UB’s Schussmeisters Ski Club is gearing up for its 53rd season by offering special membership deals to faculty, staff and alumni, and their family members.

UB staff and domestic students are being recruited to serve as mentors for newly arrived international students during the fall 2013 semester. Participants need not know about other cultures, speak other languages or have traveled overseas.

UB collected more than 22,000 items as part of a school supply drive to benefit Buffalo school children.

Applications are being accepted through Oct. 2 for the state Civil Service exam being held on Nov. 16 for persons interested in becoming police officers with New York State University Police.

Morton Lane Federal Credit Union, UB’s official credit union for more than 40 years, has opened a second office on the North Campus in the Charles B. Sears Law Library, 218 O’Brian Hall.

UB faculty and staff are encouraged to sign up for the Eat Well Live Well Challenge.

Faculty and staff members looking to get some exercise on their lunch break can take part in the campus walking program sponsored by Wellness & Work/Life Balance.

Graduate Enrollment Management Services (GEMS) is reaching out to the UB community of faculty and staff to take advantage of the wide spectrum of tuition-free courses leading to graduate and professional degrees.

The Office of the Provost is reminding the UB community that under federal and New York State law, reasonable accommodation must be made for any student who is unable to attend a regularly scheduled class or exam because of religious observance.

UB Libraries has made changes to the Oscar A. Silverman Library in Capen Hall.