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FELDER WINS ACADEMY AWARD FOR MUSIC FROM AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS Another notable distinction for one of America's finest contemporary composers
March 5, 2010 -- David Felder, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Birge-Cary Chair in Composition in the University at Buffalo Department of Music, widely regarded as one of America's finest composers of contemporary classical music, has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' 2010 Academy Award in Music.

ANCIENT TEXTS PRESENT MAYANS AS LITERARY GENIUSES Book elicits praise from scholars of Mayan culture throughout the world
March 5, 2010 -- Literary critics, cultural scholars and aficionados of the Mayans, the only fully literate people of the pre-Columbian Americas, have lined up to call the first fully illustrated survey of two millennia of Mayan texts assembled by award-winning scholar Dennis Tedlock, "stunning," "astounding," "groundbreaking" and "literally breathtaking."

"ARTPARK: 1974-84" -- A MAJOR UB GALLERY EXHIBITION TO OPEN IN SEPTEMBER Influential and innovative summer residency program remembered
February 9, 2010 -- The University at Buffalo Art Gallery will mount the exhibit "Artpark: 1974-84," the first comprehensive historical overview of the seminal years of the innovative Visual Artists Program at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y. 

JUNE IN BUFFALO 2010 ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM BEING PLANNED AT UB Faculty will include Steve Reich, Augusta Read Thomas and outstanding performance groups
January 8, 2010 -- June in Buffalo, the internationally celebrated festival and conference for emerging composers of new music, will celebrate its 35th anniversary this year and it has a treat in store for its audiences. 

Three UB Students Receive Fulbright Student Scholarships for 2009-10
November 11, 2009 - Catherine Dunning, of Poughquag, N.Y., is working as an English teaching assistant at École Normale Supèrieure, the Teacher's College of the newly established University of Maroua in Cameroon. She holds a bachelor's degree in English and French, with a minor in Spanish, and a master's degree in library science, all from UB.

UB LAUNCHES ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND MEDIA SYMPOSIUM IN NEW YORK CITY
November 10, 2009 - Multi-Emmy Award-winning Alan Zweibel to host launch event in the Friars Club.

"Verbal Montage" to Integrate Performance of Native Languages with Exhibition of Graphic Art
November 4, 2009 - The University at Buffalo will present Dennis Tedlock's performance of "Verbal Montage: Transcriptions and Translations from Native American Languages" on Nov. 11 as part of the fall 2009 Poetics Plus series.

UB film debuts at Lincoln Center
Nov 4, 2009 - “15 Days of Dance: The Making of ‘Ghost Light,’” a film by Emmy-award-winning artist and filmmaker Elliot Caplan that was produced and developed at UB, had its premiere screening recently at Lincoln Center. 

Polish Writer Adam Zagajewski to Present UB's 2009 Oscar Silverman Reading
October 27, 2009 - The University at Buffalo Department of English has announced that award-winning Polish poet, novelist and essayist Adam Zagajewski will present the 2009 Oscar Silverman Reading Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. in 250 Baird Hall on the UB North Campus. 

UB's Stratigakos' "A Woman's Berlin" Wins 2009 German Academic Book Award
October 20, 2009 - Despina Stratigakos, PhD, assistant professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and assistant professor of visual studies in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, has received the prestigious 2009 Book Prize from the DAAD (Deutcher Akadamischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service), a publicly funded independent organization of higher education institutions in Germany.

Violinist Oliveira in residence at UB
Sep 2, 2009 - World-renowned violinist Elmar Oliveira will visit UB next week as part of a five-day residency sponsored by the Department of Music that includes several public performances and a master class.

Video documenting work of UB choreographer
February 18, 2009 - Japanese artist Yuichiro Yamada says it took a law degree, a cinema degree, working on a film with his favorite director and months on a Toyota automobile assembly line to inspire him to come back to the U.S. to focus on his preferred medium, documentary video.

Majeski to serve Horne residency
February 4, 2009 - The Department of Music, in association with the Marilyn Horne Foundation, will host soprano Amanda Majeski for a four-day residency next week that will include visits to three local schools, a meeting with UB vocal students and other interested members of the UB community, and a formal recital of art song.

‘Poetics Plus’ offers variety of events
January 31, 2008 - “Poetics Plus,” a literary series presented by the Poetics Program in the Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences, returns this semester with a new lineup of notable poets, performances and events.

Linking modernism to pop culture
January 24, 2008 - It’s the groundbreaking writers who sprang from the cultural and political turmoil in America following World Wars I and II—from cultural giants such as T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to a long list of less-famous authors, poets and radicals—who ignite the interest of UB faculty member William Solomon.

Human trafficking topic of Humanities Institute conference
October 18, 2007 - Slavery, sex trade, child labor, child soldiers, forced migration, trading in body parts (including genetic material)—even many forms of international adoption—represent the practice of human trafficking. Read more...

A broader view of visual images
March 22, 2007 - As the first new faculty member to join the Department of Visual Studies since it was created from the merger of the departments of Art and Art History last spring, Nancy Anderson is on a mission to help UB become one of the first universities in North America to offer a doctorate in her department's unique and emerging field of study. 

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