Not sure where to start with your new fitness or wellness routine? Look no further than Studio Sweat onDemand, the free virtual fitness and wellness platform from Well-U. Claim your free membership and browse the variety of classes available. Email Well-U with questions.

Have quick questions about the University’s retirement program, or need help enrolling online? Stop by the Sarah Flaum Atrium in the Health Sciences Campus on Thursday, May 14, from 1:30 to 3:30 pm, where a TIAA representative will be available to chat.

This interdisciplinary, full-day program highlights emerging advances in gastroenterology and hepatology. Through expert-led sessions and panel discussions, participants will gain practical insights to enhance clinical decision-making and patient outcomes. Learn more and register to attend on Saturday, May 30, from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The sixth annual Western New York and Finger Lakes Nursing Research Symposium, a collaboration between Wilmot Cancer Institute and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, is slated for Friday, September 25. Nurses are invited to submit abstracts highlighting nursing research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement by Monday, May 11. Learn more and submit an abstract.

Join the Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence on Tuesday, May 12, from 11 to 11:50 a.m. in Sloan Auditorium for the talk “Integrating Computational Social Science and Time Series: Evidence From COVID-19 Image Sentiment Classification in the US News Media,” with Andrew Philips, an associate professor and the Henry W. Ehrmann Professor in Law and Jurisprudence in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Wilmot Cancer Institute’s Shared Resources hosts a lunch-and-learn seminar with the Genomics Shared Resource Team on Tuesday, May 12, at noon in the Lower Adolph Auditorium (1-7619), Health Sciences Campus. Students, staff, postdocs, and PIs are encouraged to attend. Lunch will be provided. Get the details and register.

The Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics and the Department of Psychiatry once again support the Reel Mind Film Series, featuring film screenings and discussions focused on memory, identity, and care as it relates to dementia.

The Clinical and Translational Science Institute hosts the new Health Research website, which serves as a public-facing hub to link community members with information on research studies.

Yahoo News, May 5

Realistically, the fight to include Pluto is largely about semantics. Adam Frank, the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, wrote in Forbes that critics should “celebrate, not cry” about Pluto’s fate. Rather than a demotion, Frank argues, Pluto’s dwarf planet title was a triumphant announcement that scientists had expanded their understanding of the universe.