Need to Know

Updated September 17, 2026

  • SUNY awards funding to 2 UB scientists
    9/17/26
    State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr. recently announced the latest round of seed funding through the Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF), which provides grants to faculty inventors and scientists.
  • GSE’s Kim named SUNY AI for the Public Good Fellow
    9/17/26
    Namsook Kim, clinical associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, Graduate School of Education, has been named to the second cohort of SUNY’s AI for the Public Good Fellows. SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. announced the new cohort earlier this week.
  • LGBTQ FSA membership drive opens
    9/15/26
    The LGBTQ FSA membership drive for 2026-2027 is now open.
  • Grad students receive inaugural Zubrow Award
    9/14/26
    Through their generous support, longstanding UB faculty members Marcia and Ezra Zubrow have established a new award to assist graduate scholarship. The award is officially known as the Marcia and Ezra Zubrow Award in Anthropology, Law, Library Science and Heritage, and aims to provide support to students whose work is in the areas of heritage, culture, legal pluralism, labor policy, or librarianship.
  • Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle opens Sept. 24
    9/11/26
    The Department of Music will welcome the acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet to Slee Hall this month. Nicholas Kitchen, the quartet’s first violinist and founding member, will present a public talk at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 23 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the North Campus. The full quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. the next evening in Lippes Concert Hall.
  • UB’s Spectrum hosts Alumni Roundtable
    9/11/26
    The Spectrum — UB’s student newspaper — welcomes all to its Spectrum Alumni Roundtable scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17 in 1032 Clemens Hall.
  • PSS to hold e-recycling event Sept. 17
    9/9/26
    The UB Professional Staff Senate will be hosting an electronics recycling, Blue Table food drive and clothing collection on the North Campus on Sept. 17.
  • Vaccination clinics set to begin on campus
    9/8/26
    Flu and COVID-19 vaccination clinics are being offered for UB students, staff and faculty starting Sept. 10 and running until early November.
  • UB to host WNY Law Fair
    9/8/26
    The UB School of Law will host the Western New York Law Fair, bringing together prospective law students and representatives from approximately 50 law schools for a day of exploration, networking and learning.
  • New payment readers for campus vending machines
    8/14/26
    Students, faculty, staff and visitors now have more ways to pay at campus vending machines.