Awards

Art historian Elizabeth Otto, PhD. assistant professor of modern and contemporary art, Department of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $5,000 Conversations in the Disciplines (CID) grant from the State University of New York for the 2011-12 academic year.

The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, which promotes innovative cross-disciplinary research, teaching and community programs in the humanities, has announced recipients of its 2011-12 Faculty Fellowships.

The University at Buffalo will present an exhibition of paintings by Willard "Will" Russell Harris (1933-2008), a 30-year faculty member of the UB Department of Art, May 14 to Aug. 7 in the Anderson Gallery, One Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo.

Freshman architecture students from the University at Buffalo have designed and are building a 96-foot-long string of wooden micro-dwellings that will open to the public later this month at Griffis Sculpture Park. Assembly of "The Living Wall" will conclude the week of April 25. The UB School of Architecture and Planning is inviting the public as well as students, professors and critics to attend an opening reception and dedication ceremony for "The Living Wall" at 1 p.m. on April 29 at the main entrance of the Griffis Sculpture Park, 6902 Mill Valley Road, East Otto in Cattaraugus County.

The International Artistic and Cultural Exchange Program of the University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance (IACE) will present a free performance from Belgium's Theatre Universitaire Royal de Liege on Monday, April 18, at 5:30 p.m. The performance will be held in the Katharine Cornell Theatre, located in the Ellicott Complex on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the University at Buffalo School of Management as one of the nation's "Best Undergraduate Business Programs of 2011."

When based on value for the dollar, LSAT scores and faculty publishing, the University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York, ranks 40th in the nation, higher than other well-known schools such as UCLA, Michigan and Temple University, according to a formula devised by renowned journalist Malcolm Gladwell in a recent issue of The New Yorker magazine.

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."

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.

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.