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UB SAFE: UB students and Beta Sigma Kappa fraternity members (from left) Jonathan Akers, Giovanni Santiago and Akil Dove distribute printed doorhangers to homes in University Heights on Saturday as part of Operation Doorhanger, a program to promote safety in the neighborhood around UB's South Campus. (Photo: Nancy J. Parisi)

Letro gives $1 million gift to UB

Francis M. Letro, a 1979 graduate of the UB Law School, has committed $1 million to the school in support of its programs and facilities. » Full Story

Faculty and staff honored at convocation

Continuing a 650-year tradition of recognizing the beginning of another academic year, UB held its eighth annual University Convocation yesterday. » Full Story

Nanotechnology takes aim at cancer: A new, patented nanotechnology that one day may allow cancer patients to receive treatments through an MRI procedure in a doctor's office is being developed by UB scientists and a French firm.

Detecting cyberattacks: New software system developed by UB scientists profiles "normal" computer habits.

NCAA review nearing end: UB is in the home stretch of its year-long, campus-wide effort to study its athletics program as part of the NCAA certification program.

Coetzee to deliver Butler reading: Award-winning novelist and former UB faculty member J. M. Coetzee will deliver the Edward H. Butler Chair Prose Reading on Oct. 17.

Volcanologist to fly over volcano: Flying over an erupting volcano might sound like a risky proposition, but UB volcanologist Michael Sheridan is doing just that this week as he studies how and where Edcudoran volcano Tungurahua next will do its damage.

Lab to aid informatics research: A new instructional-technology laboratory complex is expected to greatly enhance research in the School of Informatics.

Construction update: A listing of some of the recently completed, ongoing and new construction projects on the North and South campuses.

Color, images and "words that aren't words:" Mike Basinski's visual poetry flourishes in and beyond the Internet world of 'Zines.

Lignans-cancer link to be studied: The role of plant-based estrogens in modifying breast-cancer risk is the subject of a five-year research study and intervention to be conducted by nutritional epidemiologists at UB.

Skolnick briefs UB Council on bioinformatics: The UB Council received a lesson in "Bioinformatics 101" on Tuesday as Jeffrey Skolnick, director of the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, provided the body with a "snapshot in time" of the center and its recent activities.

Annual Security Report: The UB Annual Security Report is available to all current UB students and employees, and to all prospective UB students and employees upon request.