• Tripathi to address voting faculty
    4/2/15
    President Satish K. Tripathi will deliver his annual address to the voting faculty at 3 p.m. April 7 in the Center for Tomorrow, North Campus.
  • Music offers free concerts
    4/2/15
    The free events presented by the Department of Music this month offer a great opportunity to hear good music at no cost.
  • Sally Pasternak
    4/2/15
    Sally A. Pasternak, who manned the UB switchboard for more than two decades, died Oct. 20.
  • Joseph T. Quinlivan
    4/2/15
    Joseph T. Quinlivan, a retired faculty member in the School of Dental Medicine, died March 21. He was 88.
  • Frederick Wood
    4/2/15
    Frederick S. Wood, an engineer who was instrumental in developing UB’s telecommunications system, died March 27 in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. He was 82.
  • Susan Nochajski
    4/2/15
    Susan M. Nochajski, clinical associate professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and director of the Occupational Therapy Program, died March 5.
  • Tripathi responds to Executive Order prohibiting travel to Indiana
    4/3/15
    President Satish K. Tripathi has released the following statement regarding Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive order banning state-funded or state-sponsored travel to the state of Indiana:
  • Walter Sarjeant
    4/9/15
    Walter J. “Jim” Sarjeant, a UB emeritus chair professor of electrical engineering who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory on what eventually became the International Space Station, died April 2, 2015 in Avow Hospice in Naples, Florida, after a nearly yearlong battle with complications from pneumonia. He was 70.
  • Bulls barbecue
    4/9/15
    Interested in meeting UB’s new head football coach?
  • Nursing’s Nelson lecture to feature cancer expert
    4/9/15
    Renowned cancer researcher Karen Meneses, PhD, will present the UB School of Nursing’s 5th Annual Margaret A. Nelson Lecture.
  • Rita Gless
    4/16/15
    Rita C. Gless, a longtime employee in the offices of Student Affairs and Veterans Affairs, died April 10 in the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in Cheektowaga. She was 90.
  • C. Brian Preston
    4/16/15
    C. Brian Preston, chair of the Department of Orthodontics in the School of Dental Medicine, died March 25 in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital after a short illness. He was 77.
  • Passport Day on South Campus
    4/16/15
    UB faculty, staff and students on the South Campus who need to obtain or renew a passport for travel this summer may do so on April 22 at Passport Day on the South Campus.
  • Zodiaque Dance Ensemble to perform
    4/16/15
    The spring concert of the Zodiaque Dance Ensemble, one of UB’s resident student dance companies, will take place April 17-19 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
  • Dover Quartet to perform
    4/16/15
    The Dover Quartet, which swept all the prizes at the prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2013, will make its first Buffalo appearance on April 22 at UB.
  • Theatre & Dance to present ‘Spring Awakening’
    4/16/15
    The Department of Theatre & Dance Department will present the indie rock musical “Spring Awakening” April 23-26 and April 30 through May 3 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
  • Bring Your Kids to Work Day
    4/16/15
    Bring kids to work on April 27
  • EOC sponsors conference for Women's History Month
    4/16/15
    To mark Women’s History Month, UB’s Educational Opportunity Center recently sponsored a conference, “Preparation Meets Opportunity: A Woman’s Pathway to Success.”
  • ‘BAND against Bullying’ returns to UB
    4/21/15
    UB’s Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention again joins forces with Hodgson Russ LLP and M&T Bank for another “BAND Against Bullying” school arts competition at 7 p.m. April 28 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
  • Panel to discuss expanding access to higher ed
    4/21/15
    A group of UB experts and students will hold a panel discussion on ways to strengthen efforts to make UB more accessible to underrepresented communities.
  • Faculty recitals close concert season
    4/23/15
    The Department of Music will conclude its 2014-15 concert season with two faculty recitals.
  • CSTEP students to hold organ-donation registry drive
    4/23/15
    More than 100,000 persons in the U.S. currently are waiting for a life-saving or life-improving organ, but an average of 18 people die daily waiting for an organ and about 132 people are added to the waiting list per day.
  • Memorial service for Susan Nochajski
    4/23/15
    A celebration of the life of UB faculty member Susan M. Nochajski will be held at 4:30 p.m. May 1 in Butler Auditorium, 150 Farber Hall, South Campus.
  • Builder of African footbridges to speak at UB
    4/22/15
    In rural Kenya, a footbridge can mean the difference between life and death.
  • William A. Hamlen Jr.
    4/23/15
    William A. Hamlen Jr., associate professor emeritus in the School of Management, died April 15 in his East Amherst home after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 69.
  • In-service training offered
    4/23/15
    April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the UB Violence Prevention Team is holding in-service training designed to raise awareness about sexual violence, educate members of the UB community on how to prevent it and provide support for those who have experienced it.
  • Same-sex marriage topic of talk
    4/24/15
    With the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments on April 28 in four cases that ultimately will determine whether same-sex couples have the constitutional right to marry in every state, UB Law School faculty member Michael Boucai will offer a primer on the issue during a brown bag lecture sponsored by the LGBTQ Faculty & Staff Association.
  • Bike to work on May 15
    4/30/15
    National Bike to Work Day is Friday, May 15, and UB Parking and Transportation Services is inviting members of the UB community to take part in the event.
  • Barbara J. Christy
    4/30/15
    Barbara J. Christy, a longtime UB employee and former president of the university’s CSEA chapter, died April 22 at home after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. She was 84.
  • Harvard physicist to give Rustgi lecture
    4/30/15
    You may have heard of the material graphene: Made from a single layer of carbon atoms, it’s exceedingly thin, light and strong. Its unique properties have engineers dreaming of futuristic technologies, like ultra-high-speed transistors and feather-light composites for building aircraft. Its huge potential for novel applications also has been recognized by the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • Music offers free concerts
    4/30/15
    Budget-conscious music lovers will find a wealth of free concerts available in May at UB. 
  • Zhang wins first prize in bioengineering poster contest
    4/30/15
    Yumiao Zhang, a PhD student in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering, won the first-place prize out of a field of 150 entrants for his poster presentation last month at the 41st Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC 2015).