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Reimagining a quiet campus space for the sound of music
9/30/20
From a balloon suspended above campus to a system of urban furniture, students in a graduate architecture studio created some innovative ideas for incorporating music performance space onto campus.

UB stories heard around the world in 2019
12/26/19
BUFFALO, N.Y. — We predicted new forms of superhard carbon, including some that could be harder than diamonds. We made groundbreaking discoveries about memory loss. We told the forgotten stories of women who helped build the Bauhaus, a design school and movement known around the world.

UB Alumni Association elects new president, officers
7/9/19
Gary Jastrzab, a Buffalo native, earned bachelor’s degrees in environmental design and sociology while attending UB.

UB in the News

Greenland could lose more ice this century than it has in 12,000 years
9/30/20
National Geographic and several major news outlets around the world covered new research led by Jason Briner, whose team concludes that the Greenland Ice Sheet is on track to lose ice at a faster pace this century than in any century over the last 12,000 years.
Amy Coney Barrett: what will she mean for women's rights?
9/27/20
The Guardian interviewed Lucinda Finley, on what Supreme Court nominee Amy Comey Barrett might mean to reproductive rights, health care and more.
The rise of the wokefluencer
9/22/20
GQ quotes Monica Stephens, in a story that takes a critical look at the efforts that social media influencers who are making to post content in support of Black Lives Matter, and how audiences often perceive that content to be insincere and self-serving.
As the pandemic rages, Canadians prefer a closed border with Donald Trump’s America
9/20/20
A Toronto Star column quotes Kathryn Friedman, about Canadians' preference for strict border restrictions between Canada and the U.S. as the U.S. continues to struggle to contain the coronavirus.
Millard Fillmore's achievements should be celebrated, not vilified
9/19/20
The Buffalo News published an op-ed written by James Campbell, about exploring the legacy of President Fillmore and the Compromise of 1850.