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.

The Professional Staff Senate’s Sustainable Living Committee is sponsoring a free clothing and household electronics recycling event April 25 at the Center for Tomorrow.

UB’s Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences has partnered with the University of the West Indies (UWI) to launch several research centers and networks to advance the study of infectious and non-infectious diseases in the Caribbean.

The Center for Educational Innovation is presenting a workshop designed to help faculty improve their teaching style to better motivate students.

The LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association will host a Brown Bag Conversation with representatives of Evergreen Health and the Pride Center of WNY at noon April 10 in the Intercultural and Diversity Center, 240 Student Union, North Campus.

The legal, social, economic and technical implications for data use and data privacy, particularly within the context of higher education, is the topic of a Date Privacy Forum being held April 8 on the North Campus.