SWINGIN’ ON THE GREEN. Steve Lucky, Carmen Getit and the Rhumba Bums perform high-energy swing music Tuesday to kick off this year’s edition of UB on the Green. The summer concert series held on the Hayes Hall lawn on the South Campus will continue July 29 and Aug. 5 and 12, weather permitting. For more photos, click here. (Photo: Douglas Levere)
Cohen to head Jewish institute
University of North Carolina-Charlotte scholar Richard A. Cohen has been named director of UB’s new Institute for Jewish Thought and Heritage. » Full Story
French to head Baldy Center. UB faculty member and Buddhist legal scholar Rebecca Redwood French has been named director of the Law School’s Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
Berlin fitting for Obama speech. Although Berlin has changed since presidents Kennedy and Reagan delivered iconic remarks there, it remains a proper setting from which Barack Obama can deliver an important message about global relations, a UB historian says.
‘Sneaking’ drugs into the brain. A unique nanoparticle system developed by UB scientists ferries diagnostic and therapeutic agents across the blood-brain barrier.
Mutua addresses Pan-African conference. UB Law School Dean Makau Mutua spoke at a Pan-African conference devoted to administering justice to those responsible for sexual and gender-biased violence in countries besieged by conflict or civil unrest.
Worm offers view of cellular stress. UB researchers have created a mutant worm that changes color when it moves, providing scientists an indication of stress in cells.
Tracing the path of the North Campus. Some of the mysteries surrounding the location and design of the North Campus were the topic of yesterday’s UBThisSummer lecture.