August

Curiosity prompted a select group of Western New York teachers to explore all this and more this summer though the EarthEd Institute, a unique opportunity for public middle and high school educators to spend time at UB and learn from expert faculty.

Can an oyster listen? What kind of sound environment is needed for oysters to thrive? Those are the kinds of questions UB faculty member Stephanie Rothenberg is exploring in a new art exhibit.

While Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian maintain that movies are meant to be seen on the big screen, in the company of others, the series’ online screenings and discussions during the past two years have opened the series to viewers who would otherwise not have the opportunity to participate.

Kari Winter, professor of global gender and sexuality studies, is writing a screenplay for a four-part television miniseries that she hopes will bring the life of Jeffrey Brace, an enslaved man who obtained his freedom through military service in the American Revolution, to an entirely new audience.

Now in its fifth year, the Social Impact Fellows program brings together students from the School of Management, School of Social Work and College of Arts and Sciences to create social innovation in Western New York. Working in teams of three with one graduate student from each school, the fellows collaborate to research a problem facing a community organization.

From the slime coating slugs to the saliva in our mouths, many slippery bodily fluids contain mucus. So how did this marvel of biology evolve?

The final UB Summer Dance class ends in laughter, cheers, hugs and tears. Something extraordinary just happened. Those in the room could sense it. Expressions, movements, attention and focus throughout the 30 students went from expected to something much more moving. Mid-afternoon, those students are breathing hard, radiating a sense they had been through something together and were better because of it.