Awards

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

  • UB's Most Dangerous Artists Will Be Well-Represented at Buffalo Infringement Festival
    7/15/10
    "Art Under the Radar," Buffalo's sixth annual infringement festival, featuring 350 art projects and 700 performances, concerts, exhibitions, films and plays, will take place July 22 to Aug. 1 in more than 50 venues throughout the city, and University at Buffalo artists will be in the thick of it, saving the city's historic Scajaquada Drain, offering comic books on demand and much, much more.
  • 19th-Century Spirit Photos -- A Marriage of Technology and the Irrational
    6/16/10
    In the latter part of the 19th century, a range of powerful new visual technologies were developed that used the intrinsic mechanics of light-sensitive media to achieve spiritual allusions and illusions. Elizabeth Otto, PhD, an award-winning art historian at the University at Buffalo, is particularly interested in "spirit photographs" and the cultures of the paranormal as they relate to the Romantic tradition of spirit or Geist in late 19th- and early 20th-century Austria and Germany and the rise of modernism.
  • Work by UB Architecture Students Will be Presented at 2010 Venice Biennale
    6/10/10
    Two former fellows of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning have been selected to participate in the 12th annual International Architecture Exhibition at the 2010 Venice Biennale, Aug. 29 to Nov. 2.
  • 'City Voices, City Visions' -- UB's Oscars of Digital Student Videos -- Makes a Return Engagement
    6/2/10
    The University at Buffalo's "City Voices, City Visions" student film festival will present its "Academy Awards" to the winning student digital cinematographers at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 3, at its usual venue, the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, 639 Main St., in downtown Buffalo.
  • UB Choirs' Conductor Harold Rosenbaum To Receive ASCAP's Victor Herbert Award
    5/25/10
    Virtuoso choral conductor Harold Rosenbaum, associate professor of music at the University at Buffalo, where he conducts the UB choirs and heads the graduate program in choral conducting, will receive the 2010 Victor Herbert Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in recognition of his contribution to the choral repertory and his service to American composers and their music.
  • UB Professor Stephen Henderson Nominated for Tony Award
    5/11/10
    Actor and director Stephen McKinley Henderson of Buffalo, a professor of theatre and dance at the University at Buffalo known particularly as a performer of the ouvre of the late playwright August Wilson, has been nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway revival of Wilson's 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Fences."
  • At UB's Anderson Gallery: "Under Each Other's Spell": The Gutai and New York
    4/27/10
    An exhibition at the University at Buffalo's Anderson Gallery explores the fruitful relationship between Japan's avant garde Gutari Art Group, founded in 1954 in Osaka, and some of New York's most influential artists of the 1950s and '60s, among them Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauchenberg and Jasper Johns.
  • UB Anderson Gallery: Paul Jenkins in the 1960s and 1970s: Space, Color and Light
    4/26/10
    The University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery is presenting an exhibition titled Paul Jenkins in the 1960s and 1970s: Space, Color and Light through Aug. 22
  • UB Student A Cappella Group Heading to National Competition in NYC
    4/19/10
    Ask the 13 University at Buffalo students in the award-winning, high-flying, history-making, musical zone-dwelling, universally charming, suddenly famous Buffalo Chips a cappella group whether they now believe the truth of that familiar musical adage: A good song can take you far.
  • International artists offer visions for solar installation on UB's North Campus
    4/14/10
    What do a strand of DNA, snow drifts and a terrain of clouds, mountains and ponds have in common? They all provided inspiration for designs submitted by three internationally renowned artists, finalists in a University at Buffalo-sponsored public art competition, for a solar installation to be constructed on UB's North Campus in partnership with the New York Power Authority (NYPA).