New Hire Checklist

A professional portrait makes your first positive impression on individuals we want to recruit to our school, helping them familiarize themselves with you before they come to campus for an interview or schedule an appointment at your office.

You can have your faculty portrait taken, for free, at the academic media center, located in room 260J of Squire Hall.

Contact Cass McAllister with your availability to schedule an appointment.

Your online faculty profile is the authoritative source for media as well as prospective students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows. Data you enter into the UB Profile database completes your profile on the School of Dental Medicine's website.

Features in UB Profile also automatically create CVs that meet the school’s requirements for promotion and tenure.

Your faculty profile includes a biographical sketch of up to 300 words. Read through these guidelines and examples to create a professional summary that coordinates your distinctive expertise with the rest of your information in UB Profile:

Faculty and staff biographies are shared with the SDM community when someone new joins our team. Bios should be no longer than 200 words and submitted within 14 days of the employee start date. Please read the guidelines and click the link below to complete the form. 

• Who was hired?
  • Provide employee name, degrees, experience, and professional background
  • Provide a photo or have one taken at the media center

• What were they hired to do?
  • Provide job title and job duties

• Where is their office? What department/office are they working in?

• How can they be contacted?
  • Provide a phone number and buffalo.edu email

When you have completed your faculty profile by entering data into UB Profile, create a professional signature block that includes hyperlinks to important information about you, your department, and the school.  

Key announcements, messages from the dean, and the school newsletter come to your UB email address. Many university and school services, including UB Information Technology and the Office of Communications, can only respond to messages that originate from your UB email account. Use it consistently, and if you have other email accounts, check your UB email daily.

As a new faculty member, you will need to claim your UBITName (username) to gain access to UB IT services. You will need to verify your identity and provide answers to questions to be used in case you need to reset your password.

The school’s URL is https://dental.buffalo.edu/. Bookmark it and make it your home page so that you can keep abreast of school news and events.

We want to tell stories about your work to the outside world. Let the Office of Communications know whenever you have news.  

You have at your fingertips resources branded for the School of Dental Medicine and UB—e.g., PowerPoint and poster templates, business cards and stationery.