Barry Crawford, Director

Jon Nelson, Director

The University at Buffalo and Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute are cosponsoring a visit April 8-9 from the world-renowned scientist who was awarded the most recent Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The University at Buffalo Alumni Association will honor a prominent local philanthropist and an internationally recognized journalist at the UB Alumni Association Achievement Awards ceremony to be held at 6:30 p.m. April 9 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the North Campus.

The University at Buffalo has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.

The University at Buffalo School of Nursing welcomed guests to its new home at a grand opening reception today that included tours of its new clinical facilities in Wende Hall on UB's South Campus.

Mammograms, pap smears and early detection tests for prostate cancer, colorectal cancer and other malignancies are critical for catching cancer before it becomes deadly. However, a new study by University at Buffalo researchers shows that persons of different ethnic groups have different ideas and opinions about whether they are at risk for developing cancer -- perceptions that can influence whether they undergo screening.

Dennis R. Black of Buffalo, vice president for student affairs at the University at Buffalo, has received the 2010 Fred Turner Award for Outstanding Service from NASPA -- Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Diéé Francis Kéé, an award-winning architect from Burkina Faso whose practice is dedicated to sustainable architecture, will deliver the 2010 Birdair Lecture at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning March 26 at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall on UB's South Campus.

Teams from Clarence High School, Sacred Heart Academy and Harkness Career & Technical Center have placed first, second and third, respectively, in "MoneySKILL® Mania," a financial literacy competition for high school students sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Management and M&T Bank.

Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, and northern Finland, to understand how humans living 4,000 to 6,000 years ago reacted to climate changes. Their findings will tell governments, scientists and NGOs how relationships between human beings and their environments may change in decades to come as a result of global warming.

Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr., MD, a nationally known former surgeon, researcher and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, will discuss his 20-year plant-based nutritional study at a city-wide medical grand rounds lecture on March 18 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Smith Auditorium on the 3rd floor of Erie County Medical Center (ECMC).

A University at Buffalo professor who specializes in science education will bring his message of technology and student engagement to the nation's largest group of science educators gathered for the National Science Teachers Association meeting on March 18 in Philadelphia, Pa.

Literary critics, cultural scholars and aficionados of the Mayans, the only fully literate people of the pre-Columbian Americas, have lined up to call the first fully illustrated survey of two millennia of Mayan texts assembled by award-winning scholar Dennis Tedlock, "stunning," "astounding," "groundbreaking" and "literally breathtaking."

The University at Buffalo and the Town of Amherst have signed a written agreement of cooperation for development of land adjacent to UB's North Campus in ways consistent with the town's Bicentennial Comprehensive Plan and UB's Comprehensive Physical Plan, which guides the university's implementation of the UB 2020 strategic vision to become a model 21st century university.

The University at Buffalo engineer who developed the world's first apparatus designed to realistically test how building contents, architectural components and equipment (called nonstructural components) fare during earthquakes will leave for Chile on March 5 on a week-long reconnaissance mission to see firsthand what kind of damage hospitals and tall, engineered buildings sustained during Saturday's powerful, 8.8 magnitude earthquake.

Adolfo Carrión Jr., director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy, a position created by President Barack Obama last year to focus federal investment in cities for the first time in several decades, will present the Graduate Planning Student Association Lecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning on April 23 at 1 p.m. in 146 Diefendorf Hall, UB South Campus.

Adolfo Carrión Jr., director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy, a position created by President Barack Obama last year to focus federal investment in cities for the first time in several decades, will present the Graduate Planning Student Association Lecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning on April 23 at 1 p.m. in 146 Diefendorf Hall, UB South Campus.

Science Exploration Day, the University at Buffalo's annual science-education bash, will make a return engagement to UB's North Campus on March 10, once again attracting some of the top science minds in the area, ages 14 and up.

One way to stem the rising rates of obesity may be to mimic the successful approach used to decrease smoking: taxes.

Edward H. Steinfeld, ArchD, AIA, of Amherst, an award-winning professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and an international pioneer in the field of inclusive design and environmental access, will receive the university's second annual Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence from UB President John B. Simpson at 5 p.m. March 25 in 146 Diefendorf Hall, UB South Campus.

The University at Buffalo School of Management and M&T Bank will host more than 80 students from 16 public, private and charter schools in the third annual "MoneySKILL® Mania," a financial literacy competition for high school juniors and seniors

Makau W. Mutua, dean of the University at Buffalo Law School, has been elected to the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, a New York City-based think tank and membership organization that studies major international issues and publishes the influential journal Foreign Policy.

