Need to Know

Award-winning actor and science communicator Alan Alda will visit UB on May 2 as the final speaker in the university’s Distinguished Speakers Series for 2017-18.

The UB community is invited to a celebration at 11:30 a.m. April 30 for the start of something big — and bold — for the University at Buffalo.

Members of the UB community can join the UB LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association for the 26th Annual AIDS Walk Buffalo on May 5 near Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park.

During the fourth annual UB Giving Day, from noon April 30 to noon May 1, we’re challenging UB faculty, staff, alumni, students, parents and friends from around the world to unite for one cause — the University at Buffalo.

UB Relay For Life is partnering with Campus Dining & Shops to sell purple ribbon cookies to benefit the relay and raise funds to fight cancer.

UB alumna and ethnographer Hilary E. Kahn will explore international education through the eyes of a cultural anthropologist at a lecture at UB on April 25.

UB’s Research Institute on Addictions will host its third Student Research in Addiction Sciences Open House on April 25 to showcase the collaborative addictions research work conducted across many disciplines at UB.

The relationship between UB’s three campuses and the surrounding city neighborhoods will be the topic of the next installment of UB’s Difficult Conversations series.

The next meeting of the Buffalo Chapter of the National Stuttering Association — formerly the Buffalo Stuttering Support Group — will take place at 6 p.m. April 18 at the Speech & Hearing Clinic, 52 Biomedical Educational Building on the UB South Campus.

There’s a new alternative to the traditional desk phone for UB employees who want a better way to communicate in real time at work. Meet Cisco Jabber.