Need to Know

How to transform the neighborhoods of Buffalo’s Black East Side will be the focus of a symposium on Feb. 26.

The role of artificial intelligence in improving all aspects of health care is the theme of a research symposium to be held from 1:30-6 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

UB faculty member and baritone Jaman Dunn-Danger will perform a program of choral music from noted operas in a concert on Feb. 21 at UB.

Faculty, staff and students are invited to gather on campus to view the total solar eclipse, a rare astronomic event that will occur in Western New York at about 3:18 p.m. on April 8 .

UB is one of eight SUNY institutions that will share $4 million in funding in the second round of New York State’s Offshore Wind Training Institute grants.

UB has launched the search for the university’s next vice president and chief information officer.

The Office of International Education offers a variety of grants to support global research of faculty and graduate students.

The importance of free speech and its implications will be the focus of an event on Feb. 22 sponsored by the Office of Inclusive Excellence.

When disaster threatens all of humanity, which professor will make the cut to join the survivors?

Internationally acclaimed jazz singer, composer and visual artist Cécile McLorin Salvant, whose passion for storytelling through music has captivated audiences, will perform for the first time in Buffalo in more than nine years at a concert at UB on Feb. 9.