The distinctive musical and narrative heritage of Korea will come to life on March 11 with a performance of Korean p'ansori by Chan Park, an internationally acclaimed master of the p'ansori story-singing tradition.

A rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 is yielding a treasure trove of essential information about the age and evolutionary origins of the species whose future is now seen as synonymous with the devastation wrought by climate change.

One way to stem the rising rates of obesity may be to mimic the successful approach used to decrease smoking: taxes.

Tech Savvy is an annual conference designed to provide young women and their parents information related to technological opportunities. This year’s theme involves persistence and problem solving. We will encourage 6th - 9th grade girls to consider the importance of these skills currently and throughout their lives -- and encourage students to consider STEM careers. We are expecting up to 500 girls, as well as their parents, teachers, counselors, and other interested adults for this fifth anniversary event.

A collaboration between the Center for Robotic Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has produced one of the world's first simulators that closely approximates the "touch and feel" of the da Vinci robotic surgical system.

Hypnosis can help alleviate the pain and suffering experienced by women being treated for breast cancer, according to a study by a University at Buffalo School of Social Work professor.

From cashiers to child care workers, low-wage jobs are filling a growing segment of the Western New York economy, placing more and more Western New Yorkers on the brink of poverty, according to a policy brief released today by the UB Regional Institute.

The University at Buffalo's clean energy business incubator program, Directed Energy, will host "Smart Grid Opportunities," a half-day workshop designed to help businesses and researchers better comprehend technical advancements and business opportunities related to efforts to revamp the electrical grid.

The University at Buffalo's Department of Neurology/Jacobs Neurological Institute is the first site in the U.S. approved to enroll patients in a clinical trial of the drug desmosteplase, a new treatment for acute ischemic stroke.

Luis A. Colon, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, is receiving the 2009 AAAS Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Instead of using a stale Harvard Business case, student finalists in the UB School of Management's 14th annual MBA case competition applied their problem-solving skills to a real-world situation closer to home: how to boost the economy of Wilson, N.Y., after the recent closing of the Pfeiffer Salad Dressing plant.

A team of two juniors and one senior in the UB School of Management was named the winner of the fourth annual Becker Professional Education Case Competition.

The investigation is continuing after yesterday's evacuation of Lockwood Library, but UB Police say they were not able to confirm there was a man with a gun on campus and there is no longer a threat to the university community.

On Feb. 16 at approximately 4:03 p.m. University Police received a call reporting that a man with a rifle was seen in Lockwood Library. The description of the suspect is as follows: White male, early 20s, short brown hair but not a brush cut, 5-foot-6 or taller, light facial hair, Navy pea coat, carrying what appeared to be a rifle. University Police evacuated the library to search for the suspect.

University at Buffalo Police Chief Gerald Schoenle will hold a briefing at 9:30 p.m. in the lobby of Baird Hall on the UB North Campus to bring members of the media up to date on the completed search of Lockwood Library. He will discuss the search University Police conducted in the six-story library.

At 7:45 p.m. the UB Police Department completed their search of Lockwood Library and no suspicious person was found. UB Police say that there is no threat to the campus. The library will remain closed for the evening. UB Police are available until 9:30 p.m. tonight to escort any student or staff member who may have left belongings in the building.

At about 4:30 p.m. today, University at Buffalo police responded to a call of a suspicious person seen entering Lockwood Library, possibly with a gun. Police responded and continue to search the five-floor library. The area was evacuated as a precaution and the campus was notified to avoid the area at 4:40 p.m. Officials announced at 5:40 p.m. that classes and activities on the university's North Campus would be cancelled tonight.

UB Police have evacuated Lockwood Library on the North Campus. There will be a media briefing at 6 p.m. in the lobby Baird Hall on the UB North Campus. Reports of a gunman on campus remain unconfirmed.

Internationally renowned human rights scholar and activist Makau W. Mutua, dean of the University at Buffalo Law School, will deliver public lectures on sexual orientation and human rights during a week-long trip to Africa. He will depart Saturday, Feb. 13, to travel to Nairobi, Kenya, and Kampala, Uganda. He will return to the U.S. on Saturday, Feb. 20.

Despite a difficult economy, state budget woes and the ever-challenging weather, Kaleida Health and the University at Buffalo's $291 million construction project is moving full speed ahead. Today, the two organizations ceremonially marked the first sequence of steel being raised and put into place.

