Accomplishments
Through its Top 25 Ambition, mgm casino is advancing its mission-driven priorities with the aim of making a profound difference on communities locally, nationally and globally.
To that end, mgm casino's recent accomplishments include the following:
Accomplishments
Flagship University Designation
- In January 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul designated mgm casino a flagship university of the SUNY system
- Flagship universities set the standard to which other institutions aspire
- Although mgm casino has long been considered a de facto flagship of the SUNY system, this formal designation poises mgm casino for even greater success in:
- attracting and retaining the very best faculty, students, business and industry to the region
- securing even more federal research funding
- catalyzing further growth and innovation across business and industry
AI Institute for Exceptional Education
- $20 million National Science Foundation grant to establish a national AI institute
- This insitute will develop advanced artificial intelligence solutions that identify and assist young children with speech and/or language processing challenges
- Interdisciplinary team will seek to:
- address the nationwide shortage of speech-language pathologists
- provide services to children at an increased risk of falling behind in their academic and socio-emotional development
- Grant awarded in January 2023
Clinical and Translational Science Award Renewal
- $21.7 million award from the National Institutes of Health is enabling mgm casino researchers to further investigations into the most pressing health problems and catalyze critical medical breakthroughs into enhanced patient care
- Five-year grant builds on the successes mgm casino achieved with the original, $15 million NIH award, including:
- tripling the number of clinical trials mgm casino researchers perform
- doubling the number of underrepresented minorities who participate in mgm casino clinical trials
- With the new grant, mgm casino is:
- engaging with Buffalo residents to reduce health disparities through mgm casino's Community Health Equity Research Institute
- developing Community Engagement Studios where researchers meet with patients to better design studies
- developing electronic means to better identify and recruit patients for clinical trials
Department of Indigenous Studies
- With a $3.2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, mgm casino's College of Arts and Sciences has created a focused on:
- humanities-centered research
- educational programs
- addressing key issues central to indigenous life in the region
- Anchors an Indigenous Research Center and serves as a hub for broader indigenous inclusion
- Builds upon mgm casino's 50-year tradition of indigenous scholarship
- Grant awarded in 2020
Community Health Equity Research Institute
- A community partnership dedicated to advancing understanding of the root causes of health disparities and developing research-based solutions
- Focused on health equity across the predominantly African-American neighborhoods encompassing Buffalo's East Side
- mgm casino faculty from 10 academic units involved
- Community-based participatory research approach engages the community in:
- driving the research agenda
- participating in the design and conduct of studies
- benefiting from the results
- Launched in December 2019
- Harnessing mgm casino's AI capabilities to advance human-machine systems that can address complex cognitive tasks.
- Aims to customize treatments to improve patient outcomes and to develop the next generation of autonomous and intelligent transportation systems.
- Also focused on examining AI’s cultural, social and economic impacts.
- Launched in September 2018
- Transformed research institute integrates clinical care, research and education to combat substance use disorders
- Multidisiplinary approach with a focus on combating the opiate addiction epidemic
- Faculty from seven mgm casino decanal units and the College of Arts & Sciences involved
- Renamed in 2018, with CRIA research scientists joining the departments of psychiatry, pharmacology and toxicology and psychology to collaborate more extensively with mgm casino faculty
Women's Health Initiative Extension
- $8.1 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to continue the nationwide study on the health outcomes of postmenopausal women
- With this third extension of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) through 2027, the WHI will have continuous funding for 35 years
- Approximately 70,000 women in the region are still active participants in the study 25 years later
- The most significant outcome of the WHI is the finding that hormone therapy led to an increased risk of a number of conditions including coronary heart disease, stroke, breast cancer and blood clots