Media Advisories

News about upcoming UB events that may be of interest to the media.

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  • Media Advisory: Star of PBS Specials Will Visit UB
    4/3/09
    S. James Gates Jr., Ph.D., a leading African-American physicist, PBS star and fervent popularizer of science will give a lecture on "The DNA of Reality and its Genome" at 4:30 p.m. today (Friday, April 3, 2009) in 112 Norton Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The lecture will be free and open to the public.
  • Media Advisory: Physics for Pre-Schoolers (and Teenagers, too) During UB's Astronomy Celebration
    4/3/09
    Preschoolers from University at Buffalo Child Care Centers and high school students from the Buffalo Public Schools will watch streaming Webcasts of planetary activities going on as far as a billion light years away from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today (Friday, April 3, 2009) on the second-floor landing of Fronczak Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Media Advisory: UB Students Design Real Cliff-Hangers -- Dwellings that Cling to Edge of Cliff
    4/3/09
    Intriguing "Wall Buildings," architectural models constructed by first-year undergraduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning under the direction of Adjunct Professor Christopher Romano, will be showcased at an exhibition of students' work.
  • Media Advisory: UB's CSTEP Program to hold Day of Service at Grover Cleveland High School
    4/1/09
    The Collegiate Science & Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) at the University at Buffalo will hold its third annual Day of Service from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today (Wednesday, April 1, 2009) at Grover Cleveland High School, 110 14th Street, Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: Who Are The Extraterrestrials Among Us? Whales!
    3/26/09
    Quick: name one mammal that looks anything like a whale. You can't. Modern whales are at the same time mammals and "real-life" extraterrestrials who have adapted to life in the water. That's according to University of Michigan Professor Philip D. Gingerich, who is an expert on whales and how they evolved. He conducts fieldwork in the deserts of Pakistan and Egypt where he has discovered skeletons linking whales to land animals.
  • Media Advisory: Oren Lyons Will Give Public Talk at UB Workshop on Indian Nations
    3/25/09
    Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of American Studies at the University at Buffalo, will give a free, public talk today (Wednesday, March 25, 2009) at 7 p.m. on "Indigenous Perspectives on Our Relationship to the Natural World."
  • Media Advisory: Take a Virtual "Spin" in UB's Driving Simulator
    3/20/09
    Members of the media are invited to go for a virtual "spin" in the University at Buffalo's driving simulator, which now sports a real front end.
  • Media Advisory: Learning How the Brain Works
    3/19/09
    Fourth-graders in Buffalo's Highgate Heights Elementary School, PS 80, will get a fun look at how the brain works today (Thursday, March 19, 2009) provided by neuroscience graduate students at the University at Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: Alternative Spring Break at UB
    3/9/09
    Cancel Cancun. Forget Florida. Some University at Buffalo students will be spending spring break right here in Buffalo, working to improve their community.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Host Screening of Afghan War Documentary
    3/9/09
    The public is invited to attend a showing of the independently produced documentary "At War" and meet the videographer and director Scott Kesterson Monday at the University at Buffalo.