Need to Know

Published June 17, 2025

  • Communities of Care Symposium set
    3/25/25
    Community members, artists, activists and scholars interested in discussing care, disability and communities will gather in Buffalo on April 24-25 for the Communities of Care Symposium 2025.
  • Nickerson named 2025 AERA fellow
    3/25/25
    Amanda Nickerson, SUNY Distinguished Professor and director of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention, has been named a 2025 fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
  • UB hosts 2025 Buffalo International Guitar Festival
    3/24/25
    The Buffalo International Guitar Festival is set to return UB March 28–30, hosted in collaboration with Guitar Reach Buffalo.
  • Chiquet named chair of pediatric and community dentistry
    3/21/25
    Brett T. Chiquet has been named professor and chair of the Department of Pediatric and Community Dentistry at the School of Dental Medicine, effective March 27.
  • Verona Quartet to resume Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle
    3/19/25
    This season’s Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle resumes on March 27 with a performance by the internationally acclaimed Verona Quartet.
  • 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.