Need to Know

The search for the next vice provost for university libraries is underway, with the appointment of a search committee headed by Suzanne Rosenblith, dean of the Graduate School of Education.

The Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) is hosting two workshops next week designed to help faculty improve their teaching.

The Office of Inclusive Excellence is presenting two talks next months in association with the exhibition “Revolution: Civil Rights at UB, 1960-1975,” currently on display in the Silverman Library.

Gary Giovino, an internationally renowned authority on tobacco and nicotine in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, has taken on a new role with the school. He was named SPHHP’s associate dean for faculty affairs, effective Feb. 4.

UB will holds its fourth annual Shared Governance Day on March 5 with a joint meeting of the Faculty Senate and the Professional Staff Senate.

“Legacies on the Landscape: Buildings and Names at UB” is the topic of the next session in the Difficult Conversations series being held from noon to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Landmark Room, 210 Student Union, North Campus.

Members of the UB community can get a tutorial on Webex, UB’s private, online meeting space, at information sessions taking place this month on the North and South campuses.

The Department of Transnational Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will celebrate five decades of African and African-American studies at UB with a 50th Anniversary Symposium on Feb. 12.

When disaster threatens all of humanity, which professor will make the cut to join the survivors?

Robin Schulze, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Charles F. Zukoski, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, will introduce Bronwyn Keenan, the college’s new director of the Arts Collaboratory, at a meet-and-greet reception from 11 a.m. to noon Feb. 7 in the Center for the Arts atrium.