• Mendola named chair of epidemiology and environmental health
    4/3/20
    Pauline Mendola earned her bachelor’s (’85), master’s (’90) and doctorate (’84) from UB. She started her professional career as a clerk in what is now the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health. After earning her PhD in epidemiology and community health, she served for a time as a faculty member in the department.
  • Ostrov appointed to NIH study section
    4/6/20
    Jamie Ostrov, professor in the Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Review Study Section.
  • UB encourages staff to wear masks when appropriate
    4/7/20
    UB is “strongly encouraging” essential staff members working on campus to wear face coverings when in close proximity to other individuals or when providing customer services.
  • Bring UB home with Zoom backgrounds
    4/8/20
    Missing your campus community? We are, too. That’s why University Communications created a special collection of 50+ Zoom backgrounds to help members of the UB community re-connect with fellow Bulls and show some UB pride during video conferences with students, faculty, staff, family and friends.
  • Peter F. Regan III
    4/9/20
    Peter F. Regan III, a noted educator and psychiatrist who served as UB’s acting president during the period of campus unrest in the 1970s, died suddenly on April 5. He was 95.
  • Retirements
    4/10/20
    The following UB employees retired from the university from January 2020 through March 2020:
  • Virtual info session to help ease college-decision process
    4/14/20
    The Office of the Vice Provost for Enrollment Management is holding a virtual information session for UB employees who have a child or other relative in the final phases of the college decision-making process and may have questions about how to navigate the process during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Weber to lead updated Climate Action Plan webinar on Earth Day
    4/16/20
    As the university celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, UB leaders will conduct a webinar discussing UB’s updated Climate Action Plan.
  • Free soil amendment during Earth Week
    4/17/20
    Campus Dining and Shops invites all members of the UB community to pick up nutrient-rich soil amendment, free of charge, for use in flower and vegetable gardens or as a compost supplement.
  • SUNY negotiates new deal with Elsevier
    4/21/20
    After more than a year of negotiations, SUNY and Elsevier have reached a new agreement on access to 248 core titles from the ScienceDirect database.
  • ‘Thank a nurse’ through nursing school campaign
    4/21/20
    The School of Nursing is showing its support and gratitude to the nursing community by collecting messages of encouragement that it will share with nursing colleagues and those whose lives have been touched by the nursing profession.
  • Millions of steps already logged in SPHHP’s Step Challenge
    4/24/20
    For the past five years, the goal of the School of Public Health and Health Professions’ Step Challenge has been to inspire people to improve their health and reduce stress. And that goal has been especially relevant and necessary during today’s unique and worrying time.
  • Veterans Legal Practicum moves help desks online
    4/28/20
    Since fall 2018, the School of Law has offered a Veterans Legal Practicum to serve the legal needs of those who have served and their families. As part of this grant, the practicum established “help desks” at the law school’s clinic, WNY Heroes in Erie County and SERV Niagara.
  • UB’s athletic training program receives accreditation
    4/30/20
    The Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE) has awarded UB’s Athletic Training Program initial accreditation.