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Costume shop opens doors for student designers

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Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · 15d

Behind the scenes, building careers! ✨👗🎭

In the #UBuffalo Department of Theatre and Dance's Costume Shop, students design and construct hundreds of costumes each season under the guidance of alum and assistant professor, Max Levitt.

Costume shop manager Max Levitt helps showcase student creativity — from concept to curtain.

WNY becomes living lab for students studying climate hazards

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Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · 19d

This summer, #UBuffalo students turned WNY into a climate lab!

With guidance from professor Sophie Nowicki, 15 students studied Lake Erie ice, shoreline erosion and past climate shifts, tackling challenges facing the Great Lakes and beyond.

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UB and universities nationwide investigated climate hazards and extreme weather. Over 10 weeks, 15 students worked with UB researchers on projects tackling the complex challenges of global climate cha...

Tripathi to step down as UB president

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University at Buffalo @ubuffalo.bsky.social · 22d

After 14-plus years, UB President Satish K. Tripathi has announced he will step down in July 2026. As the longest-serving president of UB since it joined the SUNY system in 1962, Tripathi helped cement #UBuffalo as a premier public research university. Learn more ⬇️

The longest-serving president to lead UB since it joined the SUNY system in 1962 will step down next July and return to his faculty role in the engineering school.

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Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · 21d

We’re excited to welcome new #UBuffalo faculty this fall!

⚖️ Sojung Lim - Korean Studies and Sociology and Criminology
⚛️ Jamir Marino - Physics
🌎 Eric Sandvol - Earth Sciences
📚 Genie JH Yoo - History

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Shaping climate education through the humanities

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · 26d

#UBuffalo is bringing climate science to the stage! 🌎🎭🌿

Faculty in the Departments of Environment and Sustainability (EVS) and Theatre and Dance are using theatre to spark big conversations about climate change and resilience.

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A collaboration between the sciences and the humanities at UB has led to an innovative way to share important climate change information.

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Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · 29d

🗓️ Mark your calendars!
The 2025 Buffalo Humanities Festival is Sept. 19–20.
This year’s theme: Fabrication — from creativity & craft to deception & truth.

🔵 Sept. 19: An Evening with Nick Cave
🔵 Sept. 20: Panels & talks at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

Register ➡️ buffalohumanities.org

UB research driving comprehensive educational reform in Nigeria

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Sep 5

Transforming education in Nigeria! 🌍

#UBuffalo associate professor Ndubueze Mbah received a $75,000 Spencer Foundation Vision Grant that will help create 260 project-based “Smart Green Schools" in the Enugu State of Nigeria.

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A Spencer Foundation Vision Grant awarded to UB professor Ndubueze Mbah is already producing tangible results.

Welcome from Dean Jeff Grabill

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Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Aug 29

A warm welcome from Dean Jeff Grabill 💙🦬

He kicks off the new year with a message full of excitement for the ideas, connections and discoveries ahead at #UBuffalo.

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Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Aug 28

Congrats to Kristin Poinar, UB Earth Sciences, on receiving the 2025 NSF CAREER Award! 🏔️🧊

Her project uses AI to make ice sheet models faster and more accurate, helping predict sea-level rise.

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We now have the math to describe ‘matrix tides’ and other complex wave patterns

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Aug 20

Checkerboard waves? 🌊 They’re called matrix tides.

UB math professor Gino Biondini and his team used simulations to crack the code behind these rare patterns—revealing nature’s hidden rhythms.

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A UB study characterizes two-dimensional wave patterns, such as the undular bores seen in a Chinese river, that move along two directions.

First-of-their-kind ‘AI + X’ degrees to be offered at UB this fall

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Aug 14

The College of Arts and Sciences is thrilled to be able to offer AI-focused degrees this fall!

University at Buffalo @ubuffalo.bsky.social · Aug 14

Redefining #AI education 💡#UBuffalo is blending AI with the humanities and social sciences to prepare students for tomorrow’s challenges, fueled by a $5M investment from New York State. Learn more 🔽

The new programs will prepare students to use AI in other disciplines in collaboration with the new Department of AI and Society.

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Multimillion-dollar grant will help UB project ice sheet loss, sea level rise

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jul 25

#UBuffalo Professor Sophie Nowicki was awarded $2.1M to lead ISMIP7—a global project combining ice sheet, ocean and climate models to better predict sea-level rise.

100+ scientists are working together to understand how fast Antarctica and Greenland are melting, and what that means for our coasts.

The funding allows earth sciences researcher Sophie Nowicki to continue leading an international ice sheet modeling project.

