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Discovering James Joyce
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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A moment in time
When Flight 3407 fell in Clarence, UB alumni were among legions of Western New Yorkers ready to help
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The healing arts
Arts and health-care collaboration brings comfort and imagination to those who are hospitalized
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Getting help where it’s needed
Innovative research into an intractable illness offers hope and encouragement to many
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Construction projects mirror UB
2020 progressThe university is moving forward with a dramatic physical transformation unseen since the 1970s
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UB goes Hollywood
Participants in first coast-to-coast symposium view the entertainment capital from the inside
Profiles
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Chris Coover, BA ’73
Christie’s expert oversees auction of Lincoln manuscript
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Peggy Brooks-Bertram,
PhD ’02 & Barbara Seals
Nevergold, PhD ’86 & EdM ’74Scholars at UB tap goodwill for First Lady in book project
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Michaelangelo Rocco, BFA ’01
Animation artist accepts sacrifices to pursue Hollywood dream
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UB in the News
USA Today interviews UB accounting professor on Eastman Kodak's bankruptcy filing
An article in USA Today on Eastman Kodak?s bankruptcy filing, which has caused huge cuts to pay, benefits and insurance coverage for retirees and employees, quotes Martha Salzman, assistant professor of accounting and law in the UB School of Management.
NPR interviews UB professor on Pres. Obama?s plan to reduce gun violence
Steven Dubovsky, chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was interviewed live on NPR?s ?Here & Now,? which airs on 170 NPR affiliates nationwide, about President Barack Obama?s $500 million plan to reduce gun violence.
Buffalo News front-page story features UB study on use of stem cells in MS
A front-page story in the Buffalo News reports on a new study soon to be underway at UB and two other upstate medical centers to test a procedure that infuses stem cells into the brains of patients with multiple sclerosis to repair damage to their central nervous systems. The article quotes Bianca Guttman-Weinstock, co-principal investigator on the study. ?Expectations have to be kept under control,? she said. ?You?re not going to implant stem cells in people and suddenly see them running around.?