Need to Know

Published April 2, 2025

  • Wactawski-Wende honored with Go Red for Women award
    3/18/25
    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.
  • Nominations sought for SLICE awards
    3/18/25
    UB Sustainability is now accepting nominations for the annual UB SLICE (Sustainability Leadership, Innovation and Collaborate Engagement) awards.
  • Experts to speak at UB on the future of AI in health care
    3/17/25
    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.”
  • UB marks 10 years of stepping
    3/14/25
    Time flies when you’re having fun, and the annual UB Step Challenge is the healthiest fun you can have this April.
  • Misinformation topic of PSS lecture
    3/14/25
    Misinformation is nothing new. For as long as humans have communicated, they’ve also manipulated information and deceived others to gain power. Nevertheless, scholars, journalists and pundits have expressed a concern about humanity entering a new “post-truth” era, one driven by the collapse of truth and political turmoil.
  • UB to host Science Exploration Day
    3/13/25
    Hundreds of high school students from across Western New York will be on the North Campus on March 19 for Science Exploration Day, a daylong program of workshops, lectures and laboratory tours.
  • Safe Schools Initiative returns to UB
    3/12/25
    Educators, law enforcement, first-responders, mental health professionals and other school stakeholders including parents and guardians are invited to attend the 21st Annual Safe Schools Initiative Seminar to help them be proactive in their violence-protection efforts. 
  • Granfield to step down as vice provost for faculty affairs
    3/10/25
    Robert Granfield will step down as vice provost for faculty affairs this summer and return to his faculty role in the Department of Sociology and Criminology.
  • Smith named chair of psychiatry
    3/5/25
    Beth A. Smith has been appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, effective March 1.
  • Slee Sinfonietta to premiere works by UB composers
    3/4/25
    The Slee Sinfonietta, UB’s professional chamber orchestra in residence, will continue its mission of supporting the work of students in UB’s PhD program in composition with a concert of work by four students composed for the Sinfonietta.