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  • Music Department Announces March Concert Lineup
    2/22/07
    March concerts planned by the Department of Music will include "Piano Music and Comedy," in which Magnus Martensson, visiting assistant professor of music and music director of the UB Symphony Orchestra and the Slee Sinfonietta, will present another side of his musical talent.
  • UB Art Gallery to Host Exhibition of First-Year MFA Students
    2/21/07
    "OCTET," an exhibition of artwork by first-year MFA students from the Department of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo, will open on March 1 with a reception from 5-7 p.m. in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Evidence, A Dance Company to perform March 23 in CFA
    2/21/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Evidence, A Dance Company at 8 p.m. on March 23 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The company will also be in residence March 5-23.
  • "Poetics Plus" Sets Lineup
    2/19/07
    "Poetics Plus," the poetry series presented by the Poetics Program in the Department of English in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, is back this semester with another lineup of notable poets.
  • Book Examines Reinventing the Ideal of the Black Man
    2/15/07
    A just-published collection of essays, "Progressive Black Masculinities," edited by Athena D. Mutua, associate professor in the University at Buffalo Law School, focuses on reinventing the ideal of the black man, suggesting new models that transcend the cultural racism and violence of the old ideal.
  • Nevergold Receives State's MLK Humanitarian Award
    2/12/07
    Barbara Nevergold, Ph.D., is one of five individuals to be honored this year by the State of New York with a 2007 Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award. The award is one of the state's highest honors for humanitarian service and pays tribute to New Yorkers who have made major contributions to human and civil rights.
  • Children of the Holocaust -- Film Considers Their "Hidden Things"
    2/7/07
    Award-winning filmmaker Elliot B. Caplan will open the Spring 2007 Humanities Institute Lecture Series at the University at Buffalo with his new feature-length documentary film, "Hidden Things: A Children's Story."
  • Cutting Edge Lecture Series Looks at Murder, Global Warming, Digitized Art and Architecture, World Poverty
    2/6/07
    Top University at Buffalo professors will make presentations aimed at increasing public awareness of rapidly advancing fields in the 2007 Cutting Edge Lecture Series, five Saturday-morning seminars sponsored by UB's College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Major European Exhibit Devoted to UB's Pioneering Media Study Department
    2/2/07
    "The significance of the Department of Media Study at Buffalo for the media age is comparable to the influence of other historical institutions of art history such as Black Mountain College in North Carolina or the Bauhaus." Those words introduce a major exhibition at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, which has a worldwide reputation as a cultural institution.
  • Sensitivity to Rejection Based on Appearance Bad for Mental, Physical Health
    1/25/07
    Three new studies by a University at Buffalo psychologist offer the first known evidence that some people anxiously expect that they will be rejected by others because of their physical appearance, and that this sensitivity, if not mitigated, has serious implications for their mental and physical health.