Need to Know

Published December 11, 2025

  • One World Café construction prompts closures
    1/22/20
    As work ramps up on One World Café, an internationally themed food court being built between Capen and Norton halls on the North Campus, access to interior and exterior areas around the construction site will be restricted, beginning Jan. 24.
  • MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winner to speak at UB
    1/17/20
    Evolutionary anthropologist and geneticist Jenny Tung, a 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner, will be the keynote speaker at the 15th Biological Sciences Research Symposium at UB. The fellowship is often referred to as the MacArthur “genius grant.”
  • UB CAT seeking faculty proposals
    1/15/20
    The UB Center for Advanced Technology in Big Data and Health Sciences (UB CAT) is seeking proposals from faculty to fund collaborative projects with industry that are centered on big data and health sciences.
  • Deadline of Feb. 28 set for workplace violence prevention training
    1/14/20
    Employee Relations is reminding all UB faculty and staff of the annual requirement to complete online workplace violence prevention training.
  • Battle to receive Jaeckle award
    1/10/20
    Former U.S. Attorney Michael A. Battle will receive the School of Law’s 2020 Edwin F. Jaeckle Award.
  • UB Women’s Club to hold wine-pairing dinner
    1/9/20
    The UB Women’s Club will hold its annual dinner and wine pairing to raise money for the Grace Capen scholarship on Feb. 1 at the Fairdale Banquet Center, 672 Wehrle Drive, Amherst.
  • Free movie in Alumni
    1/2/20
    Take the family to the movies at Alumni Arena on Jan. 3 for a free showing of Disney Pixar’s “Incredibles 2.”
  • UB to close Dec. 25, Jan. 1
    12/12/19
    UB will be closed on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays.
  • UB community invited to weigh in on police accreditation
    12/9/19
    A team of assessors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) will visit UB Dec. 16 as part of the UB Police Department’s (UPD) voluntary effort to gain its second successive accreditation from the IACLEA.
  • Public forums set for finalists in provost search
    11/27/19
    The finalists in the search for a new provost and executive vice president for academic affairs have been identified and they will be visiting UB Dec. 4, 5, 9, 10, and 11.