Mame-Fatou Niang, a visiting scholar studying Blackness in contemporary France, is teaching a seminar this semester as the Melodia E. Jones Endowed Chair.
Faculty experts weigh in on trending topics. Their views and opinions are based on their expertise and research, and do not represent the official positions of UB.
UB law professor Athena Mutua's paper in a UCLA journal asserts ultraconservatives aim to undermine multi-racial democracy by attacking faculty and academic institutions.
UB scholar Bakari Kitwana talks about the link between the most powerful American cultural force of the past 50 years and the most powerful position on the planet.
The designation by the International Association for Pattern Recognition honors the UB computer scientist for his work in digital media forensics, computer vision and machine learning.