Leaders of Kaleida Health and the University at Buffalo will gather today (Fri., Feb. 12) for brief remarks as the first sequence of steel is erected at the construction site of a new combined $291 million clinical care, research and business incubation building to be located next to Buffalo General Hospital at Goodrich and Ellicott streets.

An analysis released today of economic activity along the U.S.-Canadian border likely reflects the impact of economic recession and tighter border controls, as the value of trade between the two nations dropped 9 percent in 2008 and auto and truck traffic declined nearly 5 percent.

Leaders of Kaleida Health and the University at Buffalo will gather for brief remarks as the first sequence of steel is erected at the construction site of a new combined $291 million clinical care, research and business incubation building to be located next to Buffalo General Hospital at Goodrich and Ellicott streets.

Diamonds and gold may make some hearts flutter on Valentine's Day, but in a University at Buffalo laboratory, silver nanoparticles are being designed to do just the opposite.

More than 55 percent of multiple sclerosis patients participating in the initial phase of the first randomized clinical study to determine if persons with MS exhibit narrowing of the extracranial veins, causing restriction of normal outflow of blood from the brain, were found to have the abnormality.

The University at Buffalo Art Gallery will mount the exhibit "Artpark: 1974-84," the first comprehensive historical overview of the seminal years of the innovative Visual Artists Program at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y.

In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, University at Buffalo geography students are participating in a global effort to enhance the international response and recovery effort by helping to assess damage, using images hosted by Google Earth and the Virtual Disaster Viewer, which shares imagery of disasters from various sources.

Friday's one-year anniversary of the crash of Continental Flight 3407 will almost certainly trigger anxiety and fear among those personally affected by the tragedy. And a University at Buffalo expert on trauma and loss says those with a less-immediate, but still important connection to the tragedy can also expect a recurrence of anxiety or grief.

Fewer African Americans than Caucasians develop multiple sclerosis (MS), statistics show, but their disease progresses more rapidly, and they don't respond as well to therapies, a new study by neurology researchers at the University at Buffalo has found.

Children from across Western New York who don't have access to dental care will receive free treatment Feb. 5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine's ninth annual "Give Kids a Smile" day.

4 students from the Eastman School of Music's prestigious Organ Studio to perform on Slee Hall's Fisk Organ.

Students enrolled in Jean Kopperud's "On the Edge" class to perform.

David Leung, conductor

Presented with support from The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music.

The music of Helmut Lachenmann, presented with support from the Slee/Visiting Artist Series.

The University at Buffalo today announced creation of a new advisory council that will help the university and its community partners prepare local residents for jobs created by implementation of the UB 2020 plan to grow the university and increase its regional economic impact.

In his recent book "Unequal Democracy," noted Princeton political scientist Larry Bartels reaches the controversial conclusion that Democratic presidents have generally done a better job in handling the economy. As he sees it, Democrats have had a better record across the board. But James Campbell, a University at Buffalo professor of political science and widely published author on American politics, says Bartels is incorrect.

Teresa Quattrin, MD, professor of pediatrics at the University at Buffalo, an internationally known physician-scientist and an expert in childhood diabetes and obesity, has been appointed chair of the UB Department of Pediatrics after a comprehensive national search.

The University at Buffalo will name its newest and most innovative residence hall after William R. Greiner, who devoted 42 years of service to the institution as president, provost and longtime Law School faculty member

The Richmond Oval, designed for the 2010 Winter Olympics, is the focus of a new, specially created exhibition at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning. The exhibition, which traces the design process from early conceptual sketches to technical drawings, also includes photographs of the construction and the completed building, together with a large model built by graduate students in the architecture program at UB.

On Feb. 10 at 7 p.m., a performing arts troupe of musicians and dancers from Wuhan, China, will present a Celebration of China's New Year of the Tiger at Nichols School, 1250 Amherst St. in Buffalo.

University at Buffalo biologists have identified an enzyme that degrades an important protein present in cancers of both adults and children. The findings, published in the current issue of Molecular Cell, could lead to more effective therapies for cancers in which the protein -- Wilms' tumor 1 (WT1) -- is involved, as well as to a better understanding of how childhood and adult cancers differ.

The University at Buffalo's School of Public Health and Health Professions has established a Division of Environmental Health Sciences and appointed James R. Olson, PhD, professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, as director.

Ask anyone familiar with the public drama: School boards provoke as much passion among their constituents as Congress. And it's easy to understand why, says Thomas Ramming, clinical assistant professor of educational leadership and policy in the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education.

