UB law professor Samantha Barbas' latest book, “Newsworthy: The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom,” examines the first Supreme Court case to weigh the right of privacy versus freedom of the press.
UB’s Creative Arts Initiative will present The Faust Project: A Staged Reading with Live Music of Goethe's Faust, an inventive reworking of Goethe’s epic by playwright Neil Wechsler and composer Nathan Heidelberger.
Science and art will fuse through the new UB performance, “Dance in Process — Process in Dance,” that uses movement to explore the idea of the human body as host for tiny forms of life.
Comedian and actor John Cleese, whose work includes “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” “Fawlty Towers” and the Oscar-nominated film “A Fish Called Wanda,” will appear at UB on Dec. 9 as part of the UB Distinguished Speakers Series.