Media Advisories

Reporters are invited to stop into Nobody's Gallery, 1121 Elmwood Ave., today (Tuesday, July 28, 2009) from 8-8:30 p.m. to catch a demonstration of how to use live-feed video to survive the economic downturn by panhandling in two locations at once.

UB on the Green, the University at Buffalo's free performance series, will begin its 2009 season today (Tuesday, July 21, 2009) from 6-8 p.m. on UB's South (Main Street) Campus with a collection of light classics from the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

More than 50 gardens in the University Heights and Eggertsville neighborhoods will be on display during the eighth annual Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk to be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, July 18, 2009) in the neighborhoods near the University at Buffalo South (Main Street) Campus.

More than 30 middle school, high school, pre-service science and college educators from states ranging from Michigan to Massachusetts will come together on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus today (Wednesday, July 15, 2009) to discuss the latest online resources to help them teach complicated scientific concepts to students who need science knowledge now more than ever.

Researchers from the University at Buffalo's MCEER and from Calspan today will discuss details and provide images of plans to build two 72-foot-long bridges in Ashford, N.Y., 35 miles south of Buffalo, as part of a project to test how adverse weather conditions and seismic vibrations affect new bridge technologies.

The future talent of Western New York's emerging biotech industry will try their hand on UB's supercomputers today as part of an annual program that encourages local high school students to develop skills and interest in the sciences.

A University at Buffalo social-media expert will manage a social-media campaign around the Ride For Roswell 2009, beginning online at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow, Saturday, June 27. "Embedded" volunteer reporters from UB and the Ride's Web committee will update Twitter feeds and Web content throughout the morning from UB's Baird Point and along bike routes, offering a play-by-play review of the action taking place during the annual event.

The Genesee County Economic Development Center will hold a groundbreaking and dedication ceremony at 3:30 p.m. today (Friday, June 26, 2009) for the Dr. Bruce A. Holm Upstate MedTech Centre in the Upstate MedTech Park on Assemblyman R. Stephen Hawley Drive, near Genesee Community College, in Batavia.

Nothing like a little pressure to bring out the best in an entrepreneur, and there will be plenty of it at the 2009 Explore Buffalo Niagara Investor High-Tech Forum being held today (Thursday, June 25, 2009).

Nancy Zimpher, who became chancellor of the State University of New York system on June 1, will be available to speak to Buffalo-area media at a briefing to be held at 1:30 p.m. today (Tuesday, June 23) in the lobby of Harriman Hall on the University at Buffalo's South (Main Street) Campus.