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Arts and Culture

News about UB’s arts and humanities programs and related events.

3/18/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Community members will get the chance to celebrate National Poetry Month in April by paying homage to the poems of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson in an epic community marathon reading in which all 1,789 of Dickinson’s poems will be read aloud in 14 hours.

3/8/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Only at an event like Buffalo’s Science & Art Cabaret could you find a mix of presenters this diverse: On March 15, a physicist, a planetary geologist, a visual studies professor and an ensemble of digital musicians will convene to present their work on the topic of the universe.

2/21/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. — UB architecture students who designed and built a new home for a colony of bees living in an abandoned Buffalo office building are in the running for a highly regarded architecture prize, and the Western New York community can help them win.

2/6/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Satish A. Tripathi, president of the University at Buffalo, and Jack Lightstone, president of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, have made official a joint Master of Arts degree in Canadian and American studies to be offered in the fall.

1/31/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Carole Emberton, assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo, is the recipient of the Richards Prize for the best article published in the 2012 edition of the Journal of the Civil War Era, the official journal of the Society of Civil War Historians.

1/25/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Gender Institute and other UB humanities’ presenters will offer a number of lecture programs and other events related to topics that include women’s relationships to the natural and built environment, to ancient and contemporary cultures, and to the labor movement; disability and housing in rural South; and the social identity and opportunities available to young Asian American men.

1/24/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) will open its doors to the public on Jan. 30 for “Modularity,” the latest event in Buffalo’s Science & Art Cabaret series.

1/24/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. — If it were possible to capture the soul of a city inside a single home, it might look something like the house that Dennis Maher has spent the past three years refurbishing on Buffalo’s West Side.

1/18/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A rare collection of letters, audio files, photographs and other materials that could illuminate the personal beliefs of Robert Frost is being made available to the public for the first time.

1/10/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo Confucius Institute (UBCI) and the Chinese Club of Western New York (CCWNY), in partnership with Buffalo’s Gold Summit Organization for the Development of Eastern Culture, will present their colorful, musical and much anticipated annual Chinese New Year celebration on Feb. 10.