Social Sciences

News about UB’s social sciences programs, including anthropology, psychology and social work. (see all topics)

  • UB Architecture Student Named Tradewell Fellow in Medical Planning
    4/29/05
    The Houston-based architecture and interior design firm of Watkins Hamilton Ross (WHR) has announced that Shouvik Chakaborty, a Bombay native and graduate student in architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has received the firm's prestigious 2005-06 Tradewell Fellowship in Medical Planning.
  • UB Department of Media Study to Offer Summer Workshop on "The Poetics of Movement"
    4/29/05
    The University at Buffalo Department of Media Study will offer a hands-on, two-week intensive workshop to teach filmmaking and digital arts as collaborative tools for exploration of movement.
  • UB Conference to Gather Leaders in "Computational Anatomy"
    4/7/05
    Some of the leading figures at the forefront of the new field of "computational anatomy" will be at the University at Buffalo next week to attend a conference titled "Mapping the Human Body: Spatial Reasoning at the Interface Between Human Anatomy and Geographic Information Science."
  • Group Therapy Helps Car-Accident Survivors Deal with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
    4/1/05
    Working with survivors of terrible and sometimes nightmarish car accidents, University at Buffalo psychologist J. Gayle Beck has developed a new group-therapy treatment program for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of their accidents.
  • Top National Honors from the American Planning Association Go to Projects Developed by UB for the Buffalo Community
    3/31/05
    The American Planning Association this week honored two recent University at Buffalo-City of Buffalo projects with its top annual awards, including the 2005 Best Student Project Award, at its annual conference in San Francisco.
  • Architects Receive Regional, National, International Recognition
    3/21/05
    Edward Steinfeld, Kenneth MacKay, Lynda Schneekloth and Robert Shibley, all faculty members in the Department of Architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, have been recognized for the quality of their work.
  • "The Woman in the Shaman's Body" Provides Myth-Shattering Exploration of the Female Roots of Shamanism
    3/18/05
    Shamanism, humankind's oldest spiritual and healing tradition, is in many cultures dominated by men, and Western skeptics often debunk its effectiveness. In a groundbreaking new book published this month by Random House, however, Barbara Tedlock of the University at Buffalo challenges the historical hegemony of the male shamanic tradition, restores women to their essential place in the history of spirituality and celebrates their continuing role in the worldwide resurgence of shamanism.
  • Gift Will Bring Distinguished Architects to Campus
    3/18/05
    A $30,000 gift from Christopher Michael Martell and his wife, Sally, will support a program that will bring architects of international significance to the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning to work with graduate students and give a school-wide public lecture.
  • Strong Link Found Between TMD and Depression
    3/11/05
    Persons with chronic temporomandibular disorders, or TMD, are five times more likely to be taking antidepressants than persons who go to the dentist for routine dental care, a researcher at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine reports.
  • Architect MacKay Designs Space for Frail Elderly Suffused with Warmth, Light and Social Ease
    3/2/05
    The project called for the design of a 24,000 square-foot day-care center for patients with Alzheimer's disease and a 120-unit housing complex for the frail elderly. Architect Kenneth MacKay coupled his knowledge of the psychological, aesthetic and emotional effects of natural light with the special requirements of facilities that serve the elderly, their hands-on staff and the clients they serve. The result is the Total Aging in Place Project (TAIPP) for the Weinberg Campus.