Past News Briefs

Jordan Levy—venture capitalist, entrepreneur, Synacor board member and co-founder of Buffalo’s Z80 Labs technology incubator—will speak with UB students on April 17, offering his take on why we need to change the way we think to foster entrepreneurship.

A candlelight vigil to raise awareness of sexual violence will be held from 7-9 p.m. April 18 on the North Campus. Attendees will gather in the Flag Room, second floor of the Student Union, and then walk to Baird Point for the vigil.

Maurizio Trevisan, founding dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions and an expert on how lifestyle and metabolic factors help cause or prevent cardiovascular disease, is returning to UB to give the 2013 Saxon Graham lecture on April 12.

Approximately 400 works of art on paper from the David Anderson Charitable Trust Collection will be on sale to the public from 1-6 p.m. May 5 in Center for the Arts, North Campus.

UB’s final home football game of the 2013 season against Bowling Green on Nov. 29 has been moved to Ralph Wilson Stadium in what is being billed as the “Black Friday Clash at the Ralph.”

Several classrooms in Kimball Tower on the South Campus are closed until further notice due to emergency repairs to a safety-access ladder on the roof of the building.

UB music faculty members Jonathan Golove and John Bacon will take part in the final presentation of the 2012-13 season of “A Musical Feast,” a performance series sponsored by the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College.

The UB Child Care Center (UBCCC) will kick off its annual celebration of the Week of the Young Child with a 5k Family Fun Walk on April 13 to raise awareness and money for UBCCC, which provides care for the youngest members of the UB community.

Children between 8 and 12 years old learned about levitating magnets, floating superconductors and cool (no pun intended) things you can do with liquid nitrogen during demonstrations done by UB Honors College students earlier this week as part of the Buffalo Museum of Science’s “Fantastic Physics” spring break science camp.

The Department of Music will present a number of free concerts during April, among them the final Brown Bag Concert of the year on April 2.