The UB Regional Institute

A unit of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning

The UB Regional Institute and the Urban Design Project, under the UB School of Architecture and Planning, are collaborative partners producing public scholarship and decision support to our clients and community.

Our professional staff, proficient in public policy, regional planning, data analysis and information technology applications, is supplemented by faculty and policy fellows and graduate students.


Professional Staff

Robert G. Shibley

Robert G. Shibley

Interim Director and Dean of School of Architecture & Planning

Bradshaw Hovey

Bradshaw Hovey

Co-director, the Urban Design Project

Sharon Ana Entress

Senior Policy Associate

Kathryn Bryk Friedman

Director of Cross-Border and International Research, Research Associate Professor of Law and Policy

Laura Quebral Fulton

Senior Policy Associate

Subbiah Mantharam

Director of Operations

Paul Ray

Associate Planner at the Urban Design Project

Bart Roberts

Policy Associate

Lynda Schneekloth

Director of Landscape Architecture at the Urban Design Project

Brenda A. Stynes

Graphic and Information Designer

Rachel M. Teaman

Director of Programs and Communications

Senior Fellows

Kathryn A. Foster

Senior Fellow

John B. Sheffer II

Senior Fellow


Fellows

Robert M. Adelman

2007-08, Department of Sociology

Daniel B. Hess

2007-08, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Jaekyung Lee

2007-08, Graduate School of Education

Peter A. Lombardi

Research Fellow

Kathleen McCormick

2007, Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Debra A. Street

2007-08, Department of Sociology