Need to Know

Shannon N. Zenk, director of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), will give the School of Nursing’s 25th Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture on April 22.

UB has become an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), an independent professional development, training and mentoring community that supports faculty members, postdocs and graduate students in making successful transitions throughout their careers.

Ericka Hart, a Black queer femme activist and writer, will give the inaugural University Pride Lecture on April 11 to kick off UB’s Pride Week celebration.

Faculty and staff interested in global public health are invited to attend the SUNY- University of the West Indies (UWI) Health Research Consortium Conference.

The School of Law’s Center for the Advancement of Sport will host a discussion with Daniel Milstein, the NHL’s “superagent” for numerous prominent Russian players, from noon to 1 p.m. March 18 via Zoom.

Conservationist and environmental journalist Jeff Corwin will speak at UB on April 5 to close the 2021-22 Distinguished Speakers Series.

Archana Mishra is an accomplished faculty member in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. As a pulmonologist and critical care doctor, she has cared for patients internationally and in the U.S. Throughout the pandemic, she has been a frontline worker at the Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center, tending to patients in the intensive care unit.

Have questions about the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Hear from some UB experts at a “Ukraine/Russia Teach-in” on March 4.

UB leadership is in consultation with SUNY and the Erie County Department of Health about mask requirements on UB’s three campuses.