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  • UB to host block party

    UB will host a Neighbors Day Block Party and Safety Fair on Sunday to give students and longtime residents of University Heights an opportunity to mingle and learn how they can protect their neighborhood.

    The free event, which kicks off at 3 p.m. on the lawn along Main Street, will feature live music and complimentary food for the first 1,000 attendees. City and university officials are scheduled to give short speeches. Local businesses, government agencies and other organizations will have booths.

    UB’s Wellness Education Services will provide information on drinking responsibly. University Police will help residents engrave valuables with an identification number, a precaution that could help deter burglars, says Dan Ryan, director of Off-campus Student Services.

    “It’s important for us to try to make sure we deliver messages about safety, to make our students and our residents safe in the environment in which they live,” Ryan says. “It’s also very important that we provide these kinds of non-threatening opportunities for students and lifelong residents to interact, get to know each other and build community.

    For more information on the block party and fair, contact Ryan at dryan@buffalo.edu or 829-3536.

  • Molo to open architecture lecture series

    The School of Architecture and Planning will open its fall lecture series Sept. 9 with an illustrated talk by Stephanie Forsythe and Todd McAllen of Molo Design, the critically acclaimed, Vancouver-based collaborative design-and-production studio that designs both buildings and products.

    The talk, which will be free and open to the public, will take place at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall, South Campus.

    The award-winning Molo designers were selected by UB students for their annual Architecture Students Lecture.

    Molo is well known for its architectural work, as well as for innovative research into the use of materials and designs for a wide range of products that have been developed for clients around the world.

    They include handmade “float” fritted glassware and expandable lamps composed of flexible, but durable, honeycomb craft paper that can be lifted or pushed into a variety of positions. Molo also has designed a series of multi-functional structures made of paper that can be used as furniture, lighting or to enclose spaces.

    Molo is known as well for its larger projects. Among them is Aomori Nebuta House, a museum and living culture center housing one of Japan’s largest festivals, and the Northern Sky Circle in Alaska, an ephemeral, outdoor room consisting of tall walls of snow and ice formed into two concentric circles.

  • Talking Leaves to host book-signing

    Paul Zarembka, professor in the Department of Economics, College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss and sign copies of his new book, “The Hidden History of 9-11,” at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 in Talking Leaves Books, 3158 Main St., Buffalo.

    The event is free and open to the public.

    “The Hidden History of 9-11” looks at the official record of the World Trade Center bombing and other events of the day and asks serious, difficult questions about what happened and about the official accounts of the day.

    For more information, contact Jonathon Welch at Talking Leaves, at 837-8554 or tleaves@tleavesbooks.com.

  • Students can rent textbooks

    The University Bookstore has launched Rent-A-Text, a new textbook-rental program, for the fall semester.

    Approximately 500 titles—one quarter of the store's fall inventory of course materials—are eligible for the program, which will run through Dec. 1 for the fall semester. Students may rent textbooks at 42.5 percent of the current new price, whether the book is new or used, and must return their rented materials by Dec. 22, based on the contractual agreement signed at the point of transaction.

    The University Bookstore's Rent-A-Text program is part of a nationwide pilot introduced by Follett Higher Education Group (FHEG) and includes about a dozen other college stores from among the 857 in the FHEG network.

    “We believe that students demand and expect choices in their purchases of textbooks and course materials, and Rent-A-Text will provide still another viable option for acquiring these materials at a substantial savings,” says Greg Neumann, manager of the University Bookstore.

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