In the national effort to lower health care costs by preventing chronic disease and hospitalizations, dentists may be an important part of the solution. A nationwide survey published in the January 2010 issue of the JADA (The Journal of the American Dental Association) reports that dentists would be willing to screen their patients for medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases when they come to the office for dental care.

Frederick E. Munschauer III, MD, noted neurologist and chair of the University at Buffalo's Department of Neurology, has been appointed vice president of U.S. medical affairs for Biogen Idec in Boston, Mass.

IRS-certified accounting students from the University at Buffalo School of Management will again provide free tax preparation services to individuals and families with annual incomes below $49,000.

The University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute on Jan. 28 will begin the latest step in UB;s expanding academic model to address the nationwide nursing shortage, launching a clinical nursing education program unique in New York State.

Days after arriving in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, a team of French-speaking structural engineers led by Andre Filiatrault, PhD, University at Buffalo civil engineering professor and director of the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), headquartered at UB, was appointed by the United Nations as its interim lead coordinating team for organizing and initiating building assessments.

After a national search, Arlene Kaukus has been named director of career services at the University at Buffalo. Her appointment is effective Feb. 1.

The celebrated one-woman play Miracle in Rwanda, which tells the story of a Rwandan woman who survived her country's 1994 horrifying genocide, will be performed on Feb. 11-13 at the University at Buffalo in memory of the late human-rights activist, historian and MacArthur Fellow Alison L. Des Forges.

University at Buffalo Law School Professor Susan V. Mangold has been selected the leading academic for one of 15 teams accepted for a cooperative research conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Mental Health.

University at Buffalo medical students are "passing the hat" and organizing events to raise funds for Haiti in the aftermath of the massive earthquake on Jan. 11 and the 5.9 magnitude aftershock that followed on Jan. 20.

A University at Buffalo cancer researcher has received a $300,000 grant from King Saud University (KSU) to continue her work with a Saudi researcher on a vaccine for breast cancer.

The powerful aftershock that hit the already devastated city of Port au Prince on Jan. 20 has only intensified Haiti's need for French-speaking structural engineers who can immediately determine which of the structures left standing may still pose a threat to human safety.

She lost 15 family members in the Haitian earthquake, but Samarth Joseph, a Haitian-born PhD student in the University at Buffalo Department of Geography, plans to be back on the island by the end of the week to help her homeless family members and to distribute solar cookers to residents.

WBFO 88.7 FM, the University at Buffalo's National Public Radio member station, will launch new programming weekdays and weekends beginning Feb. 1, expanding its array of award-winning NPR news, analysis and entertainment.

University at Buffalo researchers are the first to show that a controlled individualized exercise training program can bring athletes and others suffering with post-concussion syndrome (PCS) back to the playing field or to their daily activities.

The University at Buffalo's world-renowned earthquake engineering faculty, and the internationally diverse students who come here to train in this critical field, are always intensely interested in any earthquake that occurs. But for Pierre Fouche, who is working on his doctorate in earthquake engineering, the earthquake in Haiti had enormous personal significance. Fouche is Haitian and his family lives there.

As details continue to unfold, medical, cultural and communication experts at the University at Buffalo are available to discuss the catastrophic earthquake that devastated Haiti last week.

Country 106.5 WYRK presents: James Otto, David Nail and Easton Corbin Plus! Steel Magnolia. This concert is SOLD OUT.

Come see this well loved classical ballet that is wondrous to see, glorious to hear and ablaze with fantasy, brought to the stage by the Greater Buffalo Youth Ballet. The Greater Buffalo Youth Ballet, Western New York’s premier youth ballet company, directed by founding Artistic Director Elizabeth DiStasio-Waddell, is a non-profit ballet company with over 80 dancers ranging from ages 6 to professional and performs classical, modern, and original works throughout Western New York. $21.50, Students & Seniors $19.50. Tickets: Center Box Office (M-F, 10-6) and ticketmaster.com. Student tickets available at Box Office with Student ID. Center Box Office accepts UB Campus Cash. Charge: 1-800-745-3000 | Info: (716) 645-2787 | www.ubcfa.org

David Gray has sold 12 million albums, including the best selling album in Ireland ever with White Ladder (which included the hits "Please Forgive Me," "Babylon" and more). He is touring in support of his latest release Draw The Line. Produced by The Bowery Presents. $60.00, $42.50, $30.00. Tickets: Center Box Office (M-F, 10-6) and http://ticketmaster.com. Center Box Office accepts UB Campus Cash. Charge: 1-800-745-3000 | Info: (716) 645-2787 | http://www.ubcfa.org

