News Releases

The International Artistic and Cultural Exchange Program of the University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance (IACE) will present a free performance from Belgium's Theatre Universitaire Royal de Liege on Monday, April 18, at 5:30 p.m. The performance will be held in the Katharine Cornell Theatre, located in the Ellicott Complex on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

University at Buffalo Media Study Professor Sarah Elder, an ethnographic filmmaker of international recognition, will introduce her latest new project, "Surviving Arctic Climate Change: A Documentary on Inuit Knowledge," on April 15 from 4-6 p.m. in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo.

Harvey G. Stenger Jr., dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been named the University at Buffalo's interim provost. Stenger's appointment, effective April 11, was announced today by Officer-in-Charge Satish K. Tripathi.

Researchers at a new University at Buffalo national research center say the United States lags behind in the struggle to address and prevent bullying, and have begun to detail how to help victims and stop what they call "child abuse by children."

The Buffalo Chips have done it again. The University at Buffalo's all-male a cappella group is set to compete for the second consecutive year in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella in New York City, Saturday, April 16.

Women under the age of 75 with high vitamin D status were less likely to have early age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in adults, a University at Buffalo study has shown. The disease affects approximately 9 percent of Americans aged 40 and older.

New materials science research from the University at Buffalo could hasten the creation of "smart" windows that reflect heat from the sun on hot summer days but let in the heat in colder weather. The findings concern a unique class of synthetic chemical compounds that are transparent to infrared light at lower temperatures, but undergo a phase transition to begin reflecting infrared when they heat up past a certain point. An article detailing some of these discoveries appears today (April 7) on the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Communication researchers at four major universities have found that if you receive a lot of email, habitually respond to a good portion of it, maintain a lot of online relationships and conduct a large number of transactions online, you are more susceptible to email phishing expeditions than those who limit their online activity.

The Center for the Arts Video Production group at the University at Buffalo has won a 2011 New York Emmy Award. The award was received in the Informational/Instructional: Feature/Segment category at the 54th Annual New York Emmy Awards presentation on April 3 in New York City.

The University at Buffalo is offering students from Western New York high schools free tickets to attend the upcoming lecture by pioneering genomics researcher, J. Craig Venter, who will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 27 in Alumni Arena on the UB North Campus as part of UB's 24th Annual Distinguished Speakers Series.