News Releases

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Ballet Flamenco Jose Porcel at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. A pre-performance talk will be held at 7 p.m. The performance is sponsored by KeyBank. Media sponsor is WGRZ-TV.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Mitch Albom at 8 p.m. on Nov. 18 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The event is sponsored by the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care.

The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present Zodiaque Dance Company: Dance Wonders Oct. 19-23 in the Drama Theatre located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Faculty experts from the University at Buffalo Law School and School of Management are available for commentary on Delphi's bankruptcy and its likely impact on Delphi workers, the Buffalo Niagara economy and the U.S. auto industry.

The University at Buffalo School of Management has formed a new department, Operations Management and Strategy (OMS), which brings the field of business strategy together with supply chains and operations management.

From Oct. 20-23, more than 30 scholars from Taiwan, China and North America will converge on the University at Buffalo and Albright-Knox art galleries to examine, in their global contexts, the historical and aesthetic significance of the so-called "Great Wall," along with many other Chinese boundaries, both physical and metaphorical.

Subtle differences in the ways that individuals look, walk, write and speak -- known as biometrics -- will be the subject of the Fourth IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies to be held Oct. 17-18 at the University at Buffalo.

University at Buffalo officials announced today that the spent nuclear reactor fuel has been removed from the University at Buffalo's research reactor on UB's South (Main Street) Campus. The spent fuel has been deposited in a nuclear materials storage site in Idaho that is maintained by the United States Department of Energy.

Mark H. Karwan, Ph.D., has announced that he is stepping down as dean of the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and returning to the faculty of the school as a researcher and teacher. Karwan, who has been in the position for 12 years, has indicated he will continue as dean until a successor is in place.

The University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Thursday evening honored 14 outstanding alumni and friends at its first alumni awards event, the Julian Park Society Dinner.