Need to Know

UB faculty, staff and students are encouraged to use an alternative method of transportation to get to campus on Green Your Commute and Bike to Work Day on May 17 on the North and South campuses.

The controversial issue of traffic congestion pricing in New York City is the topic of the inaugural Jim and Matthew Scarpati Honorary Applied Economics Conference being held on May 16.

The second annual Gift to the Community Concert celebrating the strength and musical diversity of the Buffalo community will take place at 3 p.m. May 12 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.

Volunteers are being sought for the 24th annual Fruit Belt Clean-a-Thon, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 24. 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.

UB employees are invited to register for the UB True Blue team at the 42nd J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge Buffalo on June 13. The race begins at 6:25 p.m. in Delaware Park.

During the 2024 tax season, 97 IRS-certified accounting students from the School of Management brought nearly $307,000 back into the Buffalo community through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.

A panel discussion on artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship will be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. May 7 in 340 Student Union on the North Campus.

“Spring into Art,” the annual showcase spotlighting the various visual and performing arts created in the Center for the Arts, take place on April 30 throughout the North Campus facility.

A team of assessors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) will visit UB on May 12 as part of the UB Police Department’s (UPD) voluntary effort to gain its third successive accreditation from the IACLEA.

Six-time Grammy-nominated virtuosic pianist Yefim Bronfman will perform a program “celebrating Beethoven’s legacy” May 1 at UB.