Champions for Change, a program offered by the UB School of Architecture and Planning, will hold its fifth annual Idea Summit from 10 a.m. to noon on May 11 in 403 Hayes Hall on the UB South Campus.
UB’s Creative Arts Initiative will present the boundary-defying voice-and-piano Hayley-Laufer Duo on May 18 in a concert performance that features the world premieres of compositions from five revolutionary contributors.
Indeterminacy Festival 2019 will explore eras of geologic time and ways in which gravitational and electromagnetic waves serve as communicators between past, present and future.
L. Nelson Hopkins, who has transformed the way the medical field thinks about and treats cerebrovascular disorders, will be awarded theNorton Medal, UB’s highest honor, during the 2019 commencement ceremonies being held May 3-19.
New degree and certificate programs are coming to the UB College of Arts and Sciences. UB’s Department of Jewish Thought will soon launch its master’s program; the Sociology department now has a bachelor’s degree in criminology; and an Advanced Certificate in Sustainability is offered through the Graduate Interdisciplinary Degree Program.
Peggy O’Brien, founding director of education at the Folger Shakespeare Library and an international expert on the teaching of Shakespeare, will present a workshop at UB on April 26 as part of the UB English department’s contribution to the campus-wide Discovery Week.
