At UB, students work side-by-side with exceptional faculty members whose passionate commitment to teaching and scholarship has far-reaching impact.
UB has more than 2,400 highly trained faculty, who rank among the very best in their fields. Recognized nationally and internationally as outstanding teachers, world-class scholars, and dedicated mentors, our faculty has engaged in research and innovation that has furthered existing knowledge and helped to improve the quality of life all over the world. UB faculty members have helped develop new ways of regenerating bones, explored the frontiers of digital poetics, synthesized new chemical compounds, and improved the efficiency of solar power, to mention just a few of their groundbreaking advances.
UB annually spends more than $323 million on research and development, while our faculty members have won such prestigious awards as the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Science, the MacArthur Foundation “genius award,” and the Guggenheim Fellowship. And our faculty puts as much emphasis on classroom instruction as research: More than 100 UB faculty members have been awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Research and teaching are not competing priorities at UB. What sets us apart is that our faculty excels at both. As accomplished scholars, they are able to incorporate their innovative research into their teaching; as accomplished teachers, they are able to use classroom experiences to help inform their research.
That connection and integration of research and teaching means that undergraduate students gain access to world-class researchers and distinguished teachers, not only in class, but in lab settings and field work, as well. Those interactions happen every day campus-wide, but are particularly pronounced in learning communities such as Undergraduate Academies, Discovery Seminars, and the University Honors College, where students are exposed to leading-edge ideas in an intimate environment comparable to a graduate- or doctoral-level seminar.
UB’s Teaching and Learning Center provides faculty with workshops, speakers, programs, discussion groups, and consultations that helps them to stay on top of current trends and enhance their teaching skills.
Carl Dennis: English,
Pulitzer Prize
Paras N. Prasad: Chemistry,
Guggenheim Fellowship
Eli Ruckenstein: Chemical and Biological Engineering,
National Medal of Science
Herbert Hauptman: Biophysical Sciences,
Nobel Prize
Last updated: September 09, 2009 1:59 pm EST
