Need to Know

Campus Dining and Shops invites all members of the UB community to pick up nutrient-rich soil amendment, free of charge, for use in flower and vegetable gardens or as a compost supplement.

Computer vision is staking its claim as artificial intelligence’s hottest research field. A new set of online courses examines how this technology is enabling computers to visually process the world.   

UB’s Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music will welcome ELISION Ensemble for their first visit to campus.

High school students who love science and are interested in computers are invited to apply for the Eric Pitman Summer Workshop in Computational Science, presented annually by the UB Center for Computational Research (CCR).

A warm-up is on the way — we promise! — and that means it's time to get your bicycle road ready with a tune-up.

UB will host a public presentation by New York State Commissioner of Education MaryEllen Elia, who will discuss current education initiatives and future plans for the State Education Department.

The Department of Music is teaming up with the SUNY Buffalo State Digital Music Program to present a concert of interactive computer  music/media/electronics on April 16. The performance is free and starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, Center for the Arts.

The concert is being presented by the Hiller Computer Music Studios and the UB Department of Music, and will feature faculty and students from Buffalo State's Digital Music Program and UB faculty from the Department of Media Studies and Department of Music.

Music by Tomás Henriques, Ethan Hayden, Evan Courtin, Jason Geistweidt, Jeffrey Stadelman, and Cort Lippe, along with special guest ensemble f-f-f-f-Faulty Tower, featuring Brendan Fitzgerald on percussion and electronics.

Pianist Shai Wosner will perform Schubert’s most monumental works Friday evening in the final Slee Visiting Artist Series concert of the season.

A workshop to gather feedback to help create a vision for the proposed Metro Rail extension from UB’s South Campus to the North Campus will take place from 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 10 in 217 Hayes Hall, South Campus.

Exactly how jaw joints work — and how the myriad other bones and joints in the body, human and otherwise, do their work, also known as biomechanics — is the subject of National Biomechanics Day, which will be celebrated from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 12 at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.