Awards

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

  • Media Advisory: "Simple" designs that promote and provoke sustainability and social change
    4/12/10
    The public is largely unaware of an important movement among artists of all stripes advocating for sustainable agriculture, products and services. Students and faculty members in the University at Buffalo departments of visual studies, media study, architecture and planning are among those deeply involved in this movement.
  • UB's Food and Emerging Media Speaker Series Returns with 'Food in the City'
    3/29/10
    The Food and Emerging Media Speakers Series -- designed to address issues of food and technology, and food and sustainability -- will continue its 2010 program with "Food in the City," a talk by Amanda McDonald Crowley, executive director of the non-profit Eyebeam art and technology center in New York City, at 7 p.m. April 1 in the Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave.
  • UB's Arts, Entertainment and Media Symposium in NYC Now Open for Registration
    3/25/10
    Registration is open for the University at Buffalo's second annual Coast to Coast Symposium on Arts, Entertainment and Media (UBC2C NYC), to be held July 23-25 at Macaulay Honors College at CUNY in New York City. The three-day event is designed to bring UB students and recent graduates together to learn, network and explore careers with prominent UB alumni in arts, entertainment and media.
  • Explore "The Invisible Universe" at the Spring Science and Art Cabaret
    3/24/10
    The popularity of the fall 2009 Science and Art Cabaret, sponsored by the University at Buffalo and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, sent a clear message to its organizers that the Buffalo community has a thirst to explore science and art together ... over a drink or two.
  • Cravens gives world-class archaeological and ethnographic collection to UB
    3/23/10
    Annette Cravens, MSW '68, has donated her multimillion dollar collection of archaeological and ethnographic objects -- dating as far back as 4,500 BC -- to the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences.
  • A&E Television Network's Abbe Raven to Keynote Arts, Entertainment and Media Symposium in NYC
    3/22/10
    Abbe Raven, BA '74, president and CEO of A&E Television Networks (AETN), will be the keynote speaker at the University at Buffalo's second annual Coast to Coast Symposium on Arts, Entertainment and Media (UBC2C NYC).
  • UB Receives National Recognition for Community Service
    3/18/10
    The University at Buffalo has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
  • Felder Wins Academy Award for Music From American Academy of Arts And Letters
    3/5/10
    David Felder, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Birge-Cary Chair in Composition in the University at Buffalo Department of Music, widely regarded as one of America's finest composers of contemporary classical music, has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' 2010 Academy Award in Music.
  • Play, Films, Speakers Recall Rwandan Genocide and Honor the Life of Alison Des Forges
    1/26/10
    The celebrated one-woman play Miracle in Rwanda, which tells the story of a Rwandan woman who survived her country's 1994 horrifying genocide, will be performed on Feb. 11-13 at the University at Buffalo in memory of the late human-rights activist, historian and MacArthur Fellow Alison L. Des Forges.
  • Thrillers, Dramas Mark UB Film Seminars Spring Semester Lineup
    12/31/09
    The Buffalo Film Seminars, a semester-long series of movie screenings sponsored by the University at Buffalo, will mark its 20th season this spring with a lineup heavy on thrillers and dramas.