Events
Foster Chemistry Colloquium
On Friday, November 20th at 4pm, as part of its' Fall 2009 Foster Chemistry Colloquium, the Chemistry Department presents "Design of Novel Soft Matters with Inspirations from Catalysis and Biology" in the Natural Sciences Complex, room 220. Read more here...
Brown Bag Concert Series
On Tuesday, December 1st at 12:05pm, the Music Department will hold its
December Brown Bag Concert
in Slee Hall. Bring your lunch to this free event, enjoy free Tim Horton's coffee, and receive a voucher fot 2 tickets to an upcoming UB Department of Music event! Read more here...
Biological Sciences Seminar
On Thursday, December 3rd at 4pm, assistant professor Matthew Xu-Friedman from the Biological Sciences Department will present a talk titled, "Information Processing at an Auditory Synapse" in the Natural Sciences Complex, room 218. Read more here...
News
UB's Stratigakos' "A Woman's Berlin" Wins 2009 German Academic Book Award
Despina Stratigakos, Ph.D., assistant professor of visual studies, has received the prestigious 2009 Book Prize from the DAAD (Deutcher Akadamischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service). Stratigakos was honored for her 2008 book "A Woman's Berlin: Building the Modern City", in which she examines the era between 1871 and 1918 when women took control of Berlin's spaces and laid the foundation for a novel experience of urban modernity. Read more here...
Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is Unlike Natural Variation
The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to evidence in a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published today. The research reveals that sediments retrieved by University at Buffalo geologists from a remote Arctic lake are unlike those seen during previous warming episodes. Read more here...
UB Receives Grant to Expand South Asian Studies Program
The Asian Studies Program at the University at Buffalo has received a two-year, $172,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand the university's undergraduate course offerings, academic exchanges and events related to South Asia. Read more here...
