Events
Classics Open House
On March 26th, the Classics Department will be hosting an open house for area high school students and teachers from 9:00am until 1:00pm in the Goetz Library/Fillmore room 320 of the UB Millard Fillmore Academic Complex [MFAC]. Read more here...
Anthropology Guest Lecture
On March 29th and 30th, the Department of Anthropology will host Dr. Bettina Arnold from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She will give two presentations - the first will be for graduate students on Thursday, March 29th at 3:30pm in Millard Fillmore Academic Complex [MFAC] 355, and the second will a public lecture on Friday, March 30th at 4:00pm in MFAC 351, followed by a reception in the Totem Pole Room. Read more here...
News
New Division of Transnational Studies
The College of Arts and Sciences has announced it is creating a Division of Transnational Studies in an effort to further connections between several of the college's departments and programs. The division, to be launched in the fall and directed by Keith Griffler, chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, will include the departments of African and African American Studies, American Studies and Global Gender Studies, and the programs in Canadian Studies, Caribbean Cultural Studies, Latina/Latino Studies and Polish Studies. Read more here...
UB Geographers Help Map Devastation in Haiti
In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, University at Buffalo geography students are participating in a global effort to enhance the international response and recovery effort by helping to assess damage, using images hosted by Google Earth and the Virtual Disaster Viewer, which shares imagery of disasters from various sources. Eight graduate and undergraduate students are conducting the research, under the direction of Chris Renschler, UB associate professor of geography, in his Landscape-based Environmental Systems Analysis and Modeling Laboratory (LESAM) in UB's Department of Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences. Read more here...
UB Biologists Discover Enzyme Degrades Protein that Suppresses or Promotes Cancer
University at Buffalo biologists have identified an enzyme that degrades an important protein present in cancers of both adults and children. "This is the first study to show that treatment of cultured cancer cells with chemotherapeutic drugs can cause destruction of the Wilms' tumor 1 by an enzyme called HtrA2/Omi," says Stefan Roberts, PhD, assistant professor of biological sciences in the UB College of Arts and Sciences and lead author on the paper. Read more here...
