Need to Know

“The Laramie Project,” a play about the reaction of residents of Laramie, Wyoming, to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, will be presented at UB next month as part of the Department of Theatre and Dance’s Student-Directed Series.

Full and part-time UB faculty and staff represented by UUP and CSEA, or who are paid through the UB Foundation or Research Foundation, and are now working, or will be working, in the new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus can receive a free NFTA transit pass under the provisions of a new memorandum of agreement between UB and the unions.

UB employees can learn the basics of ADHD — attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder — in a free session on Feb. 5 presented by UB’s Employee Assistance Program.

Members of the UB community are invited to explore the design and development of the university’s new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building with a key member of the team that designed the state-of-the-art facility.

Faculty and staff can buy one ticket to a Department of Music concert this spring and receive one ticket free as part of a special ticket promotion on Feb. 2.

Want to get in better shape and have more strength, energy and stamina?

There’s a new chair in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning.

Athletics Director Allen Greene is leaving UB to lead the athletics program at Auburn University.

A multi-year project to dramatically improve Wi-Fi on UB’s three campuses is now complete, and students, faculty and staff should notice better speed and coverage.    

The School of Public Health and Health Professions has a new chair in the Department of Rehabilitation Science.