The School of Dental Medicine has been ranked among the top in the United States and the world, according to the 2023 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.

The Health Insurance Option Transfer Period for state employees, during which workers can change their health insurance carrier, voluntarily cancel coverage or change from family to individual coverage, runs through Dec. 29.

The Community Health Equity Research Institute is launching its first-ever pilot funding program to address health equities and adverse social determinants of health. The institute will fund two projects with a maximum budget of $40,000 each.

Jennifer A. Surtees, professor of biochemistry, has been named associate dean for undergraduate education and STEM outreach at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

Nominations are now open for the 2024 UB Alumni Achievement Awards. Each year, UB graduates are selected for these prestigious awards based on their outstanding contributions, work and service to the university and to their communities. Awardees will be recognized at a celebratory event during Homecoming 2024 in October.

Jinjun Xiong was early in his career, working on AI technology at IBM, when the company’s Watson computer famously beat the top human players on “Jeopardy!” in 2011.

Gene Morse, SUNY Distinguished Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been appointed executive director of the State University of New York-University of the West Indies Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development.

Local and national experts will take a deep dive into what the future of health care looks like at a panel discussion at UB on Nov. 29.

Lee Melvin, who has led UB’s enrollment efforts for the past decade, is retiring from the university at the end of the year.

Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review have again named UB one of the country’s top schools for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies.