A panel discussion on "African Americans in Government" will be held at noon on Thursday, Feb. 20, in the Archie L. Hunter Library in the University at Buffalo's Educational Opportunity Center, 465 Washington St.
Magnus Martensson, former conductor of the Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Cleveland Institute of Music, has been named director of the UB Civic Symphony.
Cort Lippe, considered by many to be his generation's leading composer of computer music, has been appointed assistant professor of music and director of the Hiller Computer Music Studios at UB.
The University of Georgia will sponsor a national conference in March in honor of John J. Peradotto, Andrew V.V. Raymond Professor of Classics and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at UB.
Photo exhibits and lectures on such topics as current issues in Israel, tracing one's Jewish "roots" and "Survival in Sarajevo" will be among highlights of Jewish Awareness Month, to be held Feb. 9 through March 8 at UB.
Three natural-disaster movies featuring killer volcanoes that will hit movie and television screens this year are putting the spotlight on the expertise of volcanologists at the University at Buffalo.
Stephen L. Dyson, professor and chair of the Department of Classics, has been elected to his second two-year term as president of the Archaeological Institute of America.
The University at Buffalo has opened its first fiber-optic, real-time, distance-learning classroom, a completely interactive, full-motion, video learning and conferencing center.
Marina Boruk of Forest Hills, a senior in the Department of Biological Sciences, has been selected as the first recipient of the McCroskey Endowment Fellowship.
A $50,000 gift from a 1935 alumnus of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and his wife will be used to support the Museum of Neuroanatomy , housed in the Biomedical Education Building on UB's South Campus.
