Need to Know

Lisa Genova, best-selling author of “Still Alice,” will speak at UB on Dec. 6 as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series.

The UB men’s basketball team continued to move up in the national rankings on Monday, securing spots in both the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls.

UB Police made an arrest today in connection with the hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a UB student earlier this month.

The UB Women’s Club will hold its holiday luncheon to raise money for student scholarships on Dec. 7 at Banchetti by Rizzo, 550 French Road, Amherst.

President Satish K. Tripathi has approved and promulgated a resolution from the Faculty Senate that support’s UB’s commitment to members of the university community who are not U.S. citizens.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is the topic for this year’s Genteels' Excellence in Teaching Conference on Nov. 26.

The Equipment Loan Closet in UB’s Center for Assistive Technology has received a $30,000 grant from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services to continue its work loaning assistive technology devices to individuals with visual impairments.

Steven E. Lipshultz, Carman and Ann Adams Endowed Chair of Pediatric Research at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Michigan, has been appointed the A. Conger Goodyear Professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

Peter Diamandis, an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space, will visit UB on Nov. 14 as part of the university’s Distinguished Speakers Series.