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  • UB alert

    UB alert: Sign up for emergency text messages/emails

    To subscribe to receive text messages and/or emails about campus emergencies, weather-related closings or any other urgent campus information that you’ll need to know about, visit http://emergency.buffalo.edu.

    Any member of the UB community with an @buffalo.edu email address—your UBITName plus @buffalo.edu—can subscribe.

    You do not need to register again if you have done so previously. If your mobile number has changed since you registered, you will need to visit the Web site and edit your account to include your new number.

    Frequently asked questions about the text messaging email service are answered on the Web site.

    Anyone needing assistance should contact cit-helpdesk@buffalo.edu.

  • Margarita L. Dubocovich

    Dubocovich named chair of pharmacology and toxicology

    Margarita L. Dubocovich, an internationally recognized expert in molecular pharmacology and drug discovery, has been named chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

    Dubocovich previously was professor of molecular pharmacology and biological chemistry, and psychiatry and behavioral science at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She directed Northwestern’s Collaborative Learning and Integrated Mentoring in the Bioscience Program (CLIMB), a program she plans to replicate at UB. CLIMB aims to increase student diversity in biomedical and behavioral research by broadening opportunities to earn doctoral degrees, and to increase the number of students from diverse backgrounds holding leadership positions in academic, research and administrative areas.

  • Garage sale

    Garage sale to benefit SEFA

    The Health Sciences Library will hold its second annual garage sale to benefit UB’s Campaign for the Community from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sept. 5 and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 6 in the Health Sciences Library, Abbott Hall, South Campus.

    Items for sale include furniture, kitchen and household goods, linens, jewelry, electronics and decorative and holiday items.

    Donated items are still being accepted and can be brought to the circulation desk in the Health Sciences Library. Larger items can be brought to the side delivery door.

    For further information, contact Lori Widzinski at 829-3900, ext. 138, or widz@buffalo.edu.

  • Lyle Ashton Harris photo

    Harris’ photos to be displayed

    Celebrated photographer Lyle Ashton Harris’ first major survey exhibition spanning 20 years of his career will open in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, North Campus, with a public reception at 5 p.m. Sept. 4.

    The installation, which will be free and open to the public, will be on view through Oct. 18.

    Harris also will give a lecture from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sept. 15 in the CFA Screening Room, 112 CFA, as part of the Department of Visual Studies’ Speakers Series.

    The exhibition, entitled “Lyle Ashton Harris Blow Up,” will debut new images inspired by Harris’ recent experiences in West Africa.

    Harris first gained critical notice for his theatrical black-and-white self-portraits, in which he examined racial and gender identity using the body as socio-psychological metaphor. He since has moved from the self-as-subject to a broader interest in the anthropology of images and the impact of globalization.