Arts and Culture

News about UB’s arts and humanities programs and related events. (see all topics)

  • UB's Steve Kurtz -- One of Europe's Popular Experimental Artists
    7/27/12
    Steve Kurtz, professor of visual studies at the University at Buffalo, a social critic known for his work in bio art and electronic disobedience, has had a busy summer in Europe where he has been involved in three high-visibility projects.
  • UB's "Improvising Consciousness Medicine Show"
    7/20/12
    For some time now, Josephine Anstey, associate professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, has been working with audience participants to explore not only the history, but the experience of diverse and radical theories of mind. She does this through interactive performance workshops she calls "Improvising Consciousness Medicine Shows."
  • Architect's 'Bat Cloud' Brings a Remarkable, Afflicted Animal Out of the Shadows and into the Light
    7/18/12
    A dark cloud hovers above a stand of Eastern cottonwood trees in Tifft Farm, a 264-acre woodland nature refuge on Lake Erie. But this is no ordinary cloud; it is a high-tech habitat for one of the world's most misunderstood species: bats.
  • Clannad to Perform Sept. 23 in UB Center for the Arts
    7/16/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will welcome Clannad on Sunday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, Center for the Arts, North Campus. The concert is produced by Metropolitan Talent Presents.
  • Undergrad Research Conference Draws Students Nationwide to UB and WNY
    7/15/12
    More than 500 undergraduates from around the country, most of them first-generation college students, will arrive in Western New York this week for a research conference intended to spark their interest in careers in academia.
  • Research Opportunities at UB Push Undergraduate Education Boundaries
    6/26/12
    Phil Tucciarone knew as a high school student that he wanted to study nanotechnology; it was just a matter of where. The Ivy League was an option, but so was the University at Buffalo, where he enrolled in 2010. The decision paid off.
  • UB Sophomore Receives Prestigious Boren Scholarship
    6/21/12
    Sarah Boerschig, a sophomore history and Asian studies major and University Honors College scholar at the University at Buffalo, is the first UB student to receive the 2012 David L. Boren Scholarship from the National Security Education Program.
  • UB Anthropologist Will Be Yip Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge
    6/21/12
    Deborah Reed-Danahay, PhD, of Buffalo, professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded a Yip Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, for the 2012 Michaelmas (October to Christmas) term.
  • Animal Architecture: Rescued Bee Colony Gets New Waterfront Home
    6/18/12
    A massive and thriving colony of bees living in an abandoned industrial site in Buffalo has been moved into a brand new home, designed for them by architecture graduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
  • Animal Architecture: Rescued Bee Colony to Get New Buffalo Waterfront Home
    6/4/12
    This week, a massive and thriving colony of bees now living in the walls of an abandoned outbuilding in "Silo City," the former industrial site at the corner of Ohio and Child Streets, will get a glimpse of its brand new home.