Nnedi Okorafor, an associate professor in the UB Department of English, has become only the fourth author in the past 20 years to write a novella that jointly earned Hugo and Nebula awards, two of the science fiction genre’s highest literary honors.
Dava Sobel, author of “Longitude,” “Galileo’s Daughter,” “The Planets” and “A More Perfect Heaven,” will be the featured speaker at the Buffalo Humanities Festival Sept. 22-24.
UB architect Joyce Hwang’s latest animal architecture creation, called Bower, will be celebrated at an opening event this Thursday at Artpark in Lewiston.
UB will wrap up its 10th season of UB on the Green, the university’s free outdoor event series featuring live music, dancing and hands-on activities for the entire family, on Aug. 3 with “Veterans and Athletics Night.”