James Joyce with Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, 1922. A landmark exhibition of rarely seen items from the Joyce Collection drew more than a thousand visitors to the UB Anderson Gallery this summer.
Photographer unknown. Image courtesy UB Poetry Collection
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When Flight 3407 fell in Clarence, UB alumni were among legions of Western New Yorkers ready to help
Arts and health-care collaboration brings comfort and imagination to those who are hospitalized
Innovative research into an intractable illness offers hope and encouragement to many
The university is moving forward with a dramatic physical transformation unseen since the 1970s
Participants in first coast-to-coast symposium view the entertainment capital from the inside
Christie’s expert oversees auction of Lincoln manuscript
Scholars at UB tap goodwill for First Lady in book project
Animation artist accepts sacrifices to pursue Hollywood dream
 
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An article in the New York Times looks at the advantages and disadvantages SUNY schools have encountered as they upgrade their athletic programs to compete with other major public institutions at the Division I level. UB is mentioned as having led the way to Division I in 1991 and the football team played a bowl game for the first time in January, but the path has not been as smooth for other SUNY campuses. The article quotes former UB president William H. Greiner and UB athletic director Warde Manuel.
UB's Doug Levere, photographer in University Communications, is quoted in a New York Times article about the changing urban landscape of New York City.
An article in USA Today about efforts in Western New York to downsize local governments and the wave of national frustration over big government that was illustrated this year by raucous town-hall style meeting over health care reports a study by UB's Regional Institute concluded that if every municipality in Erie County cut two legislators, the savings would be "negligible," less than $4 per person a year in most cases. The article quotes Kathryn Foster, director of the Regional Institute.