Need to Know

Published August 14, 2026

  • UB Startup Week returns
    9/14/21
    UB Startup Week will take place from Sept. 19-24, with events celebrating UB’s innovation and startup ecosystem.
  • Virtual Vic aims to improve customer service
    9/8/21
    Several UB departments have deployed a new AI-powered chatbot to their websites to provide answers to the UB community’s most-asked questions, 24 hours a day.
  • UBEOC to host ‘Rocking and Enrolling’
    9/2/21
    UB’s Educational Opportunity Center will host its first “Rocking and Enrolling” family-friendly community recruitment event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 11 at its downtown center at 555 Ellicott St.
  • Campus visits set for VP/dean finalists
    8/31/21
    Five finalists for UB's leadership role as vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will conduct campus visits over the next few weeks, the search committee has announced.
  • Join UB colleagues at Fall Semester Welcome
    8/16/21
    It’s been one heck of a year and a half. And to celebrate, the UB community’s full return to campus, President Satish K. Tripathi and Provost A. Scott Weber are hosting a Fall Semester Welcome next week, just prior to the start of the fall semester.
  • Nurse anesthetist program reaccredited
    8/3/21
    The Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia (COA) has reaccredited the School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Nurse Anesthetist Program for 10 years, the maximum accreditation status a program can achieve.
  • MUP program reaccredited with distinction
    8/2/21
    UB’s professional Master of Urban Planning program has been reaccredited for the longest term possible by the discipline’s national accrediting board.
  • Volunteer at UB Spirit Team tent for Ride for Roswell
    7/30/21
    UB employees who are not riding in the Ride for Roswell on Aug. 7 can still help the UB Spirit Team by volunteering for a shift at the team’s tent on the North Campus.
  • ‘Rediscover UB’ welcomes employees back to campus
    7/29/21
    With UB faculty and staff transitioning to back to campus, Wellness and Work Life Balance and the Employee Assistance Program have planned “Rediscover UB,” a week of activities designed to celebrate employees’ hard work and resilience throughout the pandemic.
  • PSS reactivating networking group
    7/28/21
    As UB employees return to campus for the fall semester, the Professional Staff Senate is reactivating its Lunch Bunch Club networking program.