Awards

The University at Buffalo will offer the first UB Coast to Coast Entertainment and Media Conference June 27-28 in Los Angeles. Created specifically for UB alumni, students and friends of UB, but open to the public, UBC2C will feature workshops in acting, writing, directing, music production, independent film production and marketing, as well as entertainment business marketing, taught by UB industry alumni.

This month, the city of Anchorage, Alaska, will celebrate life in the Arctic with "Freeze," a bold series of outdoor installations by artists, architects and designers committed to perpetuating the Northern spirit, along with a wide variety of other events. Brian Carter, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, has written a book about the projects being presented.

The University at Buffalo -- a longtime leader among major research universities in the United States in terms of percentage of enrollment represented by international students -- has increased its profile in the latest "Open Doors 2008" report published by the Institute of International Education (IIE).

Robert O. Swados,'38, of counsel with the law offices of Phillips Lytle LLP, has given $25,000 to the University at Buffalo to establish the Elizabeth Swados Award in Theatre and Dance at UB, in honor of his Obie Award-winning daughter. The Swados Award will provide merit-based scholarship support to an undergraduate student in the Department of Theatre and Dance in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

The various histories of "madness" and what the term means today will be the subject of extensive discussion at the University at Buffalo's 2008 Humanities Institute Conference October 31-November 1.

"City of Webs," a composition by University at Buffalo Music Department alumnus Alejandro Rutty (Ph.D., 2002) based on a text of the same title by Michael Basinski, Ph.D., curator of the UB Poetry Collection, will make its premiere as part of "Unimaginable Music & Unruly Artists," the 2008 New Music Festival to be presented by the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, School of Music Oct. 28-30.

More than 100 educators will celebrate the success of and take cues from the University at Buffalo's pioneer "City Voices, City Visions" student digital video project during a regional conference to be held Sept. 26 in the WNED Studios, 140 Lower Terrace, Buffalo.

The University at Buffalo is rated very highly as a "great place to work" by the Chronicle of Higher Education in a national survey of the quality of the academic workplace.

WBFO 88.7 FM, the University at Buffalo's National Public Radio affiliate, won seven awards -- including three first-place honors -- at the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association's annual awards banquet held recently in Saratoga Springs.

Thomas Burrows, executive director of the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo has been elected to join the Board of Directors of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare.