The UB Women’s Club will hold its annual dinner and wine pairing to raise money for student scholarships on Feb. 2 at the Fairdale Banquet Center, 672 Wehrle Drive, Amherst.

Because of the severe weather forecast for Jan. 5, the gravesite commemoration celebrating the 218th anniversary of the birth of Millard Fillmore, UB’s first chancellor and 13th president of the United States, scheduled to be held at 10 a.m. in Forest Lawn Cemetery, will be shortened to a brief wreath presentation ceremony outdoors, featuring representatives from the White House, Fillmore legacy organizations and Forest Lawn.

UB faculty and staff can help overcome a critical blood shortage due to the recent severe winter weather by taking part in Red Cross blood drives being held this month on the North and South campuses.

The School of Public Health and Health Professions has a new chair in the Department of Rehabilitation Science.

A multi-year project to dramatically improve Wi-Fi on UB’s three campuses is now complete, and students, faculty and staff should notice better speed and coverage.    

There’s a new chair in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning.

Faculty and staff can buy one ticket to a Department of Music concert this spring and receive one ticket free as part of a special ticket promotion on Feb. 2.

Athletics Director Allen Greene is leaving UB to lead the athletics program at Auburn University.

Want to get in better shape and have more strength, energy and stamina?

UB employees can learn the basics of ADHD — attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder — in a free session on Feb. 5 presented by UB’s Employee Assistance Program.

Members of the UB community are invited to explore the design and development of the university’s new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building with a key member of the team that designed the state-of-the-art facility.

“The Laramie Project,” a play about the reaction of residents of Laramie, Wyoming, to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, will be presented at UB next month as part of the Department of Theatre and Dance’s Student-Directed Series.

Full and part-time UB faculty and staff represented by UUP and CSEA, or who are paid through the UB Foundation or Research Foundation, and are now working, or will be working, in the new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus can receive a free NFTA transit pass under the provisions of a new memorandum of agreement between UB and the unions.

UB is the hottest men’s basketball team in the Mid-American Conference, and faculty and staff have the chance to see the 7-0 Bulls this weekend at a special price.

Kathy Twist, a senior administrator in UB’s athletics department, will serve as interim director of athletics beginning Jan. 29, President Satish K. Tripathi announced today.

Influenza is widespread in New York State and Erie County, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the New York State Department of Health. And numerous news agencies have reported that some of the influenza strains in circulation right now are particularly severe.

Chris Bartolomei, assistant chief of university police since 2013, has been appointed acting chief of police.