The UB Women’s Club will hold its annual dinner and wine pairing to raise money for the Grace Capen scholarship on Feb. 1 at the Fairdale Banquet Center, 672 Wehrle Drive, Amherst.
The UB Center for Advanced Technology in Big Data and Health Sciences (UB CAT) is seeking proposals from faculty to fund collaborative projects with industry that are centered on big data and health sciences.
Evolutionary anthropologist and geneticist Jenny Tung, a 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner, will be the keynote speaker at the 15th Biological Sciences Research Symposium at UB. The fellowship is often referred to as the MacArthur “genius grant.”
As work ramps up on One World Café, an internationally themed food court being built between Capen and Norton halls on the North Campus, access to interior and exterior areas around the construction site will be restricted, beginning Jan. 24.
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 Jan. 29.
Yusef Salaam, criminal justice advocate and member of the Central Park Five, will present UB’s 44th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration keynote address on Feb. 24.
Mikhail V. Pletnikov has been named professor and chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present a free screening on Feb. 5 of “Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America,” an award-winning, feature-length documentary about an undocumented queer activist fighting for equality.