Need to Know

UB faculty and staff who feel they need help keeping their New Year’s resolutions can attend a free, half-day program on Jan. 23 sponsored by Wellness and Work/Life Balance.

The Eighth Annual Feminist Theory Workshop, co-sponsored by the UB Institute for Education and Research on Women and Gender — informally known as the Gender Institute — will be held March 21-22 at Duke University.

UB staff and domestic students are being recruited to serve as mentors for newly arrived international students during the spring 2014 semester. Participants need not know about other cultures, speak other languages or have traveled overseas.

UB faculty, staff, students and members of the Alumni Association can dispose of their old computers and other electronics at a free computer and electronics recycling event Jan. 22 on the North Campus.

UB will join individuals and organizations across the country in observing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Jan. 20 with a day of service.

UB’s 2013 Employees Campaign for the Community has raised $738,093, or 87 percent of its goal of $850,000.

With the arrival of winter weather, Parking and Transportation Services offers some tips for members of the UB community to help make travel to and around campus easier:

UB’s 2013 Employees Campaign for the Community has raised $697,903, or 82 percent of its goal of $850,000.

The Option Transfer Period for state employees, during which workers can change their health insurance carrier, voluntarily cancel coverage or delete dependents, runs through Dec. 31.

UB’s 2013 Employees Campaign for the Community has raised $644,397, or 76 percent of its goal of $850,000.