Social Sciences

News about UB’s social sciences programs, including anthropology, psychology and social work. (see all topics)

  • Hess Transportation Study Wins "Best Paper Competition"
    2/12/07
    Daniel Hess, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has won the 2006 Best Paper Competition sponsored by the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) at City University of New York.
  • Bequest Gift Provides Scholarships for Social Work Students
    2/12/07
    Future students who are seeking a degree from the University at Buffalo School of Social Work will have access to more scholarship assistance, thanks to a bequest gift for $423,701 from alumna Jean Schumacher Cook.
  • Psychologist Says Neurochemical Processes Explain Romantic Attraction
    2/10/07
    A University at Buffalo psychologist says it's a series of neurochemical processes and external stimuli that that have to come together in a precise way -- not aphrodisiacs and other elements --that explain the beginning of a romantic relationship.
  • Shibley Named to Federal Erie Canal Heritage Commission
    2/7/07
    Robert Shibley, professor of architecture and planning, as well as director of The Urban Design Project in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne to serve a three-year term on the Federal Commission on the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.
  • 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."
  • Series Features Leading American, Spanish and British Architects
    2/6/07
    The School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, which annually brings more than 20 major national and international architects and regional and urban planners to Buffalo as speakers, has announced its 2007 Spring Lecture Series. They include stars in the architectural firmament from the U.S., Spain and Britain.
  • 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.
  • Proposals for "Universal Art Center" Subject of UB Exhibit
    2/6/07
    "Southpoint: from Ruin to Rejuvenation," is a traveling exhibition of jury-selected entries in a 2006 competition for proposals for a Universal Arts Center on the site of the Renwick Smallpox Hospital ruin in Southpoint Park on New York City's Roosevelt Island. The exhibition, which opened the Spring 2007 Exhibition Series sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, will run through Feb. 16 in the school's James Dyett Gallery.
  • 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.
  • Research Links Change in Brain with Addiction
    2/1/07
    A researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions has found a change in the brain that occurs after drug use and that may contribute to drug addiction.