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Name: Sarah Bay-Cheng
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Theatre and Dance, Media Study
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: B.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Areas of Special Interest: Avant-garde theatre and film, gender and sexuality in performance, popular culture media
Two significant challenges facing the field of theatre studies are the perceived divide between theoretical-historical study and the practice of theatre and performance, and the challenge of media to live performance. Although often positioned as opposites-theory against practice, media against live performance-I see all of these performative elements as mutually enriching and interdependent strands of performance study. The goal of my research is to find the points of intersection among different media and theories in order to enrich both the reception and production of new, innovative creative work.
Name: Michael Greenblatt
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Mathematics
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: B.S., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Princeton
Areas of Special Interest: Analysis, resolution of singularities, Carnot-Caratheodory geometry
My current projects involve trying to find new and improved ways of describing the solutions to polynomial and other algebraic equations, and understanding the relation between elliptic and subelliptic PDEs (partial differential equations).
Name: Charles Lyons
School: University Libraries
Department: Arts and Sciences Libraries
Academic Title: Senior Assistant Librarian (Business/Management Librarian)
Academic Degrees: B.A., Colby College; M.S. in library and information science, Drexel University
Areas of Special Interest: Competitive intelligence, business information literacy, digital libraries
I was attracted to UB because the UB Libraries are really focused on improving services and collections for the UB community. They've done a good job enhancing both traditional services, such as expanding hours and renovating facilities, and newer services, like increasing access to online resources, expanding wireless network and virtual reference.