News Releases

Adolfo Carrión Jr., director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy, a position created by President Barack Obama last year to focus federal investment in cities for the first time in several decades, will present the Graduate Planning Student Association Lecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning on April 23 at 1 p.m. in 146 Diefendorf Hall, UB South Campus.

The University at Buffalo engineer who developed the world's first apparatus designed to realistically test how building contents, architectural components and equipment (called nonstructural components) fare during earthquakes will leave for Chile on March 5 on a week-long reconnaissance mission to see firsthand what kind of damage hospitals and tall, engineered buildings sustained during Saturday's powerful, 8.8 magnitude earthquake.

Canadian author, poet, critic and social campaigner Margaret Atwood will speak at 8 p.m. today (Wednesday, March 3, 2010) in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts as part of the 2009-10 Distinguished Speakers Series.

Science Exploration Day, the University at Buffalo's annual science-education bash, will make a return engagement to UB's North Campus on March 10, once again attracting some of the top science minds in the area, ages 14 and up.

Edward H. Steinfeld, ArchD, AIA, of Amherst, an award-winning professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and an international pioneer in the field of inclusive design and environmental access, will receive the university's second annual Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence from UB President John B. Simpson at 5 p.m. March 25 in 146 Diefendorf Hall, UB South Campus.

Makau W. Mutua, dean of the University at Buffalo Law School, has been elected to the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, a New York City-based think tank and membership organization that studies major international issues and publishes the influential journal Foreign Policy.

The University at Buffalo School of Management and M&T Bank will host more than 80 students from 16 public, private and charter schools in the third annual "MoneySKILL® Mania," a financial literacy competition for high school juniors and seniors

A rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 is yielding a treasure trove of essential information about the age and evolutionary origins of the species whose future is now seen as synonymous with the devastation wrought by climate change.

The distinctive musical and narrative heritage of Korea will come to life on March 11 with a performance of Korean p'ansori by Chan Park, an internationally acclaimed master of the p'ansori story-singing tradition.

One way to stem the rising rates of obesity may be to mimic the successful approach used to decrease smoking: taxes.