Special Guest: Tom Hambridge Any discussion of Buddy Guy invariably involves a recitation of his colossal musical resume and hard-earned accolades. He’s a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a chief guitar influence to rock titans like Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, and Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to that city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy has received five Grammy Awards, 23 W.C. Handy Blues Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Yet despite this long list of achievements, Buddy Guy and his music remain as vital as ever. $43.50, $39.50. Tickets: Center Box Office (M-F, 10-6) and ticketmaster.com. Center Box Office accepts UB Campus Cash. Charge: 1-800-745-3000 | Info: (716) 645-ARTS | www.ubcfa.org

The Opera Show presents the most beautiful music ever written exquisitely performed in a spectacular 21st century showcase. Mitch Sebastian's ravishing production is startling and fresh a vivid MTV-style presentation with dazzling choreography animating great works of classical music. Tickets: Center Box Office (M-F, 10-6) and http://ticketmaster.com. Student tickets available at Box Office with Student ID. Center Box Office accepts UB Campus Cash. Charge: 1-800-745-3000 | Info: (716) 645-ARTS | http://www.ubcfa.org

Gov. David A. Paterson announced today that he will include in his 2010 Executive Budget significant reforms that would give SUNY -- and the University at Buffalo -- the financial flexibility to position the system and university to play a major role in the state's economic resurgence and support UB 2020 as a basis for economic transformation in Western New York.

On January 19th, we will make history when the dramatic adaptation of the award winning book "Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady" (SUNY Press, 2009) comes to the stage at Allen Hall Theater. Adapted and directed by Robert Knopf, chair of the University's Theater and Dance Department, "Go, Tell Michelle: the Play" will feature three readers; Karima Amin, Peggy Brooks-Bertram and Barbara Seals Nevergold. Free and open to the public, there will be a reception to follow the play. Frank E. Meriweather Jr. Library 1324 Jefferson Avenue Buffalo, NY 14208

University at Buffalo faculty -- including earthquake engineering, disaster, trauma and communication experts -- are available to discuss the tragic earthquake in Haiti. A listing of the experts and their commentary is available at http://newstips.buffalo.edu.

Directed by Vincent O'Neill. Tickets: Center Box Office (M-F, 10-6) and http://ticketmaster.com. Student tickets available at Box Office with Student ID. Center Box Office accepts UB Campus Cash. Charge: 1-800-745-3000 | Info: (716) 645-ARTS | http://www.ubcfa.org

Directed by Vincent O'Neill. Tickets: Center Box Office (M-F, 10-6) and http://ticketmaster.com. Student tickets available at Box Office with Student ID. Center Box Office accepts UB Campus Cash. Charge: 1-800-745-3000 | Info: (716) 645-ARTS | http://www.ubcfa.org

Directed by Vincent O'Neill. Tickets: Center Box Office (M-F, 10-6) and http://ticketmaster.com. Student tickets available at Box Office with Student ID. Center Box Office accepts UB Campus Cash. Charge: 1-800-745-3000 | Info: (716) 645-ARTS | http://www.ubcfa.org

Directed by Vincent O'Neill. Tickets: Center Box Office (M-F, 10-6) and http://ticketmaster.com. Student tickets available at Box Office with Student ID. Center Box Office accepts UB Campus Cash. Charge: 1-800-745-3000 | Info: (716) 645-ARTS | http://www.ubcfa.org

Directed by Vincent O'Neill. Tickets: Center Box Office (M-F, 10-6) and http://ticketmaster.com. Student tickets available at Box Office with Student ID. Center Box Office accepts UB Campus Cash. Charge: 1-800-745-3000 | Info: (716) 645-ARTS | http://www.ubcfa.org

Directed by Tressa Gorman-Crehan. Tickets: Center Box Office (M-F, 10-6) and http://ticketmaster.com. Student tickets available at Box Office with Student ID. Center Box Office accepts UB Campus Cash. Charge: 1-800-745-3000 | Info: (716) 645-ARTS | http://www.ubcfa.org

Parents are acutely aware of the influence of friends on their children's behavior -- how they dress, how they wear their hair, whether they drink or smoke. A new laboratory-based study has shown that friends also may influence how much adolescents eat.

The University at Buffalo Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage will present the first David Blitzer Lecture Series in Jewish Studies Feb. 4 to April 22.

Donald Shoup, PhD, a widely published and influential professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been named the 2010 Clarkson Visiting Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.