Anatomy of Change
A New Medical School
a nEW ERA Construction is set to begin on a new, larger school downtown
When the UB medical school was founded in 1846, the year 2020 must have seemed like science fiction to those living at the time. The same could perhaps have been said in 2005, when UB’s leaders began to articulate a long-term strategic plan they called UB 2020—the centerpiece of which was a bold idea to build a new, larger medical school downtown in close proximity to its life sciences partners on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC). B y S . A . U nger
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