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  • Eight UB Inventions from 2011 That You Won't Want to Miss
    12/23/11
    University at Buffalo researchers racked up a diverse list of inventions in 2011, spanning fields from medical imaging to green energy. As of mid-December, UB was issued 14 new U.S. patents and filed 43 provisional patent applications in 2011.
  • Selling Anxiety: True Crime Lit is Both Good and Bad for Us, Says UB Scholar
    12/21/11
    From Lizzie Borden to "In Cold Blood," "Helter Skelter," "Lobster Boy" and Ann Rule's creepy cautionary tales, the popularity of true crime literature, television and film helps drive our perception of the U.S. as a much more dangerous place than it is.
  • Media Advisory: Elementary Students Solve Architectural Problems, Demonstrate Design, Construction, Testing of Bridges as Part of Buffalo Architecture + Education Program
    12/14/11
    On Friday, Dec. 16, members of the media are invited to view two in-school projects conducted this semester through the 10-year-old Buffalo Architecture Foundation's Architecture + Education program.
  • Humanities Institute Scholar Session Honors Bruce Jackson
    10/28/11
    Acclaimed folklorist, documentary filmmaker and photographer Bruce Jackson will be honored at the 2011 Scholar Session presented by the University at Buffalo's Humanities Institute on Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
  • Poet Philip Schultz to Present 2011 Oscar Silverman Reading
    10/27/11
    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Rochester native Philip Schultz will present the University at Buffalo's 2011 Oscar Silverman Reading on Friday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. in 250 Baird Hall on UB's North Campus.
  • LANGUAGE TO COVER A WALL: Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media
    10/27/11
    Just when you thought you'd seen it all "visual poetry" flies onto the scene with everything from Pueblo Indian petroglyphs (circa 1350-1680), contemporary concrete poems, eye poems, typestracts (abstract typewriter art), poem-objects and media-savvy digital poems presented by a wide range of writer/artists working in many media.
  • UB Architecture Lecture Postponed
    10/11/11
    The Oct. 12 Martel Distinguished Critic Lecture by French architect Philippe Rahm, to have taken place at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall on the University at Buffalo South Campus, has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a date and time TBA. The lecture is sponsored by the UB School of Architecture and Planning.
  • UB's Confucius Institute Celebrates Chinese Moon Festival with Music and Dance
    9/22/11
    The Confucius Institute at the University at Buffalo will celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival on Oct. 1 with the presentation of a free public performance of music and dance by highly accomplished student artists from the College of Music, Capital Normal University, Beijing.
  • "The War in the Medicine Cabinet" To Open UB's Scholars at Hallwalls Series
    9/15/11
    The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute will kick off its "Scholars at Hallwalls" lecture series at 4 p.m. on Sept. 23 with a free public lecture by David Herzberg, PhD, assistant professor of history at UB and an expert in America's relationship with prescription drugs.
  • Public Invited to Events Celebrating Inauguration Week at UB
    9/12/11
    The University at Buffalo will celebrate the inauguration of its 15th president, Satish K. Tripathi, with a week-long series of events, Sept. 19-23. Related art exhibitions will begin before and run beyond that week. All events are open to the public and all but a few are free of charge.