Turning data into action will be the theme of this year’s Assessment Day, an annual event designed to help faculty, staff and administrators develop assessment strategies to improve life and learning on campus.
Christine Ann Botosan, a Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) member, will discuss “The Conceptual Framework and FASB’s Agenda” during a talk on Oct. 4 at UB.
UB’s Department of Music will open its 2018-19 concert season on Wednesday with its resident chamber ensemble Slee Sinfonietta performing Copeland and Berio. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
Na He, dean of the School of Public Health at Fudan University in Shanghai and an expert on the AIDS epidemic in China, will deliver the third annual Richard V. Lee Lecture on Oct. 5.
UB faculty can learn about the latest instructional technology and security standards at several town halls for faculty being presented next month by UBIT.
UB’s award-winning GRoW Home, which has been fully reconstructed on the South Campus, is reopening to the public as a demonstration project in low-energy living.
The UB Libraries recently received three dozen books detailing the history and culture of India from Sandeep Chakravorty, Consul General of India in New York.
Celebrate the power of words and the freedom to read with the UB Libraries during Banned Books Week, a national celebration of open access to information — even material that some consider to be unorthodox or unpopular.
John William Ellison, associate professor emeritus of information and library studies and a pioneer in the field of distance learning, died Sept. 11 in hospice care in Charlotte, N.C., after a three-month battle with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. He was 76.
The search for UB’s next chief of police has begun and the search committee is seeking input from members of the university community on their interests and priorities for the search.
President Satish K. Tripathi will deliver his seventh State of the University address at 11 a.m. Oct. 12 in the Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
Eligible employees represented by United University Professions can now enroll in the Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP) for the remainder 2018 to exchange previously accrued vacation and/or personal leave for a credit to be applied toward the employee share of their New York State Health Insurance Program premiums.
Town hall sessions have been scheduled for the North and South campuses for UB’s new “Shop Blue” eProcurement system that aims to greatly reduce both the procurement process and improve delivery time.
All UB faculty and staff are invited to attend the LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association’s Fall Semester Welcome Reception and General Membership Meeting on Oct. 3 in 145 Student Union, North Campus.
Retired UB music professor and pianist Stephen Manes will make his 11th consecutive appearance at UB since his retirement in 2007 when he takes the stage on Oct. 5 for a concert of the works of Bach, Bartok, Beethoven and Schumann.
The Office of Inclusive Excellence is celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Oct. 8 with a special screening of a new documentary that tells the stories of indigenous peoples who are standing against industries that threaten their physical, spiritual, economic and cultural lives.
