Date & Time: Friday, April 25, 2025, 12:00 - 2:00pm
Location: 210 Student Union, Landmark Room, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us on Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:00pm for lunch and a discussion on Dr. Nathan H. Lents' book The Sexual Evolution. In The Sexual Evolution, Lents takes readers on a journey through the animal world, from insects to apes, revealing what the incredible array of sexual diversity can teach us about our own diverse beauty. Nature, it turns out, has made a lot of space for diverse genders and sexual behaviors. And why? Because when it comes to evolution—diversity wins. This is not just a political or social message, instead it’s a biological reality revealed through careful scientific study.
For more information, please visit our . Space is limited,
Date & Time: Wednesdays, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, through May 7, 2025
Location: 240 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open event
This drop-in group is committed to providing an affirming space for BIPOC students to reflect on their experiences at a Predominately White Institution. In this group, we recognize the unique experiences of BIPOC students and aim to foster a community for students to give voice to their experiences, gain support, and develop healthy coping strategies. Topics explored in this group include but are not limited to navigating microaggressions, feelings of isolation, imposter syndrome, being first generation American, family/social relationships, and maintaining healthy self-care in the current socio-political climate.
These BIPOC Drop-In groups will take place weekly every Wednesday in 240 Student Union, unless otherwise stated.
For more information on how to join, please email Frankie Kraft, frankie@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by: Counseling Services and Intercultural and Diversity Center
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: UB Student Union Theater
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us for a thought provoking, curiosity filled conversation about the experiences of some UB students. A part of the “Did you Know? Dean of Student Series.”
Free refreshments and beverages from Qamaria Yemeni Coffee. All are welcome!
Sponsored by: the Dean of Students Office, Student Engagement, Intercultural Diversity Center, and theOffice of Inclusive Excellence.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Clemens 6th Floor, Food Sovereignty Kitchen
Intended Audience: Open Event
Professional development workshop to collectively review our CVs, discuss how we might frame the trickier parts of being an academic with relational accountabilities to Indigenous place—both within and beyond our own home nations.
Speakers: Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca), Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies; Kevin Lee (Chamoru), Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies
Reach out to leekl@buffalo.edu for more information.
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Date & Time: Multiple Dates
Location: Hyatt Regency Buffalo, 2 Fountain Plaza, Buffalo, NY 14020
Intended Audience: Open Event
We invite people who are interested in discussing care, disability, and communities from all backgrounds, including but not limited to, scholarship, activism, art. While we are grounded in critical disability studies, we are interested in the broader range of approaches to care and disability.
The Communities of Care symposium features presentations by community members, artists, activists, and scholars. The symposium brings together people who are interested in discussing care, disability, and communities from all backgrounds, including but not limited to, scholarship, activism, art. While the Communities of Care project is grounded in critical disability studies, we are interested in the broader range of approaches to care and disability.
The event is free to attend, but advance registration is required. Register for the symposium by April 1 2025, using the form,
Sponsored by: the , , , and the .
Date & Time: Monday, April 28, 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Queer POC have always faced challenges in navigating their gender and sexuality within their communities. How do Asian communities celebrate or repress queerness? How do we reconcile our culture with our LGBTQ+ identities? For more information or to register, please visit the
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center, in collaboration with Asia Research Institute.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Kick off Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with our monthly mixer. This event aims to connect students, faculty, and staff across campus. We will celebrate AAPI Month through cultural music, food, and fun activities. For more information or to register, please visit the
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 1, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
The film tells the story of Ponyo, a goldfish who escapes from the ocean and is helped by a five-year-old human boy, Sōsuke, after she is washed ashore while trapped in a glass jar. As they bond with each other, Ponyo desires to become a human girl, against the devastating circumstances brought about by her acquisition and use of magic.
For more information or to register, please visit the .
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Friday, May 2, 2025, 11:00 am – 11:50 am
Location: Clemens Hall 6th Floor, Social Room
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join the IDS 101: Intro to Indigenous Studies as we teach Social Dances, meanings and protocols.
Speaker: Aaron VanEvery, Cayuga Nation, Wolf Clan, Community Outreach Coordinator, Indigenous@UB HUB.
Register by sending an email to indigenous-studies@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by: .
Date & Time: Multiple dates and times, see more details below
Location: G26 Farber Hall, South Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
CLIMB with fellow faculty and students as we learn why and how to implement changes related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our education, research, and clinical practice!
Each year we invite a leader in our field to share about their work and efforts to advance DEIB. The schedule is designed to provide faculty and students with time to engage with our speaker.
Sponsored by: Department of Communicative Disorders and Science
Date & Time: Saturday, May 3, 2025, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Harriman Hall Ballroom, South Campus
Intended Audience: Public
Come celebrate our graduates while enjoying some food and social dancing. No registration required.
