http://www.buffalo.edu/calendar/ en-US Copyright 2008, University at Buffalo 2008-07-24T00:14:03-04:00 ubinfo@buffalo.edu ubinfo@buffalo.edu http://wings.buffalo.edu/ubgreen/energyforthefuture/home/ Visit UB's Solar Lounge and see the "Energy for the Future" exhibit on the 3rd floor of the Undergraduate Library in Capen Hall. You'll have an up-close view of UB's photovoltaic installation on the roof of Norton Hall, and an opportunity to learn how the system works. http://ublib.buffalo.edu/hsl/exhibits/index.html Opening Doors celebrates the contributions of African-American academic surgeons to medicine and medical education. It tells the stories of four pioneering African-American surgeons and educators who exemplify excellence in their fields and believe in continuing the journey of excellence through the education and mentoring of younger physicians and surgeons. (On loan from the National Library of Medicine) http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/music/exhibits/index.html This exhibit provides some historical background on the songs of the university: the alma mater, fight songs, hymns, marches, and songs associated with specific schools of the university. The composers and lyricists of these songs include university faculty, staff, and students, as well as locally and nationally known composers. The exhibit also provides brief biographical information about many of the composers. http://ubartgalleries.buffalo.edu/pages/UBArtGallery/cfacurrent.shtml Opening reception: 5:30-midnight, Thursday, July 17, 2008 <p>NLXL experiments with the possibilities of combining visual and interactive elements within single design solutions. Content, form and technique are carefully considered in each and every solution.</p> <p>NLXL designs logos, corporate and visual identities, Web sites and Web-identities, event styles, forms, posters, animations, books, content management systems, digital presentations and other digital applications.</p> <p>The exhibition will feature graphic posters and an interactive, multimedia installation.</p> http://ubartgalleries.buffalo.edu/pages/UBArtGallery/cfacurrent.shtml Nazarian frames and choreographs an architectural experience as audiences are drawn toward a responsive minimalist structure, seemingly hovering in midair. Working in the fertile intersections of art, architecture, and emergent technology, she employs switchable Liquid crystal layered privacy glass to explore cognition and think about the ways in which we navigate the environment we live in. In the commercial sector, privacy glass has been used primarily for partitions, display cases, bank screens, and as enclosures for conference rooms, and provocatively, in dressing rooms and bathrooms. Presented in an academic and artistic context, Introversions seeks to discover how new materials such as privacy glass fundamentally alter spatial relationships and human perception. Nazarian isolates and enhances disorienting moments inherent to urban conditions that are triggered by reflections and other strange sights seen out of the corner of the eye by combining minimalist sculpture and architecture to generate uncanny optical effects. Nazarian moved to New York City in 1989 to join I.M. Pei &amp; Partners as an architectural designer, and then to Ithaca, NY to teach at Cornell University (1991-92, and 1999-2002). She has been teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning since 1994. The production of Introversions is sponsored in part, by a generous grant from the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Program (Film, Media and New Technology Production Category), New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipends, as well as the support of CBO Glass, KNEMA LLC, Polytronix Inc. and SMG HARSON. Fabrication by factoryny. http://www.wbfo.org/storycorps Interview someone you love and make history in sound! WBFO welcomes StoryCorps, NPR's national oral history project to Western New York. This project will record Western New Yorkers' interviews with a relative, co-worker, or mentor. StoryCorps facilitators will work with you to record your conversation for the Library of Congress, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library and future generations for national public radio and for WBFO! <p>The StoryCorps MobileBooth will be parked at Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, 1 Lafayette Square, downtown Buffalo. Reservations are required: go to wbfo.org/storycorps or call 800-850-4406.</p>