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Home > Departments > Facilities Planning & Design > Campus Info > Building Profiles > South Campus Building Profiles > Farber Hall

Farber Hall

Farber Hall

Facility:
Number:
Function:
Gross Square Feet:
Construction Cost:
Completed:
Architect:

FARBER
0001
Academic
210,903
$3,706,000
June, 1953
James, Meadows, & Howard

OCCUPANTS 

Farber Hall Occupany Report  Adobe Reader Document (PDF)

FUNCTION 

The Cary-Farber-Sherman complex, built in the early 1950's, was originally named for Samuel P. Capen (his name went to a building on the North Campus in the 1970's), and allowed the medical and dental schools to move from their downtown locations. 

The building is occupied by departments in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, founded in 1846, it is the university's oldest division and one of the major biomedical research complexes in the SUNY system. The newly created (2003) School of Public Health and Health Professions is also the other major occupant of the building.

NAMESAKE 

Sidney FarberSidney Farber (1903-1973) born in Buffalo, was a UB graduate in 1923 who later served as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, regarded as one of the founders of the speciality of pediatric pathology. The Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program was conceived in 1955 when Dr. Sidney Farber, Mary Lasker, and others approached Congress with a proposal that it increase support for studies of chemotherapy for cancer. In the area of clinical care, one of Farber's innovations was something that sounds as if it could have come out of today's headlines. "He came up with the idea of what is now called 'total care'. He decided that all services for the patient and family - clinical care, nutrition, social work, counseling - should be provided in one place. All decisions should be made as a team. Everyone involved in caregiving should plan the treatment together." says former Institute President David G. Nathan, M.D.