Volunteers from UB, PS #37 Futures Academy and the community will be participating in the 21st annual Fruit Belt Clean-a-Thon, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 5. The event is sponsored by the UB Center for Urban Studies, PS #37 Futures Academy, the Fruit Belt Coalition and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Hillel of Buffalo has announced the appointment of Jeff Clark as executive director of the organization that supports 1,500 Jewish students at UB, SUNY Buffalo State University and other local campuses.

The ninth annual UB Giving Day, held April 20-21, raised a record $1,774,205 from 2,778 donors who showed their UB pride by making gifts to departments and units and participating in challenges, including gift matches.

The five finalists in the search for a new dean of the School of Architecture and Planning will visit campus next week to meet with senior academic and administrative leadership, faculty, staff, students and alumni.

The School of Management has named Dorothy Siaw-Asamoah director of its Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness.

Steven L. Shaw, associate vice provost and director of the Office of International Admissions, died May 2 at his Amherst home. He was 63.

UB faculty, staff and students are encouraged to use an alternative method of transportation to get to campus on Green Your Commute and Bike to Work Day May 18 on the Downtown Campus and May 19 on the North and South campuses.

During the 2023 tax season, 85 IRS-certified accounting students from the School of Management brought nearly $240,000 back into the Buffalo community through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.

Campus Dining and Shops (CDS) has received a gold award in the 2023 Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards sponsored by the National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS).

Victoria Wolcott, professor of history, has received The Living New Deal’s 2022 New Deal Book Award for her book “Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement.”

Blair Peters, a gender-affirming surgeon and advocate for LGBTQ health, will be the keynote speaker at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ inaugural LGBTQIA+ Education and Inclusivity in Health Care event on May 23.

Thirty international researchers are among those who will attend a workshop May 31 through June 2 in Buffalo focused on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), which is used by people who have trouble speaking or have lost the ability to speak.

Buffalo native Helene Gayle, an internationally recognized expert on health and humanitarian issues and president of Spelman College, will give the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ 2023 Harrington Lecture on June 3.