Need to Know

Join UB's Office of Global Health Initiatives for the 14th annual Global Health Day Symposium: Environmental Concerns and Health Impacts in Global and Local Communities on April 11.

Becker’s Hospital Review has named Kara M. Kelly, chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and chair of the Department of Pediatric Oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, to its list of top leaders in health care.

Community members, artists, activists and scholars interested in discussing care, disability and communities will gather in Buffalo on April 24-25 for the Communities of Care Symposium 2025.

Amanda Nickerson, SUNY Distinguished Professor and director of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention, has been named a 2025 fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

The Buffalo International Guitar Festival is set to return UB March 28–30, hosted in collaboration with Guitar Reach Buffalo.

The festival is a community-oriented event that focuses on cultural enrichment and educational opportunities for guitarists of all ages in the Buffalo community and beyond. After the success of the inaugural edition last year, the festival returns to the Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences, and the Center for the Arts on the North Campus. The event highlights the existing excellence of musical culture through the guitar in Western New York and attracts guests and participants nationally and internationally.

Brett T. Chiquet has been named professor and chair of the Department of Pediatric and Community Dentistry at the School of Dental Medicine, effective March 27.

This season’s Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle resumes on March 27 with a performance by the internationally acclaimed Verona Quartet.

Jean Wactawski-Wende, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions, has received the inaugural Go Red for Women Community Leadership Award from the American Heart Association (AHA). Go Red for Women celebrated its 21st anniversary this year, pushing forward its mission of improving women’s cardiovascular health at every age, stage and season of life.

UB Sustainability is now accepting nominations for the annual UB SLICE (Sustainability Leadership, Innovation and Collaborate Engagement) awards.

The School of Management will host a free, in-depth discussion on how artificial intelligence is transforming the business of health care at 5:30 p.m. April 2 in the 225 Natural Sciences Complex, North Campus. Presented by the school’s Helen and Oscar Sufrin Lectureship in Accounting, the talk, which is free and open to the public, is titled “AI in the Business of Health Care: Smarter Data, Better Decisions.”