Arts and Culture

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  • Media Advisory: June in Buffalo Video Discusses "New Music on Old Instruments"
    6/1/12
    June in Buffalo 2012, a thrilling and internationally acclaimed festival of contemporary classical music presented by the University at Buffalo, offers an opportunity for the Western New York public to expand its understanding of contemporary music and its astonishing possibilities.
  • UB Launches PhD Program in Urban and Regional Planning
    5/31/12
    The University at Buffalo has announced that it will launch a new doctoral program in Urban and Regional Planning in its School of Architecture and Planning.
  • Wallenda's High-Wire Walk: Experts Weigh in on Water Plumes, Crowd Psychology and Angry Falcons
    5/29/12
    On June 15, high-wire artist Nik Wallenda will attempt to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope -- the first such attempt in more than 100 years. University at Buffalo experts are available to discuss the nature of such spectacles, their role in popular culture, the Niagara mist plume, crowd psychology and the kinds of risks involved in this venture.
  • Historian Explores Overseas Racial Battles of Iconic American Boxer Jack Johnson
    5/22/12
    A new book about cocky, flamboyant, subversive boxing champion Jack Johnson -- the first black man to take the heavyweight crown -- goes beyond his infamous battles with Jim Crow, the seven-year search for a "Great White Hope" to defeat him, and even his unjust conviction under the Mann Act against white slave trafficking.
  • Three UB Students Win Prestigious Fulbright Awards
    5/21/12
    Three University at Buffalo students have received prestigious Fulbright Fellowships, the most recent class in what has become a UB tradition of multiple winners in the highly competitive, nationally-recognized scholarly competition.
  • For Highly Educated Women, Families Are an Increasingly Popular Option
    5/15/12
    An increasing number of highly educated women are opting for families, according to a national study co-authored by a University at Buffalo economist.
  • Buffalo Doctors Help Share Stories from Kashmir's Past and Present
    5/10/12
    A Kashmir native and current clinical associate professor of urology at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has launched the Ladi Shah Project, Kashmir's first digital oral history archive.
  • TAG and Charlie Clough -- Diggin' the Dirt, Tellin' the Tale
    5/9/12
    The Theoretical Archaeology Group -- TAG -- has been debating archaeological theory since 1979, first at universities throughout the UK and Scandinavia and, since 2008, at American institutions like Columbia, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago and the University at Buffalo, where it will hold its 2012 annual meeting, May 17-20.
  • UB Center for the Arts Executive Director Thomas Burrows Designated as a Distinguished Fellow by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare
    5/8/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo has announced that Executive Director Thomas Burrows has been designated as a Distinguished Fellow by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare. The honor was given at the organization's 23rd annual international conference, which took place May 2-5 in Detroit.
  • Media Advisory: Fluid Culture Invades Silo City
    5/7/12
    Fluid Culture, the 2011-12 arts, media and lecture series presented by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, will present a free, public waterfront-related arts event May 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Marine A Grain Elevator, at "Silo City" on Childs Street at the intersection of Ohio Street.