Need to Know

Published December 11, 2025

  • Athletics offering free tickets to women’s game
    12/14/16
    Join the 8-0 UB women’s basketball team as it attempts to break the school record for best start in program history when it takes on St. Bonaventure on Dec. 21.
  • Furry friends return for Stress Relief Days
    12/8/16
    Felling stressed? Therapy dogs will be back in the stacks to help members of the UB community relieve that end-of-the-semester stress.
  • EDI launches new training program
    12/8/16
    The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) has launched a new, online, employee training program on sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and other forms of abusive conduct. 
  • Applications open for WNY Prosperity Scholarship
    12/6/16
    Outstanding UB students are encouraged to apply for the 2017-18 Western New York Prosperity Scholarship, which awards up to $25,000 per year to fund the studies of entrepreneurial and civic-minded UB students.
  • Cleese next speaker in UB series
    12/1/16
    Actor John Cleese, whose work includes “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” “Fawlty Towers” and the Oscar-nominated film “A Fish Called Wanda,” will speak at UB on Dec. 9 as part of the university’s Distinguished Speakers Series.
  • UB issues statement on the tragic events at Ohio State
    11/28/16
    The thoughts and prayers of the University at Buffalo are with the Ohio State University community as it responds to and copes with today’s tragic events.
  • PEP now available
    11/28/16
    Eligible UB employees can now enroll in the Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP) for 2017, which allows employees to exchange previously accrued vacation and/or personal leave for a credit to be applied toward the employee share of their New York State Health Insurance Program premiums on a biweekly basis.
  • Sarah Elder film to be screened
    11/23/16
    “Remains to be Seen: Performing the Archive,” a film by UB faculty member Sarah Elder, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.
  • Law school to hold post-election forum
    11/23/16
    Faculty members from the School of Law will discuss issues regarding the 2016 presidential election at a forum on Nov. 28 at the law school.
  • Corman poetry and Japanese art on display at UB
    11/23/16
    “Cid Corman: In Collaboration,” an exhibition of the works of internationally acclaimed poet, author and publisher Cid Corman, is now on display in the UB Poetry Collection.