Awards

News about awards and recognition earned by UB and members of our community. (see all topics)

  • Film Program Originally Set for Smithsonian Screening Now Will Be Seen Only in Buffalo
    2/21/11
    On Feb. 28, the University at Buffalo will present "Portraiture in Queer Experimental Cinema," a program of short films originally developed as part of the scholarly symposium around the groundbreaking Smithsonian Institution exhibition "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture."
  • UB Presents 15th Annual International Women's Film Festival February 17 - April 1
    2/11/11
    The University at Buffalo Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender will kick off its 15th annual International Women's Film Festival at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 at Buffalo's Market Arcade Film and Arts Center, 639 Main St., Buffalo, with Sally Potter's 1992 award-winning film "Orlando," starring Tilda Swinton.
  • UB Art Gallery Presents Exhibition of Contemporary Still Life and Figuration Feb. 17 to May 14
    1/18/11
    The exhibition title "Figuration and its Disconnects" is a play on Sigmund Freud's canonical book Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), which examines the interplay between society and the individual, whose instinctual desires for aggression and sex threaten to destabilize societal relations.
  • UB Confucius Institute and Chinese Club of WNY to Celebrate Chinese New Year Feb. 5
    1/11/11
    The University at Buffalo Confucius Institute, in partnership with the Chinese Club of Western New York (CCWNY), will present a Chinese New Year celebration on Feb. 5 from 3-6 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
  • Pest Architecture: MacDowell Colony Fellowship to Support Architect's Work on Pest Wall
    1/4/11
    University at Buffalo architecture faculty member Joyce Hwang will spend five weeks this spring at the nation's oldest artists' colony, where she will conclude a semester-long sabbatical devoted to a project she hopes to build in Buffalo: Pest Wall.
  • Kiplinger's Ranks UB as One of the "Best Values" in Public Higher Education
    1/4/11
    The University at Buffalo provides a quality education at an affordable price, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance, which has placed UB on the magazine's 2011 list of the 100 Best Values in Public Colleges.
  • Anderson Gallery Exhibition to Document Buffalo's Waterfront Grain Elevators
    12/10/10
    The University at Buffalo's Anderson Gallery will present the exhibition "American Chartres: Buffalo's Waterfront Elevators," featuring documentary photographs of the architectural giants by Bruce Jackson, Jan. 22 to March 6.
  • UB Now Ranks 12th Among Top U.S. Campuses In International Enrollment
    11/17/10
    The University at Buffalo, long a leader among major American research universities in the percentage of international students enrolled, ranked 12th among the top 25 U.S. campuses hosting international students in 2009-10, up from 2008-09, when it ranked 17th.
  • UB MBA Program Ranked in Bloomberg Businessweek
    11/12/10
    Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the University at Buffalo School of Management as one of the nation's best business schools in its ranking of full-time MBA programs.
  • Mobile Apps for Serendipity and Sound Gardens Connect City Dwellers to Their Surroundings
    10/26/10
    In an urban environment, how can technology cultivate a sense of community and connect us with the world around us? Two new projects by University at Buffalo media architect and researcher Mark Shepard address that question, enabling city dwellers to leverage their cell phones as tools for discovery as they navigate city streets and other public spaces.