The Buffalo Rotary Club will be celebrating its centennial anniversary with a very special guest. Ray Klinginsmith, president of Rotary International, will be coming to Buffalo on April 28 to join in celebrating the Rotary Club’s 100 years of service in Buffalo. This will be the first time in 25 years that the President of Rotary International has made a visit to Buffalo. “Rotary is the best in the world at linking people of goodwill around the globe and then gaining their cooperation and support to make the world a much better place to live and work,” said Klinginsmith. “The…
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Artvoice’s Give for Greatness campaign has announced two upcoming events that will take place this month in Buffalo, Doctor’s for the Arts and a concert presented by BPO and MusicalFare. Give for Greatness is a campaign that has been running since March 8th with the goal of reaching $1 million to benefit cultural institutions that lost funding in this year’s county budget. The first of these two events will be the Give for Greatness campaign’s Doctor’s for the Arts event on Sunday, April 10. The event will begin at 5 p.m. and run until 8 p.m. at the Albright-Knox Art…
Esther Takeuchi, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Greatbatch Professor of Advanced Power Sources at the University at Buffalo, was one of nine living inventors inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame this month.Takeuchi has earned more patents than any other woman in the United States. Her 148 patents mostly related to her development of sophisticated power sources for implantable devices. She developed a battery that enabled implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICD) which earned her a trip to the White House in 2009. Prior to this there was no battery that could provide sufficient energy to ICDs.”Professor Takeuchi’s ingenuity and pursuit…
A local film-making troupe in Buffalo is working on a project that is not only being filmed in the city, but it is also being funded via crowd-sourcing.The film which is being titled Granted received its funding through local contributors and social media with time to spare. The funding goal on IndieGogo was to reach $6,000, but the group raised $6,400 with a stunning 45 days left in their schedule to raise money.”The support from everyone in the area has been nothing short of amazing. Because we choose to crowd source our funding we were able to not only leverage…
After the devastating tsunami in Japan, the design of nuclear power plants will be influenced in the future due the disaster’s effect on the nuclear reactors.”If a nuclear reactor is built at a site where a 30-foot tsunami wave is possible, if it comes, it is going to have a significant effect, there is no way to control for that,” says Michael C. Constantinou, a structural engineer, and researcher with UB’s MCEER (Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research.)Constantinou works on seismic protective systems that deflect and dissipate seismic energy and protect structures during earthquakes. He says that the best way…
The Lilly Family and Citadel Broadcasting, WEDG, WGRF, WHTT have teamed up for a second consecutive year bringing you the 2nd Annual Buffalo Wine Festival. The premiere event will take place on Saturday, April 2nd at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.The event will be held all in one day, with two separate sessions – the first session running from 1-4 p.m. and the second going from 6-9 p.m. Event-goers will able to taste and purchase the New York Region’s premiere wines with live music, food from local area restaurants, and vendors on the scene as well.”The Lilly Family is extremely…
The volunteer organization HandsOn Greater Buffalo has partnered with Blue Sky Design Supply for an Earth Day Project called Art for Earth Day.The project involves collecting donated sample items such as fabric swatches, color boards, etc from local artists and design firms. Once collected, these items will be put on display for aspiring artists and students to take at no cost for to use in their own art and other projects. The event itself will take place on Saturday, April 16th at the new HandsOn Greater Buffalo Office in the Beals, McCarthy, and Rogers building located at 635 South Park…
Some houses in Buffalo have a rich history, but as we all know, many of them have lost some of the beauty they once held.Trevor Corp, an artist originally hailing from East Aurora, has moved back to Buffalo with his family – he left Buffalo to attend an art school in Maine and ended up staying for a number of years. Trevor, along with his wife Anna and daughter Katalina has recently moved into a Victorian home on the Richmond-West Ferry circle. The house had been neglected for some time, and Trevor has made it his goal to painstakingly restore…
As we enter the Sweet Sixteen, most college basketball fans have likely had their brackets busted this year. However, this does not come as a surprise to University at Buffalo researcher Alex Nikolaev.Nikolaev has done research that the odds do not favor the No. 1 seeds in the tournament. As a matter of fact, all four No. 1 seeds will advance to the Final Four once every 38 years according to Nikolaev, lead researcher Sheldon Jacobson, University of Illinois computer science professor, Adrian Lee and Douglas King.”If you compare the likelihood of exactly zero, one, two, three or four No.…
Assemblyman Sam Hoyt and Senator Mark Grisanti have announced that a bill important to the restoration of the H.H. Richardson Complex has been passed after a unanimous vote.The bill allows the transfer of 42 acres from the State Office of Mental Health to the Richardson Corporation. The former psychiatric facility has sat dormant for years but it still holds a great deal of architectural integrity. In 2006, Governor Pataki created a board that would oversee the reuse of the complex with an allocation of funds.A core plan has been developed and the first phase of the plan will have the…