Fillmore's 199th birthday Provost David J. Triggle, left, gives memorial address Jan. 7 at ceremony in Forest Lawn Cemetery honoring 199th birthday of Millard Fillmore, UB's first chancellor and 13th president of the U.S. At right is Col. James W. Kwiatkowski, New York Air National Guard, who placed wreath from President Clinton.

UB, Roswell Park to join for research institute
Pataki proposal aims to create biotechnology initiative, spur economic development in area
UB and Roswell Park Cancer Institute would receive $5 million under a plan by Gov. George Pataki to create a cooperative research institute to advance work in micro-bioengineering and pharmaceutical biotechnology already under way at the two institutions.

FSEC notes displeasure at trustees' action
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee has gone on record voicing its displeasure with the SUNY Trustee's adoption of a general-education curriculum for the system's four university centers and 13 four-year colleges without consultation with the campuses.

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