http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=ub2020-culture en-US Copyright 2008, University at Buffalo 2008-05-17T10:20:50-04:00 apage@buffalo.edu apage@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9318 The University at Buffalo has established the Institute for Jewish Thought, Heritage and Culture, a multidisciplinary research and academic degree-granting center that will focus scholarship on the critical role that Judaism has played in the development and communication of Western thought. 2008-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 93180009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9312 A new study of television viewing and communication patterns among young adults by University at Buffalo researchers has found a relationship between reality television viewing and "promiscuous friending" on popular social networking sites such as Facebook. 2008-04-14T00:00:00-04:00 93120009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9096 Much research addresses how and why many of the earth's thousands of languages are disappearing. The question still arises, however, as to why it should matter to the rest of us if, say, <i>Pite Sami</i>, a language spoken by fewer than 20 inhabitants of Norway and Sweden, should vanish from the face of the Earth. Jeff Good, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo linguist, says that we should attend to these losses because even seldom-used languages can tell us a great deal about the methods of categorization of the natural and mental world and because they can serve as vital links between the present and the prehistoric past. 2008-01-22T00:00:00-04:00 90960009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9065 The Concrete Central, Agway, The Great Northern, The Marine A, The Lake and Rail, Kellogg, Pillsbury, H&O Oats, Exchange American, Electric Annex -- these are just a few of the "Grand Ladies of the Lake" whose fascinating biographies and arresting photos are the subject of a new book on Buffalo's grain elevators edited by landscape architect Lynda Schneekloth. 2008-01-08T00:00:00-04:00 90650009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9051 A new academic journal founded and edited by Isaac Ehrlich, SUNY Distinguished Professor and University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of Economics, has debuted from the University of Chicago Press. 2008-01-02T00:00:00-04:00 90510009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9005 It was while researching the history of African-Americans in Oklahoma that Barbara Nevergold, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo came across the name of Andrew J. Smitherman in the records of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. 2007-11-30T00:00:00-04:00 90050009