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CFA presents Alumni Dance Concert
The Center for the Arts will present Back to Buffalo 4: UB Alumni Dance Concert at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Drama Theatre in the CFA, North Campus.
The performance is sponsored in part by the UB Alumni Association.
Featuring an eclectic group of dancers, the Back to Buffalo 4: UB Alumni Dance Concert, now in its 4th year, is dedicated to celebrating accomplished UB Theatre & Dance alumni. With a variety of styles and backgrounds, the UB alumni will present solo works in a creative and powerful night of dance.
The evening also will feature lighting designs by UB Theatre & Dance alumni and a special performance, courtesy of LehrerDance, by current students in the Zodiaque Dance Company.
All proceeds from the performance will benefit the spring 2012 dance residency at the Center for the Arts. The Dance Residency Outreach Program helps bring professional dance companies into area schools and affords UB dance majors the opportunity to take part in master classes with professional artists.
Master classes also will be available on Sept. 23. Visit the CFA’s website for registration details.
Tickets for the concert are $26.50 for general admission and $11.50 for students and children. Tickets are available at the CFA box office and at all Ticketmaster locations, including Ticketmaster.com.
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CEL moves to UB Downtown Gateway
The School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) has a new home in the UB Downtown Gateway.
The CEL, which promotes business growth through leadership development and experiential learning, has moved from its former location in the Jacobs Executive Development Center (also known as the Butler Mansion) to newly renovated space in the Gateway at 77 Goodell St. in downtown Buffalo.
“This strategic move brings the CEL into the heart of a region where innovation is flourishing,” says Arjang Assad, dean of the School of Management. “The Gateway’s proximity to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and UB’s downtown research enterprises will allow easier collaboration between the CEL and the area’s burgeoning life sciences companies.”
The UB Downtown Gateway provides space for community outreach, service and research programs with a public orientation. These include the Office of Economic Engagement; Department of Family Medicine; the Regional Institute; UBMD, the physician practice plan of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; and Millard Fillmore College, which offers continuing education for adults.
The move is another step in CEL’s plan to expand both the scope and reach of its activities, thanks in part to a $525,000 investment by UB and the School of Management.
“Both the new location and the additional funding are an outstanding opportunity to strengthen the center and take things to the next level for the benefit of the region’s entrepreneurs,” says Tom Ulbrich, executive director of the CEL.
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‘Gender abolitionist’ to speak
Internationally acclaimed photographer Del LaGrace Volcano will speak at 8 p.m. Sept. 20 in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, as part of the Leslie+Lohman Queer Art Lecture Series.
The lecture series is presented by UB’s Department of Visual Studies in partnership with the Leslie+Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and Hallwalls.
It is dedicated to queer art and artists, showcasing the most significant contemporary queer artists with an emphasis on exploring the relationship between their sexuality and their art. Each of the lectures in the series also is presented at the Leslie+Lohman museum in New York City.
Del LaGrace Volcano’s art consistently subverts our expectations, queering either/or categories in favor of both/and: s/he is at once photographer and sitter, American and European, a she and a he, or better, intersexed.
Volcano’s art asks the kind of questions that make all answers irrelevant because the truth is in the asking, not the answer. Deploying the queer body and its contradictory signs of identification, Volcano’s art plays with constructions of gender, sexuality and race, recasting embodiment from a brute fact of nature to a creative exercise of will.
A proud “abolitionist,” Volcano asks why we are so invested in exclusively binary accounts of identity—male or female, black or white, LGBTQ or straight—when we could, instead, support a more inclusive, humane and encompassing blurring of all such categories.
“Volcano’s work, while widely hailed abroad, has received almost no attention by major museums in the U.S., which tend to ignore or marginalize those whose work engages issues of gender and sexuality,” says Jonathan D. Katz, director of UB’s Visual Studies PhD program, president of the Leslie+Lohman Museum and curator of the series. “The Queer Art Lecture Series provides a forum to highlight these artists and give voice to the critical issues that their work explores.”
Widely exhibited in Europe for more than 30 years, Volcano’s appearance in Buffalo, in connection with a mid-career retrospective at the Leslie+Lohman museum, represents his/her first major U.S. museum exhibit and lecture.
A Q & A will follow the lecture.
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Campus Tees named official licensed merchandise provider to UB offices
UB’s Office of Trademarks and Licensing has named Campus Tees the official provider of licensed UB-branded merchandise for all UB offices, departments and clubs.
Campus Tees, the retail arm of UB Campus Dining & Shops, operates the Campus Tees retail store in the Student Union, as well as an online UB merchandise website and other campus convenience shops.
Every year, UB Campus Dining & Shops contributes millions of dollars to UB campus programs and services.
Earlier this year, Campus Tees became an Advertising Specialty Institute-authorized distributor for ad specialties and promotional products, allowing the preferred retail partner to work directly with manufacturers of branded merchandise. This new certification will give campus offices and groups access to the widest variety of products at unmatched prices. And for UB departments with the need for large quantities of merchandise, Campus Tees can store items on campus and assist with logistics and warehousing, making ordering fast and easy.
In an effort to make branded merchandise ordering easier for its campus customers, Campus Tees has launched a new website to help customers find the right products to help them increase brand awareness, recognize achievement, promote an event and much more.
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Rao receives international honor
H. Raghav Rao, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Management, has received international recognition for his research excellence.
An article co-authored by Rao received a Citation of Excellence award for 2012 from Emerald Management Reviews.
The award, presented by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, recognizes the 50 most outstanding articles published by the world’s top 300 management journals based on their proven impact since publication.
Rao’s article, “A Trust-Based Consumer Decision-Making Model in Electronic Commerce: The Role of Trust, Perceived Risk and their Antecedents,” appeared in the journal Decision Support Systems in 2008. It was chosen for the award from among Emerald’s vast database of more than 300,000 journal articles.
“This is an extraordinary achievement and one of the highest accolades an author can receive,” says Arjang Assad, dean of the School of Management. “It is a testament to Professor Rao’s continued excellence in research and publishing.”
A faculty member in the Department of Management Science and Systems, Rao co-authored the article with Dan Kim, an associate professor of information technology and decision sciences at the University of North Texas who received his doctorate from the UB in 2003, and Donald Ferrin, a professor of organizational behavior and human resources at Singapore Management University.
Emerald Group Publishing Limited is a leading independent publisher of global research with impact in business, society, public policy and education.
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