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Lipsey’s photography featured in UB exhibit
A collection of more than 20 photographs by Buffalo News publisher Stanford Lipsey is now on display through Oct. 2 in UB’s Kaveeshwar Gallery on the fifth floor of Capen Hall, North Campus.
The exhibition, "Affinity of Form: Photographs by Stanford Lipsey," features images of nature and architecture, including large-scale prints on stretched canvas. The images focus on the natural and constructed worlds in which we live, searching out affinities in geometry, pattern, symmetry and light that connect those two worlds. The exhibition includes photographs documenting the designs of famous architects, including Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava.
Lipsey began his career as a photographer for his high school and college newspapers. His first professional position was as a photojournalist for the Sun newspapers in Omaha, Neb. He went on to become the paper's editor, publisher and owner before selling it to Warren Buffett.
The sight of a simple pinecone through a macro lens in Aspen, Colo., sparked Lipsey's passion for fine art photography 30 years ago. Since then, he has dedicated himself to revealing the visual language of the world hidden around us. His camera fixes frequently on surfaces, abstracting them in such a way that they become visual objects unto themselves, independent of their sources and newly compelling. Other images take a longer view, allowing monumental structures to revert to basic shapes.
Lipsey's work has been displayed in museums and galleries, among them the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The exhibition at UB is sponsored by the Office of the President and School of Architecture and Planning.
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Liturgy of Holy Spirit set for Sept. 19
The Newman Centers at UB will mark the opening of the 2010-11 academic year with the Annual Convocation and Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, to be held at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 19 in the Newman Center’s Catholic Campus Ministry Center, 495 Skinnersville Road, across from UB’s Creekside Village apartments on the North Campus.
During the convocation, the Newman Award, the highest honor given by the Newman Centers, will be presented to Edward P. Schneider, executive director of the UB Foundation, in recognition of his outstanding service to the university.
All members of the university community are invited to attend the convocation.
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UB receives top ‘Super Lawyer’ ranking
The UB Law School is No. 1 in Thomson Reuter’s “Super Lawyers” ranking of law graduates practicing in upstate New York, which includes 54 of the 62 counties in New York State. This is in addition to the UB Law School’s 2010 national ranking, where it placed 48th out of the 180 law schools in the country that produced Super Lawyers.
“We are thrilled that so many of our graduates have been selected as Super Lawyers,” said UB Law School Dean Makau Mutua. “It is a testament to their talents and outstanding work, and it speaks volumes about the commitment of our graduates to serve their clients and communities with distinction. This ranking reflects how our current legal skills curriculum, which is a cornerstone of our law school, prepares our students for their careers. We are very proud.”
Super Lawyers is publication of Thomson Reuters, the third-largest book publisher in the world with more than 55,000 employees in 100 countries. It is the major legal publisher in the United States.
Selection for Super Lawyers is based on 12 indicators of professional achievement and is compiled by the magazine’s research department. Its objective is to “create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing” of the top 5 percent of the lawyers in each state.
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UB’s online catalog receives high marks
UB’s online undergraduate catalog has been named one of the best in the country by a respected Internet marketing company focused on higher education.
The catalog was one of six recognized by .eduGuru for “really [setting] the bar for how to create a nicely usable catalog.” In particular, UB’s catalog was cited for ease of navigation.
The website notes that “examples of ‘good’ catalogs are few and far between,” in part because of the difficulties in making a print document effective online, particularly one of the largest, most important documents that a university publishes.
UB’s online undergraduate catalog has overcome the most prevalent obstacles.
“The core navigation is exceptionally simple, and the information is well structured,” the website says. “They have also integrated actual tools, like course search, right into the site, rather than just doing a cut-and-paste job from a print document. They also have fairly simple access to archived PDF versions of past catalogs.”
Scott Weber, vice provost and dean for undergraduate education, praised the numerous members of the university community who worked on the online undergraduate catalog for providing such an important service to UB’s students.
“Many UB faculty and staff contributed to the online catalog’s success by providing advice, feedback and content suggestions to the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and our Office of Web Services, lead by Mark Greenfield,” he said. “I would like to sincerely thank all those who helped make UB’s undergraduate catalog website a leader in this important area.”
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Confucius Institute to sponsor talk
Jonathan Spence, British-born historian, public intellectual and one of America’s pre-eminent China scholars, will present a free public talk at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 in Buffalo’s City Honors School.
The lecture will be sponsored by the Alison L. Des Forges Memorial Fund and UB’s Confucius Institute, part of the university’s Asian Studies Program. Co-sponsors include the Buffalo Public Schools, the UB Department of History and the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the UB Law School.
Stephen C. Dunnett, UB vice provost for international education, and Buffalo School Superintendent James A. Williams will be among the honored guests at the lecture.
Spence, who served as Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008, is well-known for bringing history to life for thousands of readers of his popular books and for the many students who attended his university classes and public lectures.
Author of the groundbreaking bestseller “The Search for Modern China,” which remains a standard text on the last several hundred years of Chinese history, Spence has been the recipient of many honors in his distinguished career, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
His talk, “Matteo Ricci and His Legacy in China: The Perils of Success,” will examine the impact of Ricci, an early Jesuit envoy to China, a founding figure of the 17th-18th century Jesuit China Mission and one of the first Westerners to learn classical Chinese.
Spence will be joined in Buffalo by his wife, Annping Chin, herself a noted author and historian of China. She will present a free public talk at UB, “Living with the Enemy: Insights from the Manchurian Diary of Jin Yufu, 1931-1935,” at noon on Sept. 22 in 509 O’Brian Hall, North Campus.
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