Lynne Hochberg Pace
6/4/15
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. June 6 in Amherst Memorial Chapel, 281 Dodge Road, Getzville, for Lynne Hochberg Pace, an ophthalmologist and former UB clinical faculty member who died April 14 from brain cancer at her winter home in Arizona. She was 63.
Farmers market to open June 6
6/4/15
The University Community Farmers Market will open for its ninth season on June 6 at its old location along the Main Street sidewalk at Kenmore Avenue at the edge of the South Campus.
UB Smile Team honored
6/4/15
The UB Smile Team will receive the Daniel Acker Community Service Award at the Buffalo Branch NAACP’s 100th Anniversary Dinner, to be held June 14.
Restoration work begins at MacKay
6/4/15
Work to repair the 84-year-old MacKay Heating Plant on the South Campus has begun.
Gerald Logue
6/11/15
Gerald L. Logue, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hematology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, died June 7 in the VA Medical Center after a brief illness. He was 73.
UB to co-sponsor local companies at BIO International Convention
6/11/15
UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, in collaboration with the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, MedTech and National Grid, will co-sponsor 10 local biotech companies at the 2015 BIO International Convention, the world’s largest event for the biotechnology industry.
Renew parking permits online
6/18/15
Faculty and staff are urged to “be green” and apply online for their 2015-16 parking permit renewal.
QUIT program enrolling participants
6/18/15
UB’s QUIT smoking cessation program, which boasts of a success rate of nearly 80 percent among those finishing treatment, returns for another run this summer and fall, giving smokers — especially the heaviest ones — what could be their best chance to stop the habit.
Unplug, unwind during Daylight Hour
6/18/15
Members of the UB community are invited to join their SUNY colleagues in showing the impact we all can have on reducing energy consumption by taking part in Daylight Hour on Friday.
UB to host July 4 fireworks
6/25/15
Tens of thousands of spectators will flock to the North Campus on July 4 to watch a spectacular fireworks display over Lake LaSalle and celebrate Independence Day.
UUP discretionary nominations due by Sept. 4
6/25/15
United University Professions (UUP) members may nominate themselves to receive a discretionary award by forwarding a self-nomination to their department chair or director by Sept. 4.
Elizabeth “Betty” Kopra
6/25/15
Elizabeth A. “Betty” Kopra, a longtime UB employee and retired assistant vice president for sponsored programs, died May 6.