Arts and Culture

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UB researcher has some questions for the interview
2/16/15
Interviews begin with questions, but a University at Buffalo researcher is instead questioning the interview, and the answers are mapping the history and unexplored conceptual areas of this familiar information-gathering tool.
UB Humanities Night to feature O’Neill’s ‘The Hairy Ape’
2/16/15
The play is an impassioned 1922 expressionistic work that articulates the trials of a member of the underclasses: “Yank,” the brutish commander of a ship’s stokehole.
UB’s Cecil Foster named to jury that will select 2015 winner of ‘Canada’s Pulitzer’
2/12/15
Jurors will select best book of Canadian fiction from more than 160 contenders.
Playing games with the economy
2/9/15
To help people better understand the state of their personal finances and the nature of the economy, two University at Buffalo graduates students play and design games.
UB plans new graduate specialization in real estate development
1/23/15
The University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning will offer a new graduate specialization in real estate development beginning in September.
Profitable phishing schemes slyly tinker with our heads, then rip us off
1/22/15
‘The claws that catch’ alter cognitive processing to get what they want, new UB research finds.
Obama’s action on Cuba makes ‘eminent sense,’ UB’s Dunnett says
12/22/14
Stephen Dunnett, vice provost for international education, says President Barack Obama’s move to normalize relations with Cuba is unexpected and stunning.
Star turn by UB’s Steve Henderson back on stage in February
12/18/14
UB Professor and Tony Award nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson will star in “Between Riverside and Crazy."
UB’s Carole Emberton lauded by Southern Association for Women Historians
12/4/14
Emberton was honored for her book, “Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the South after the Civil War.”
A "Tale of Two Cities?" Snowstorm has parallels to Dickens' novel, UB English professor says
11/20/14
The use of the Dickens term is not necessarily inappropriate for the current state of affairs, says David Schmid, a UB associate professor of English.