Need to Know

Hillel of Buffalo has announced the appointment of Jeff Clark as executive director of the organization that supports 1,500 Jewish students at UB, SUNY Buffalo State University and other local campuses.

Volunteers from UB, PS #37 Futures Academy and the community will be participating in the 21st annual Fruit Belt Clean-a-Thon, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 5. The event is sponsored by the UB Center for Urban Studies, PS #37 Futures Academy, the Fruit Belt Coalition and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Spring into Art, taking place at the Center for the Arts on May 2, allows visitors to enjoy live performances and participate in interactive, art-making stations.

Members of the UB community can sign up to be organ donors at an organ donor registry drive on April 19 organized by Campus Health Educators in UB’s Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP).

Derek Greenfield, a nationally recognized speaker, educator and activist committed to inclusive excellence and positive change, will deliver the keynote at this year’s Inclusive Excellence Summit on May 4 in the Student Union.

UB’s Alumni and Reunion Weekend, set for June 2-4, offers plenty of opportunities for all alumni to come back to campus and connect with each other.

Kavita Radhakrishnan, associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, will give the School of Nursing’s 26th Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture on April 21.

It’s now officially spring, and time to get your bicycle road-ready with a free tuneup.

Global health researchers will gather at UB on April 14 to discuss a wide range of women’s health issues at the 12th Annual Global Health Day Symposium.

As Buffalo prepares to acknowledge the first anniversary of the May 14 massacre, the School of Social Work will host a webinar on Black racial trauma. The event will be a moment of learning and reflection to denote the ongoing existence of racial trauma in the lives of Black people.