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  • Back to Buffalo 4: UB Alumni Dance Concert
    9/11/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Back to Buffalo 4: UB Alumni Dance Concert on Saturday, Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus. The performance is sponsored in part by the UB Alumni Association.
  • LehrerDance to Perform Oct. 6 at UB as Part of M&T Bank Dance Series
    9/5/12
    The Center for the Arts at University at Buffalo will present LehrerDance on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus. The performance is sponsored by M&T Bank.
  • Buffalo Garden Symposium Considers Gardening Issues Afoot in the Land
    9/4/12
    Whether they are engaged in garden tourism, indigenous "green gardening," beautifying the yard or reclaiming the area's historic landscapes, Buffalo is a city of gardeners and garden lovers and the University at Buffalo Gender Institute has a present for them.
  • Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood: Two Man Group
    9/4/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood: Two Man Group on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.
  • Memory of Late Historian and Human Rights Activist Alison Des Forges Honored by UB Scholarship
    9/4/12
    The University at Buffalo has established a scholarship in memory of Alison L. Des Forges, the late historian and human rights activist who was killed in the crash of Continental Flight 3407 near Buffalo on Feb. 12, 2009.
  • Hoppity, Hippity, It's Serendipity: UB's Shepard to Present at Venice Architecture Biennale
    8/24/12
    The Venice Architecture Biennale is the most prestigious architecture event in the world, and when the 13th biennale opens on Aug. 29, University at Buffalo innovator Mark Shepard will be there with bells on.
  • Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: Battles Over Segregated Recreation Shaped Civil Rights Movement
    8/23/12
    Victoria W. Wolcott, PhD, associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, is the author of a new book in which she exposes the legacy of segregated recreation in American cities after World War II. The book, "Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America," out this month from the University of Pennsylvania Press, continues Wolcott's research on the African-American experience in the 20th-century urban North.
  • Solo Performance by Bruce Hornsby Coming to UB Center for the Arts
    8/23/12
    The Center for the Arts at University at Buffalo will present Bruce Hornsby -- Solo on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
  • Steve Vai, with Special Guest Beverly McClellan, to Perform Sept. 22 at UB
    8/21/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Steve Vai on Saturday, Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus. Beverly McClellan will open the show.
  • World's Largest Tobacco Use Study Reveals Tobacco Control Remains A Major Challenge
    8/17/12
    An international survey of tobacco use in three billion individuals, published in the current issue of The Lancet demonstrates an urgent need for policy change in low- and middle-income countries, according to the University at Buffalo professor who led the research.