Arts and Culture

Deborah Reed-Danahay, UB professor of cultural anthropology, has received a prestigious and highly competitive Jean Monnet Chair teaching post from the European Commission.

The descendants of former slaves will gather at UB for a groundbreaking workshop to reconnect participants with their ancestors, further reveal their family histories and bring new voice to rich historical stories often silenced by the difficulties of tracing obscure and hard-to-follow genealogical paths.

When UB faculty members cite senior Kelly Coughlin’s credentials and accomplishments, her paper, “Too Much of Water,” is front and center.  

Media are invited to see UB's nearly finished solar GRoW Home before it heads to California to compete in a prestigious national competition.

What would you consider to be the Top 10 books that a college student should read? UB English professor Ken Dauber has an answer.

A UB architectural historian's new book illuminates how propagandists used lifestyle stories to soften Hitler’s image prior to World War II.

A guy walks into a major American research university and tells the English department he wants to study comedy as part of his major.

UB students will paint the last of 140 Adirondack chairs that will be placed on campus as part of a plan to enhance the student experience.

In the late 17th century, a fanciful British reformer thought that hunger could be abolished if Parliament enacted a law requiring all landowners to plant fruit trees.

The ultra-efficient modern home — UB’s entry in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon contest — will be moved outside on July 29.