UB again ranks among nation’s best in sustainability measures

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jul 22

No matter where you look, #UBuffalo shines through. 💙📸

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Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jul 21

#UBuffalo has been named a global leader in sustainability in the 2024 Times Higher Ed Impact Rankings — recognized for advancing climate action, clean energy, and responsible consumption. 🌎💙

UB excels in Times Higher Education's rankings of global health, climate action and sustainability research.

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Six UB students receive Fulbright awards

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jul 10

Six #UBuffalo Arts and Sciences students are headed abroad with Fulbright awards! 🌍✈️

They’ll teach, research and study across the globe—from Austria to Jordan, Taiwan to the Canary Islands.

Congrats to James, Olivia, Laibah, Jaden, Constance and Taylor!

The students join the university's long history of sending students to take part in the prestigious program.

UB student awarded NASA fellowship to map biodiversity in South Africa

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Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jul 8

Congrats to #UBuffalo PhD student Festus Adegbola, studying Geography with a concentration in Earth Systems Science, on earning the prestigious NASA FINESST Fellowship! 🌍🚀

He is using remote-sensing tech to study biodiversity from above, and now has NASA’s support to keep going.

Festus Adegbola’s work on the BioSCape project monitors — from the air — how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jul 8

If you're working on a new energy technology and want to learn how to bring it to market, consider applying for the NSF I-Corps Energy Innovators Course, running from August 18 to September 17! ⚡🔌 💡

Apply today: www.tfaforms.com/5172906

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Economics | University at Buffalo @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social · Jul 4

There is still time to sign up for one of our Summer Session M classes (Jul 8 - Aug 15)!

We are offering Intro to Microeconomics, Macroeconomic Theory, and Econometrics I.

Check out pub.hub.buffalo.edu for more info!

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White named artistic director of Clarion Concerts

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jul 1

Grammy-winning violinist and #UBuffalo music professor Melissa White is the new artistic director of Clarion Concerts!🎻

She’s bringing fresh energy to classical music—highlighting Black composers, launching school outreach, and creating hands-on opportunities for students.

The award, given every three years, is presented to only a handful of scholars.

Study reveals ‘switch-like’ behavior for hundreds of genes with links to human disease

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Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jun 30

#UBuffalo researchers found nearly 500 human genes that act like light switches—either fully on or off! 💡🧬

Led by Omer Gokcumen, Alber Aqil & Naoki Masuda, the study blends math + biology to uncover genetic patterns linked to fertility, COVID-19, cancer & more.

The award, given every three years, is presented to only a handful of scholars.

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jun 24

We're so proud of Emery! A rockstar legal studies major in our Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Program. 🤩

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SUNY - The State University of New York @sunyofficial.bsky.social · Jun 23

Going to law school at 18... What, like it's hard?👩‍⚖️

@ubuffalo.bsky.social's School of Law just welcomed their youngest student ever, Emery Taylor. Her determination led to her admission to UB's 3+3 Accelerated BA/JD combined degree program, an amazing achievement at her age! Congratulations! (1/2)

Otto awarded three prestigious fellowships for groundbreaking Bauhaus research

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jun 23

Elizabeth “Libby” Otto, #UBuffalo professor of modern and contemporary art history is reshaping what we know about the Bauhaus under Nazi rule.

She’s earned Guggenheim, Radcliffe, and Dedalus Foundation fellowships to support her new book on art, resistance, and complicity in 1930s Germany.

The Guggenheim, Harvard Radcliffe and Dedalus Foundation fellowships will support Libby Otto's groundbreaking work on the Bauhaus movement.

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jun 18

Excited for this partnership in developing the new Department of AI and Society at #UBuffalo!

UBuffalo Engineering and Applied Sciences @ubengineering.bsky.social · Jun 17

It's official! #UBuffalo is creating an academic department dedicated to harnessing #AI for the public good. The new Department of AI and Society (AIS), which recently received $5 million from New York State, will launch this fall. 👏

Read more here: ubseas.info/44dwD3A

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The new Department of AI and Society's inaugural chair, Atri Rudra, stands at a whiteboard, pointing to a complex math equation written in marker. He is teaching a small group of students who are attentively listening seated around a conference table.

Enriching research opportunities mark graduate’s UB career

Arts and Sciences | #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social · Jun 17

One undergrad. Three research fields. Endless curiosity. 💡🔍

Grace Hafner explored geology, public health, and ecology, all as an undergrad at #UBuffalo. From glowing rocks to mosquito maps to bats and light pollution, her research proves that curiosity doesn’t stick to one lane.

Grace Hafner credits her varied research experiences and strong faculty interactions with sending her off toward a bright future.