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The Western New York Sophomore Externship Experience at UB matches students with some of the area’s top businesses and not-for-profits, where they work 20 hours a week.

The move strengthens the two organizations’ mission to advance medical science research and education in WNY and beyond.

The $1.9 million grant will bring a nine-week, paid, direct-entry, pre-apprenticeship program for construction trades to Buffalo.

Projects focus on cancer therapies, robotic clot removal catheters, and mRNA vaccines, among other technologies

Stromhaug, from Binghamton University, will drive economic growth via industry engagement, tech commercialization and entrepreneurial initiatives.

The Canadian biotech company also plans a manufacturing facility in Niagara Falls.

A $750,000 grant will further UB’s support of early-stage startups in WNY.

The new UB Center of Excellence in Investigator Development and Community Engagement will facilitate research by early career-faculty to address root causes of health inequities in Buffalo communities.

The announcement will occur at 10 a.m. on Tuesday at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

UB archaeologist Douglas Perrelli and his students are conducting a dig on the site of Buffalo’s historic Michigan Street Baptist Church.