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Media Mentions

Our faculty are frequently called upon to inform critical issues facing the world today. See the latest faculty and school mentions in the press.

  • Jordan Geiger’s New Book Entr’acte Examines Rapid Change in Public Space with New Technologies
    4/29/15

    The theatre term “entr’acte,” or the interval between acts in a play, becomes a vehicle to explore the interstices of architecture and new media - and the formation of new publics - in an edited volume just published by the School of Architecture and Planning’s Jordan Geiger.

  • 'A Force of Transformation'
    4/22/15

    Jennifer Whittaker (MUP '15), an emerging leader in food systems planning, has just earned the distinguished SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.

  • The Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region's Public History Conference
    4/16/15
    A story on Northeast Public Radio interviews Henry Louis Taylor, director of UB’s Center for Urban Planning, about the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region’s 14th annual Public History Conference. Taylor is presenting the conference’s keynote address, “Underground Railroad to the Fight Against Neoliberal Racism: The Long Struggle for Black Liberation.”
  • Daniel Hess Wins Prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Fellowship
    4/14/15

    The two-year fellowship will take Hess, associate professor of urban and regional planning, across the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to research design and planning solutions for aging Soviet-era housing estates.

  • Article features UB's GRoW Home under construction
    4/12/15
    An article on Time Warner Cable News reports on the GRoW Home under construction by students from the UB School of Architecture and Planning, which will be entered in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon. The article interviews UB students Amanda Munford and Matthew Kreidler, as well as Martha Bohm, assistant professor of architecture. “We started the design on this house in 2013 in the spring semester with a group of students in a seminar class dreaming up ideas of what a solar house in Buffalo could be like,” Bohm said. The story also aired on Time Warner Cable News in Albany.
  • Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Recognized for Outreach to Erie Community College
    4/10/15

    R.J. Multari, assistant dean for undergraduate education at the School of Architecture and Planning, has been recognized by Erie Community College for his work in aligning the college’s architecture technology program with the School of Architecture and Planning’s undergraduate program.

  • Architecture Program Receives High Marks in Review by NAAB
    4/8/15

    The School of Architecture and Planning’s Department of Architecture received a positive review by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). The rigorous external evaluation measures the quality of the program against a set of standards for architecture programs across the U.S.

  • Early risers work to make ends meet
    4/4/15
    A front-page article about the hard-working early-risers in the Buffalo Niagara region, who leave for work before 7 a.m., quotes Henry Louis Taylor, director of UB’s Center for Urban Studies in the School of Architecture and Planning, and Jessica Houston Su, assistant professor of sociology who does research on people who work early. “There are positives in these schedules and there are negatives,” she said. “Generally, for working class jobs, it tends to be negative.”
  • Independent, Accessible Living Still Challenging, Despite Mandates
    3/26/15
    Jonathan White, an architectural research and design associate at UB, is quoted in a story on WXXI-FM about the challenges that people with disabilities face in finding accessible, affordable housing and the need to build in inexpensive mobility-friendly features during construction. “The idea of visitability was to try to fill this gap and to provide just a basic level of access – we’re not talking full accessibility … but maybe putting blocking in the walls for future installation of grab bars or having at least one zero-step entrance,” he said.
  • UB solar house selected to be part of federal competition
    3/18/15
    A story on WBFO-FM reports a group of UB students and faculty are among 17 intercollegiate teams chosen worldwide to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, and interviews Martha Bohm, assistant professor of architecture, about the project.
  • Horizontal chimney flue heats café and customers' backsides
    3/16/15
    An article on Giz Mag reports on a Buffalo café designed by Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis of the UB Department of Architecture, that uses a unique masonry heater, with a flue chamber that exits horizontally, to heat the building for 24 hours with a single, hour-long burn.
  • The Mason’s New Onsite Assistants – A Brick-Hauling Robot and Smart Glasses
    3/12/15

    A group of UB architects and engineers are mid-way through a multi-year initiative to design, build and program a suite of tools that would not only improve the life of the mason but break new ground for architecture and robotics.