Need to Know

UB has been selected to be the United States host this summer for the Zimbabwe Emerging Faculty Development Program.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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

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.