UB’s Employee Assistance Program offers several on-going support groups to help faculty, staff and their families deal with a variety of issues.

UB commuters who take the I-990 southbound from the North Campus will have to find a new route temporarily, beginning June 12, when the ramp from the Audubon Parkway is closed for 10 days so that reconstruction work in the I-990 bridges can continue.

UB’s Employee Assistance Program is offering two free workshops on Integrated Amrita Meditation Technique (IAMT) to UB faculty and staff, retirees and their families.

Jose Aviles, associate vice provost and director of admissions, is leaving his position at UB to become the inaugural senior associate vice president of enrollment management and chief enrollment officer at Louisiana State University.

In one 24-hour period last month, UB alumni and friends met a challenge that unlocked $25,000 from the UB Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Volunteers are needed to help with Western New York’s celebration of World Refugee Day, a global event initiated in 2000 by the United Nations that is designed to recognize the people who add diversity to our communities.

UB’s Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences (CIGBS) has awarded the HIV Research Trust Award to Waheed Adeola Adedeji, a physician scientist at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

Ellen Volpe, assistant professor and researcher in the School of Nursing, died June 8 in in a car accident on the Thruway. She was 45.

Derek Nichols, who was most recently director of education and outreach for Grassroots Gardens WNY, has been named sustainability engagement coordinator at UB.

The ramp from the Audubon Parkway at Flint Road to northbound Millersport Highway will be closed from 8 a.m. to noon on June 16 so that workers can repair street lights.

Some roads and parking lots on the eastern end of the North Campus will be closed, beginning on June 19, as UB hosts the Ride for Roswell on June 24.

Aaron Bartley, co-founder and executive director of the community development agency People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH), is the recipient of the first annual Alison Des Forges Memorial Award.

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.

President Satish Tripathi has been named the Mid-American Conference’s representative to the NCAA Board of Directors. The appointment was made at the MAC Council of President’s meeting held recently in Cleveland.

Philip Coppens, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry, died June 21. He was 86.

Rabbi Shay E. Mintz, a Jewish educator and spiritual leader who served as director of Hillel at UB for more than a decade, died June 3 in Jerusalem. He was 80.

UB has received the green light from New York State to take the next step in a multiple-step process leading to the construction of an athletics field house.

Cindi Tysick, associate librarian and head of the Educational Services Team in Lockwood Library, will discuss “Finding Free, High-Quality Information and Research in the Social Sciences” in the next installment of the Bridge Lecture Series on June 28.

The Center for the Arts has selected Ticketfly to be its new official ticketing provider. The agreement goes into effect July 1.