With summer vacation right around the corner, school supplies for the fall are probably the last thing on anyone’s mind right now.

Michael W. Kibby, professor emeritus in the Graduate School of Education and an internationally recognized authority on reading education, died May 16 at his Williamsville home. He was 81.

The renewal and application processes are now open for faculty/staff parking permits for the 2024-25 academic year.

Arthur Efron, a faculty member in the Department of English for more than 40 years, died May 16. He was 92.

Blue Path brings Western New York high school students interested in health careers to UB for two weeks during the summer to cultivate and refine skills central to thriving careers in epidemiology, health policy and economics, exercise science, occupational therapy, community health, nutrition, dietetics and more.

Campus Dining and Shops (CDS) has received a gold award in the 2024 Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards sponsored by the National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS).

The Clinical Nutrition MS program in the School of Public Health and Health Professions has been accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics, ACEND, for the next seven years, the longest term possible.

Destination Dental School, the annual weeklong, hands-on program that offers college students and bachelor-degree recipients interested in dentistry the chance to learn the intricacies of the profession, is taking place June 23-27 on the South Campus. 

UB staff members can get an update on AI at UB and learn how it’s being used by their colleagues across campus at an AI Forum for UB Staff on July 18.

A UB team of chefs took the bronze medal in the team competition at the 30th annual Chef Culinary Conference, held earlier this month at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.