Events

UB Coast to Coast – Alumni Entertainment & Media Symposium, June 27 & 28th 2009, Santa Monica

Both behind and in front of cameras - as writers, producers, journalists, legal experts and more - University at Buffalo alumni have forged exceptional careers in media and entertainment. Read more here...

Lying to Me: Deception Myths and Realities

Popular television crime dramas, including CSI, The Mentalist, and Lie to Me, put forward a great deal of information about the secret signals associated with human expressive behavior.  As part of the 2009 UBThisSummer Lecture Series, associate professor Mark Frank from UB's Communication Department will discuss common beliefs, as well as realities, associated with deceptive behavior and their ultimate utility in the real world on August 5th at 4pm in the Natural Sciences Complex room 225. Read more here...

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News

UB's Bacigalupo Named 2009-10 Resident Fellow of the National Humanities Center

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology in UB's College of Arts and Sciences, a scholar recognized for her research into the shamanic practices of Chile's Mapuche Indians, has been named a 2009-10 Fellow of the National Humanities Center (NHC) in North Carolina's Research Triangle. Read more here...

UB Faculty Members Win National Book Awards in Their Fields

Ramya Sreenivasan, Ph.D., of Buffalo, assistant professor of history in UB's College of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for "The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in Indian History, c. 1500-1900" (University of Washington Press 2007). Read more here...

To Fight Drug Addiction, UB Researchers Target the Brain with Nanoparticles

Scientists in UB's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and UB's Department of Medicine have developed a stable nanoparticle that delivers short RNA molecules in the brain to "silence" or turn off a gene that plays a critical role in many kinds of drug addiction. Paras N. Prasad, Ph.D., executive director of the UB Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and SUNY Distinguished Professor in the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Medicine, led the UB team. Read more here...