Rebecca H. Brierley, assistant dean for external affairs in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been elected chair-elect for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s (AACP) Administrative Services Section.

Former National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice will speak at UB on Feb. 28 as the featured speaker at the university’s 42nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration event.

Despina Stratigakos, professor in the School of Architecture and Planning, has been named interim vice provost for inclusive excellence, effective today.

A UB biostatistics researcher will be among the panelists at a public forum on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s electronic system for monitoring the safety of FDA-regulated medical products.

University Communications, in partnership with the Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness in the School of Management, will launch a survey designed to gain a deeper understanding of internal communication at UB.

The following UB employees retired from the university from October 2017 through December 2017:

The search for UB’s next athletics director has begun with the appointment of a search committee co-chaired by UB Council member Jonathan Dandes, BS ’74, president of Rich Baseball Operations, and Beth Del Genio, PhD ’01, chief of staff to the president.

UB students, think you’ve got a unique solution to a global problem? If so, stop by an informational session on Feb. 12 and learn about the World’s Challenge Challenge and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

The UB Art Galleries’ Screen Projects public art video initiative’s first offering of the spring semester is a video installation by contemporary Palestinian artist Sharif Waked that, Waked says, “ponders, imagines and interrogates fashion for Israeli checkpoints.”

Our dinner plate … and climate change?

Neal Plazio, executive chef for Campus Dining & Shops (CDS), has been named the 2018 Chef of the Year by the American Culinary Federation (ACF) of Greater Buffalo.

The University Libraries’ Sustainability Movie Series will premiere on Feb. 19 with a screening of “Gambling on Extinction” (2015), a documentary directed by Jakob Kneser about the illegal wildlife trade in Africa and Asia.

At a time when school shootings are seemingly common events, University Police offers departments and units across the university training that can help them prepare if such an incident ever happened at UB.

Scottish artist Jacqueline Donachie will screen and discuss her films “Hazel” and “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” Feb. 27 and March 1 as part of UB’s Arts Collaboratory Healthcare Initiative.

George Hochfield, professor emeritus of English and one of five UB faculty members embroiled in a landmark battle over academic freedom in the 1960s, died Jan. 17 in Oakland, California. He was 91.

Frank Cozzarelli, a longtime faculty member in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, died Jan. 25 in his North Buffalo home after a period of declining health. He was 84.

Concert organist and Jamestown native Joshua Stafford will present a recital on UB’s landmark Fisk Organ at 7:30 p.m. March 2 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.

State Assemblyman Sean Ryan on Monday called for a minimum of $3.5 million to be included in this year’s state budget to fund UB’s technology-based economic development programs, which helped industry partners create 372 new jobs in Buffalo in fiscal 2016-17.

The Department of Theatre and Dance will present William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” March 9-11 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

The Zodiaque Dance Ensemble, celebrating its 20th anniversary season, will present its spring concert, “Cool Hunting,” March 9-11 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.