How to power your education
with our expertise.
UB's unique way of doing things sets us apart—and above. Our flagship status means we relentlessly reinvent excellence. We raise the bar, and then reach higher. Our commitment to big thinking is the key to attracting expert faculty who create the academic environment you'll thrive in. Because if you want to be the best, you have to learn from the best.
No. 1 public university in New York
(U.S. News & World Report)
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President Tripathi: “Today's event is truly historic. How honored and delighted we are to welcome Justice Ginsburg to campus.”
Justice Ginsburg: “I am now 86 years old, yet people of all ages want to take their picture with me! Amazing!”
JoAnn Falletta: “We commission, not very often as you can imagine, because it is a big thing for us. We find those special people like David Felder and asked them to write a piece. We want to be able to tackle this music and make it glow, make it shine, in the way that David has envisioned it.”“
Professor Khan: “Innovation is only possible when you have people who are willing to experiment and try something different.”
Professor Dietz: “I'm very, very dedicated to understanding what goes wrong in the brain, in diseases like addiction.”
Professor Agbemenu: “I hope that my research impacts mostly our perception of refugees.”
Professor Fabiano: “One of the great things about the Graduate School of Education is that the faculty are studying questions of real relevance to folks that are out in the field.”
Professor Kruger: “We have to keep up with the times. We have to understand how technology is impacting human behavior and how that human behavior is impacting community health.”
Rev. Nicolas: “To have the health disparities conference at the medical school was significant. It can't just be the Black community doing this; the entire community needs to be involved in helping us solve this problem.”
Professor Schwaitzberg: “They do real suturing, exactly what we do on patients.”
Ms. Clarke: “Now, I'm starting to think that I might want to become a surgeon.”
Ms. Hamernik: “UB has been a community for me to understand my goals and my passions and to actually work toward them.
Mr. Marcum: “We were tasked with finding information about civil rights leaders that came to speak at UB in the 60s and 70s and uncovering clues about what it was like to be there that day.”
Professor Shimon: “It’s not a theoretical class project; this is a real tactile exhibit that's going on a ship to Prague.”
Ms. Sullivan: “To do something on an international stage is incredible.”
Mr. Pujari: “Buffalo has become a home away from home for me because of the multicultural multi-diverse people I have met.”
Ms. Tjahjadi-Lopez: “My time at UB really prepared me to go out on my own and to be very confident in myself.
President Tripathi: “Our athletics program has been on an impressive upward trajectory. This premiere indoor practice facility will help us build on that excitement.
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Top 40 public institution
(U.S. News & World Report, WSJ/THE)
1 of 65 institutions
in the Association of American Universities (AAU), a prestigious group that leads the way in education, research and discovery
Leading the Charge
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Tenacity. Ambition. Purpose. Here, it’s not just what we do. It's how we do it.
THOUSANDS OF FACULTY WHO:
• Teach and mentor students who will make the world a better place.
• Guide students through research, experiential learning and creative projects.
• Conduct research that informs education, sparks inventions and changes lives.
• Advance society and grow the economy through innovative discoveries.
• Earn distinguished honors (like the Nobel Prize, MacArthur "Genius Grant" and Guggenheim Fellowship).
• Tackle complex challenges across interdisciplinary boundaries.
• Publish in leading academic journals and textbooks.
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Jack Tseng: “Here at UB, we are asking big questions.”
Paul Vanouse: “We’re looking at the forces that surround us. We are questioning them and responding.”
Mark Shepard: “How do we engage in the process of shaping the world to create the spaces and environments we want to inhabit?”
Irus Braverman: “What we think of as just natural and just existing, actually have ideologies behind them.”
Tseng: “What is the limit to life as we know it?”
Jean Kopperud: “We are personalizing music education. The feeling behind the music, the communication with the audience.”
Vanouse: “Fundamentally, we’re beginning with a premise that is outside the definitions of art.”
David Milling: “Our next generation of physicians will improve care in a way that we have not seen.”
Bina Rammaurthy: “This technology can transform lives across the boundaries of trust.”
Kristin Poinar: “We’re working to understand the future of ice on Earth. The research has implications for everyone on the planet.”
Shepard: “It only takes a few inspiring minds to make magic happen.”
Poinar: “There’s no limit to what you can discover.”
Memorable learning through innovative teaching.
Jessica Kruger is a passionate instructor known for innovative teaching methods. Kruger's students produce podcasts instead of papers, and one of her classes even wrote its own textbook— two outside-of-the-box pedagogical approaches that make classes feel more like experiences than lectures.
Kruger's commitment to students also extends to mentorship, something she identifies as critical to students' long-term success: "Good mentors open doors you never knew existed," she says. "Each of them will help you become the person and professional you want to be."
Recent Honors:
• 2019 Excellence in Instruction Award, SUNY Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching and Technology
• 2019 Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, School of Public Health and Health Professions
• The Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching, UB Student Association
• U.S. Public Health Service and Interprofessional Education Collaborative honorable mention
• Excellence in Teaching Award, National Society of Leadership and Success