Sponsored by: and
Date & Time: Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:30pm
Location: Buffalo Room, Capen 10
Intended Audience: Open Event
Lecturer: Dr. Ayesha Khurshid, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State University
Title: Education, Gender, and Muslim Womanhood: Ethnographies of a Punjabi Muslim Community from Pakistan and a Maya Muslim Community from Mexico
Muslim womanhood continues to be an ideological battleground for different political, social, and religious movements not only in Muslim countries but also in different Western contexts. The educational level of Muslim women is often mobilized as a measure to determine the “progress” of Muslim communities. This presentation examines how Muslim women from two different geographical, national, and cultural sites, a rural Punjabi Muslim community in Pakistan and an Indigenous Maya Muslim community in Mexico, make sense of and perform what it means to be educated Muslim women in their specific contexts. Though focusing on lived experiences, it highlights how the hybridity of the cultural and Islamic identities of these two groups of women, as well as their connections with their environment, shape the nature, value, and relevance of education for them. This presentation invites educational scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to explore the conceptual and methodological approaches, especially decolonizing methodologies, needed to engage with the multidimensional and context-specific identities of people who often become subjects of national and international educational reforms.
To register, please .
Sponsored by: the and the
Date & Time: Monday, May 5, 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Mental health is a taboo topic for AAPIDA communities, especially as generational trauma persists in many families. How can we de-stigmatize mental health struggles rooted in our culture and histories? Join us in this discussion on intergenerational trauma.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center, in collaboration with Counseling Services.
Date & Time: Monday, May 5, 2025, 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Let's connect with one another as we finish this spring semester strong. These study spaces are designed to provide safe, community spaces, with lots of snacks for you to study. So, grab your squad and join us for our end of semester study sessions! For more information or to register, please visit the
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center
Date & Time: Friday, May 9, 2025, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: UB North Campus, Center for the Arts Drama Theater
Intended Audience: Open Event
The Lavender Ceremony and Reception welcomes all graduating members of the UB LGBTQ+ Community from all majors, all levels of education, in various programs and from various backgrounds.
Recognizing the challenges many LGBTQ+ students face on their journey to graduation, the Lavender ceremony provides the opportunity for graduating students, family, friends, faculty, administrators, peers, allies, and supporters to embrace each student as they celebrate graduating at UB. During the Lavender ceremony, graduates receive a rainbow tassel, lavender plant, and a lavender UB pin.
For more information or to register, please visit the Student Life Website.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 15, 2025, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: UB North Campus, Center for the Arts
Intended Audience: Open Event
At the conclusion of each academic year, the Intercultural and Diversity Center hosts the ALANA (African, Latinx, Asian, and Native American) Celebration of Achievement, a pre-commencement ceremony honoring the achievements of those students who have successfully completed an undergraduate or graduate/professional degree from the University at Buffalo.
The ALANA celebration is an intimate ceremony open to all students, centering around the shared experiences of historically racially underrepresented cultures and includes a Kente Stole to be worn during the ceremony.
For more information or to register, please visit the Student Life Website.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
The Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC) is committed to supporting all students on campus. By focusing on personal identity, advocacy and other critical issues that are facing society today, the IDC helps students broaden their perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of our ever-changing world. To find out more about their upcoming events, visit the IDC Events Calendar.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center
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Date & Time: Submit anytime
Intended Audience: UB Students, Faculty and Staff
The University Archives is launching a project to encourage students, faculty and staff to document their personal experiences during the COVID-19 outbreak and contribute them to the University Archives. Students have been impacted by great change to their learning environments, living situations, employment, and social connections. Faculty have adapted the ways in which they deliver course materials and interact with students. Staff have adjusted to changes in their work environments, both at home and on campus, all while coping with momentous change in daily routines, family life, and personal health and safety. By collecting and preserving these perspectives the University Archives supports the research mission of the university, allowing future students, researchers, and scholars to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, an undoubtedly transformative event in the history of student life and the academic experience at UB. Visit webpage for more information.
Sponsored by: University Libraries
These workshops were led by Dr. Anne Etgen, Professor Emerita in the Department of Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and nationally recognized expert in recruiting and retaining diverse faculty. We encourage this resource for all Department Chairs and faculty who plan to serve on search committees. Below are descriptions of the three workshops. to view them on UB Edge.
Sponsored by: the Office of Inclusive Excellence
Presents evidence that workforce diversity is a driving force for excellence and innovation, and discusses factors that contribute to limiting diversity, including implicit or unconscious bias. Finally, describes evidence-based strategies that can overcome the bias in the faculty search process. to view on UB Edge.
Outlines strategies that facilitate the academic success, promotion and retention of faculty. Topics discussed include strong mentoring programs, faculty cluster hiring (cohort model), activities and resources to reduce isolation, increase community building and networking, and to foster career, research, and professional advancement. to view on UB Edge.
Discusses the role of departmental and institutional climate as a barrier to achieving faculty diversity. Climate comprises people’s shared perception of the quality, fairness and inclusivity of the environment in which they work. Improving departmental and institutional climate, with clear signals from leadership that diversity, equity and inclusion are core values, can enhance the work environment for all members of the academic community. to view on UB Edge.