University at Buffalo
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| motto | Mens sana in corpore sano |
| founding | 1846 |
| Sponsorship | public |
| place | Amherst and Buffalo , United States |
| president | Satish K. Tripathi |
| Students | 31,923 (2020) |
| Annual budget | US $ 785 million (2020) |
| Networks | Association of American Universities |
| Website | www.buffalo.edu |
The University at Buffalo (also called State University of New York at Buffalo or UB ) is a state university in Amherst and Buffalo in the US state of New York . With 27,220 students, it is one of four core universities of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and a member of the Association of American Universities , a network of leading American research universities.
The college was founded in 1846 as a medical college and was called the University of Buffalo until 1962 . In the early 1960s, the University at Buffalo was added to the SUNY network.
The university has three campuses : North Campus in Amherst, South Campus on the outskirts, and Downtown Campus in downtown Buffalo. Most significant is the North Campus in Amherst, which opened in the 1970s.
Sports
The university's sports team are the Buffalo Bulls . The university is a member of the Mid-American Conference .
Personalities
Professors
- Fritz Machlup (1935–1947) - economist
- Ronald Coase (1951–1958) - 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Walter SG Kohn (early 1950s), political scientist
- JM Coetzee (1968–1971) - Nobel Prize Winner Literature 2003
- John Carew Eccles (1968–1975) Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963
- John Barth (1965–1973) - short story writer
- Georg Iggers (1965–1997) - historian
- Herbert A. Hauptman - Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1985
Graduates
- Wolf Blitzer - journalist
- Louis Campbell - basketball player
- Chaisang Chaturon - Vice Prime Minister Thailand
- Bram Cohen - Programmer (Without Degree)
- Richard Hofstadter - journalist
- Ezekiel Jackson (born 1978), wrestler
- Gregory Jarvis - astronaut on the Challenger mission STS-51-L
- Zhou Ji - Chinese Minister of Education
- Robin Yanhong Li - founder of the Chinese search engine Baidu
- Gerry Philbin - American football player
- Cindy Sherman - artist and photographer
- Ron Silver - actor
- Alan Soble - philosopher
- Ruth Tabrah , writer
- Tom Toles - journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Fred Wah (* 1939), Canadian poet, writer and former university professor
- Harvey Weinstein - founder of Miramax
- Leslie White - anthropologist
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 43 ° 0 '5 " N , 78 ° 47' 21.9" W.