Need to Know

Published December 11, 2025

  • PSS to hold end-of-semester potluck
    12/5/18
    The Professional Staff Senate’s Inclusion & Diversity Committee will hold its annual End-of-the-Semester Potluck Extravaganza from noon to 1:30 p.m. Dec. 18 in 210 Student Union, North Campus.
  • Bible signs commitment to promote DEI in IT
    12/4/18
    J. Brice Bible, vice president and chief information officer, has joined nearly 400 senior higher education IT leaders from across the U.S. in pledging to promote diversity, equity and inclusion, both locally and across higher education.
  • Open forums set for finalists in police chief search
    11/30/18
    Three finalists in the search for a new chief of police have been identified and they will be visiting UB next week to meet with university and community stakeholders.
  • Student choreographers to present new work
    11/29/18
    The Department of Theatre and Dance will present the Emerging Choreographers Showcase 2018 Nov. 30 through Dec. 2 in the Katharine Cornell Theatre in the Ellicott Complex, North Campus.
  • Walk to Victory to send Bulls off in style
    11/28/18
    The UB football team is leaving tomorrow for Detroit for its first appearance in a MAC Championship game in a decade, and members of the UB community can turn out for a “Walk to Victory” to send the team off in style.
  • Can libraries save scholarship?
    11/28/18
    Jeffrey Spies, co-leader of SHARE and co-founder of the Center for Open Science, will speak on the critical role libraries play in supporting open academic research at a talk on Nov. 30 sponsored by the UB Libraries.
  • Watch parties set for MAC Championship game
    11/28/18
    Bulls fans who don’t make the trek to Detroit for the MAC Championship game can watch their team take on Northern Illinois on Friday at a number of watch parties.
  • Help plan 2019 WNY Refugee Health Summit
    11/27/18
    For the past five years, UB and local partners have convened clinicians, resettlement representatives, community health workers, researchers, students, municipal leaders and refugees from Western New York for an annual refugee health summit.
  • Turn in campaign pledge on #GivingTuesday
    11/21/18
    #GivingTuesday, the biggest giving day of the year, is Nov. 27, and UB employees are urged to turn in their Campaign for the Community pledges on this global day of giving.
  • Genova up next in DSS
    11/20/18
    Lisa Genova, best-selling author of “Still Alice,” will speak at UB on Dec. 6 as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series.