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  • Suspension Bridges, a Home for Snakes, 3-D Window Shades
    1/6/12
    With the assistance of Buffalo-area professional architects, their teachers and University at Buffalo architecture and planning students, elementary school children in several City of Buffalo schools have worked all semester to come up with a treat for you.
  • Media Advisory: 212th Birthday of Millard Fillmore to be Commemorated
    1/5/12
    The University at Buffalo will once again honor its first chancellor and the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, in a ceremony to take place at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 6, at Fillmore's gravesite in Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery.
  • UB Confucius Institute, Chinese Club of WNY to Celebrate Chinese New Year Jan. 28
    1/4/12
    The University at Buffalo Confucius Institute (UBCI), in partnership with the Chinese Club of Western New York (CCWNY), will present an exciting Chinese New Year celebration, full of color and music, on Jan. 28, 2:30-4:30 p.m., in the Mainstage Theatre, UB Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • Eight UB Inventions from 2011 That You Won't Want to Miss
    12/23/11
    University at Buffalo researchers racked up a diverse list of inventions in 2011, spanning fields from medical imaging to green energy. As of mid-December, UB was issued 14 new U.S. patents and filed 43 provisional patent applications in 2011.
  • Selling Anxiety: True Crime Lit is Both Good and Bad for Us, Says UB Scholar
    12/21/11
    From Lizzie Borden to "In Cold Blood," "Helter Skelter," "Lobster Boy" and Ann Rule's creepy cautionary tales, the popularity of true crime literature, television and film helps drive our perception of the U.S. as a much more dangerous place than it is.
  • Media Advisory: Elementary Students Solve Architectural Problems, Demonstrate Design, Construction, Testing of Bridges as Part of Buffalo Architecture + Education Program
    12/14/11
    On Friday, Dec. 16, members of the media are invited to view two in-school projects conducted this semester through the 10-year-old Buffalo Architecture Foundation's Architecture + Education program.
  • Humanities Institute Scholar Session Honors Bruce Jackson
    10/28/11
    Acclaimed folklorist, documentary filmmaker and photographer Bruce Jackson will be honored at the 2011 Scholar Session presented by the University at Buffalo's Humanities Institute on Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
  • Poet Philip Schultz to Present 2011 Oscar Silverman Reading
    10/27/11
    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Rochester native Philip Schultz will present the University at Buffalo's 2011 Oscar Silverman Reading on Friday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. in 250 Baird Hall on UB's North Campus.
  • LANGUAGE TO COVER A WALL: Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media
    10/27/11
    Just when you thought you'd seen it all "visual poetry" flies onto the scene with everything from Pueblo Indian petroglyphs (circa 1350-1680), contemporary concrete poems, eye poems, typestracts (abstract typewriter art), poem-objects and media-savvy digital poems presented by a wide range of writer/artists working in many media.
  • UB Architecture Lecture Postponed
    10/11/11
    The Oct. 12 Martel Distinguished Critic Lecture by French architect Philippe Rahm, to have taken place at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall on the University at Buffalo South Campus, has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a date and time TBA. The lecture is sponsored by the UB School of Architecture and Planning.