UB staff and domestic students are being recruited to serve as cultural partners for newly arrived international students during the fall 2015 semester. Participants in the International Student Mentoring Program need not know about other cultures, speak other languages or have traveled overseas.
As part of CEPA Gallery's summer-long celebration of the late legendary UB filmmaker Hollis Frampton, CEPA and Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center are sponsoring a panel discussion and pop-up exhibition exploring Frampton’s pioneering computer work at UB.
Engineering doesn’t benefit humanity. There are no women in engineering. These common misconceptions and more propelled UB undergraduates Katie Czerniejewski, Julie Fetzer and Dana Voll to launch the university’s first engineering summer camp for high school girls.
Jean S. Hamlin, a longtime piano teacher who was on the UB music department staff for more than 30 years, died Aug. 7 in Elderwood at Williamsville. She was 95.
BullsEye, Career Service’s password-protected, online, career office system, is available to faculty and staff who want to help students make informed decisions about job and internship opportunities, and employment and career goals.
UB faculty and staff may be eligible to take part in NYS-Ride, a program that allows state employees to pay for certain work-related transportation expenses — including mass transit — on a pre-tax basis.
The UB Professional Staff Senate will present the seventh annual Sustainable Living Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Student Union. This free event will feature dozens of vendors offering ways to green your homes, yards and offices, while reducing your environmental footprint.
The UB Bulls open the 2015 football season, their first under new head coach Lance Leipold, at home against Albany on Sept. 5. Fans attending the game are encouraged to wear blue to the game as part of Operation Blueout.
The Professional Staff Senate Social Committee is presenting its sixth annual potluck barbecue luncheon on Aug. 24. The event will take place from noon to 1 p.m. at the picnic area next to the pond behind Greiner Hall on UB's North Campus (rain location: 101 Baldy Hall). Hamburgers and hot dogs will be provided. Attendees should RSVP by Aug. 21.
UB’s Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR) has refreshed its signature mark to more accurately communicate its collaborative roles both within UB and the Western New York economy.
Jessica Castner, PhD, assistant professor of nursing, and Laurie Connors, PhD, clinical assistant professor of nursing, graduated from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Summer Genetics Institute.
The UB Child Care Center will again be offering its after school and vacation club programs this academic year. The programs are available for members of the UB community who have children between the ages of 5 and 12.
More than 100 students will take their first, public step toward becoming pharmacists today when they participate in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences’ Annual White Coat Ceremony.
A Title IX panel discussion on campus sexual assault prevention, reporting and response will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 9 in 330 Student Union, North Campus.
The Buffalo Center Chapter of United University Professions, the union representing UB faculty and professional staff, will hold its 2015 membership dinner and boat cruise Sept. 24 aboard the Miss Buffalo.
“Doorhanger” kits containing safety reminders and tips on how to be a good neighbor were distributed Wednesday to more than 2,300 homes surrounding the South Campus.