The mission of the UB CLIR program is to link together community research needs in the public and private sectors with research expertise among our faculty to provide additional opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research that is of use to Western New York industry, government, community groups, schools, and social service agencies.

The mechanism for developing a productive CLIR research project is to develop a research course that is jointly supervised by a faculty member at UB and one or more representatives from the community. The participants in a CLIR project course will cooperate in defining novel research/scholarship/discovery that is both academically challenging and of interest to the community.

Industry, government, community groups, schools and social service agencies are invited to submit a request/inquiry on the phone or at our website. Faculty members interested in participating in the CLIR program are invited to inquire about obtaining CLIR support for their community-linked research projects. Staff working on the CLIR program will seek to match faculty and community research interests.

Participating community organizations will provide partial funding for their CLIR research projects. Some funding from the Hewlett Foundation will be used to enable not-for-profit groups to participate in the CLIR program at no charge.

The CLIR 2003 Annual Report to the Hewlett Foundation is available here for download as a PDF file.