Need to Know

Published October 14, 2021

  • Energy use, distribution topic of SUNY Distinguished Academy webinar
    10/14/21
    SUNY’s Distinguished Faculty will examine some of the key issues regarding energy use and distribution across the globe at a SUNY Distinguished Academy Event on Oct. 29.
  • UB featured in PBS Newshour story
    10/13/21
    The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences was featured prominently in a story that aired on PBS Newshour on Oct. 13.
  • Nursing awarded honor society award
    10/11/21
    The globally prestigious Sigma Theta Tau International nursing honor society has selected UB’s local chapter for a 2021 Chapter Key Award.
  • CTSI pilot studies colloquium set for Oct. 15
    10/8/21
    Researchers affiliated with UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) will highlight their innovative research projects that received 2019-20 CTSI Translational Pilot Studies awards at the 2021 Translational Pilot Studies Program Clinical and Translational Research Colloquium on Oct. 15.
  • PSS sponsors electronics recycling event
    10/6/21
    The Professional Staff Senate’s Sustainable Living Committee is sponsoring a free electronics recycling event, as well as a food drive for UB’s Blue Table food pantry, on Oct. 28 at the Center for Tomorrow.
  • Link between climate, disease topic of Lee lecture
    10/5/21
    Jeffrey Shaman, director of the Climate and Health Program at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, will explore the relationship between disease systems and the broader effects of climate and weather on human health at the Sixth Annual Richard V. Lee, MD, Lectureship in Global Health on Oct. 29.
  • Libraries to digitize historic issues of The Buffalo News
    10/4/21
    To preserve information and images contained within historic newspapers, the UB Libraries will reformat and digitize 150 microfilm reels — close to 150,000 images — containing issues of The Buffalo Evening News published from 1905-15.
  • UB to provide sustainable period products
    9/28/21
    UB has partnered with CampusCup in an effort to provide free, sustainable menstrual cups to students and UB alumni.
  • Duke to open speakers series
    9/27/21
    Actor and UB alumnus Winston Duke will open the 35th addition of UB’s Distinguished Speakers Series with a talk at 7 p.m. Oct. 13 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
  • Harvard psychiatrist to deliver Golden mind-body lecture
    9/23/21
    Timothy Scarella, staff psychiatrist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, will deliver the 19th Annual Lawrence and Nancy Golden Lecture in Mind-Body Medicine presented by the Department of Medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.