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"Verbal Montage" to Integrate Performance of Native Languages with Exhibition of Graphic Art
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.
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Annual Art Exhibition Celebrates Work of Recent Grads
Three exceptional artists, recent graduates of the University at Buffalo Department of Visual Studies, will be featured in the exhibition, "Noncommittal: A Prospective Glance 2," Nov. 5 to Dec. 12 in the UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, North Campus.
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Polish Writer Adam Zagajewski to Present UB's 2009 Oscar Silverman Reading
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.
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UB Researcher is Part of $13 Million Grant from NCI to Cornell University to Establish a New Microenvironment and Metastasis Research Center
Gail Seigel, PhD, research assistant professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Physiology and Biophysics, will be part of a group of researchers taking part in the new National Cancer Institute-funded Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, which will be headquartered at Cornell University.
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UB's Stratigakos' "A Woman's Berlin" Wins 2009 German Academic Book Award
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.
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UB Professor to Receive 2009 Schoellkopf Award
John P. Richard, PhD, University at Buffalo professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been chosen to receive the 2009 Jacob F. Schoellkopf Award.
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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.
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Despite Risk, Older African Americans More Likely Than Others To Avoid Flu Vaccine
A study about why African American seniors do or do not get influenza vaccinations finds that many of them do not have accurate and complete information about the flu itself, the safety and efficacy of the inoculations, and the ease and necessity of getting the shots.
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Caplan Film Developed at UB, to Debut at Lincoln Center Oct. 22
A film by Emmy-award winning artist and filmmaker Elliot Caplan, "15 Days of Dance: The Making of 'Ghost Light,'" produced and developed at the University at Buffalo, will receive its premiere screening this month at Lincoln Center.
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By Simulating Gullies, Geographers Discover Ways to Tame Soil Erosion
Dead zones in critical waterways, accelerated loss of arable land and massive famines. They're all caused by the 24 billion tons of soil that are lost every year to erosion, a phenomenon that costs the world as much as $40 billion annually. But predicting where erosion occurs, and thus how to prevent it, is a serious challenge. That's why University at Buffalo geographer Sean Bennett has constructed various systems to model it.
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