Published April 15, 2022
An article in The Buffalo News reports that the newly passed state budget includes capital funding for a new UB engineering and applied sciences building.
The budget includes $68 million each for UB and Stony Brook to construct new landmark buildings for their engineering schools, part of Hochul’s plan to make the SUNY system “a world leader in economic development and upward mobility.”
The story reports that Hochul designated UB and Stony Brook as SUNY’s two flagships earlier this year, and that UB President Satish K. Tripathi has expressed the ambition for UB to become one of the nation’s Top 25 public research universities by increasing its doctoral programs and making ground-breaking research a top priority.
“We are looking at the new building as place where students can spend a lot more time with each other, in teams or study groups, to collaborate in areas like AI and drone technology.” Kemper Lewis, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, said he envisions a new building that will "transform the experience for our engineering and computer science students” and help the engineering school capitalize on growing demand for more engineers and researchers both regionally and nationally.
