chief sustainability officer, looks at post-industrial cities that are implementing brownfields to brightfields programs that help develop local economies, generate clean energy and manage pollution. The article notes that UB students have initiated a project, Localizing Buffalo’s Renewable Energy Future, that aims to advance clean energy in New York State by increasing the use of solar energy in the City of Buffalo and on university campuses.