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Featured Opportunities

Every gift to UB is a vote of confidence in the future of the university. You can designate your gift to be used for a purpose that is important to you. The following list is just a small snapshot of the many funds you can contribute to at UB.

Football Heroes

The 1958 UB football team unanimously rejected a bid to play in the Tangerine Bowl, which would have required the team to play without its two African-American players.

Aging Research Funds

UB's Aging and Technology Research Center is working on a better future for frail older people.

Alison Des Forges

The Alison L. Des Forges Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund will support Buffalo Public Schools graduates who are committed to studying human rights and social justice.

BOCA: The Buffalo Outreach and Community Assistance Fund

Donations to the BOCA Fund pay for procedures and restorative dental work in less privileged countries.

CAS Student Assistance Fund

Our brightest students reach for opportunities that may lie just beyond their grasp. The College of Arts and Sciences Student Assistance Fund closes the gap.

CAS Student Assistance Fund

There is a great deal of evidence now that diet affects cancer risk. That connection wasn’t obvious, though, in the 1950s, when L. Saxon Graham began breaking new ground in cancer epidemiology.

Educational Opportunity Program Fund

EOP supports motivated and talented students who—because of inadequate financial resources and academic preparation—have not had the same opportunities as other students.

Florence Nightingale Fund

Help the School of Nursing educate and train the next generation of nurse clinicians, teachers and scholars.

Gifted Math Program

The University at Buffalo Gifted Math Program offers advanced mathematics courses to exceptional secondary school students.

Grammostola Spatulata Fund

Frederick Sachs hopes a peptide in tarantula venom will lead to development of a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Honors College Innovation Fund

The Honors College at the University at Buffalo offers a small, elite learning environment within a large research university—the best of both worlds.

Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage

The Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage establishes UB as a leader in Jewish studies and offers insights into the most pressing contemporary issues.

Jean M. Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse and School Violence

The Jean M. Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse and School Violence is a clearinghouse for information on anti-bullying research and programs.

Mobile Dental Unit

UB uses a rolling dental office to provide dental care for more than 3,000 children in Chautauqua County every year. You can pitch in.

Social Work Resource Fund

UB sent its first master of social work student to Amrita University in South India for a semester-long field education experience.

Student Newspaper and Yearbook Digitization

Digitization of UB student publications is a key part of the University Libraries’ commitment to provide online access to our noteworthy collections.

Humanities Institute

The Humanities Institute doesn't measure the universe; we study how humankind has thought about our place in it over the millennia.

STOR

The Office of Science, Technology Transfer, and Economic Outreach (STOR) helps transform the inventions of UB faculty and students into products and services that benefit society.

Terese Kelly Investment Group

In the Terese Kelly Investment Group, the money is real and the investors are serious.

UB Parent Fund

The Parent Fund is used to improve student life at UB in general, as well as in particular, when individual students face unexpected financial needs.