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Male water fleas that scientists have never seen have made their debut in a University at Buffalo laboratory, providing biologists with their first glimpse of these elusive organisms. The UB research, opens a new window on the biological diversity of several species of water fleas that play major roles in freshwater food webs.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present an evening with Lyle Lovett Acoustic Trio at 8 p.m. on Jan. 29 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Researchers in the Center for Research in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University at Buffalo have received $1.85 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study the role of abnormal cardiac sympathetic nerve function in sudden cardiac death.

One of the first studies to determine whether antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplements should be taken during radiation therapy is set to begin in the University at Buffalo's School of Nursing.

Nationally renowned neurosurgeons from the University at Buffalo's Department of Neurosurgery today performed New York State's first "Wingspan Stent" procedure on three patients at high risk for stroke.

The Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Inc., has announced the publication of "Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders," Volume III, a commemorative publication celebrating the centennial of the Niagara Movement, a major step on the road to black militancy that had its roots in Western New York.

As part of a slate of activities planned around the upcoming visit to UB of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a comprehensive list is being compiled of Spring and Fall 2006 classes that will touch on Tibetan Buddhism and related topics.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo involved in diverse fields in engineering and economics have been awarded a total of $1.5 million in faculty development grants from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research.

A faculty member in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an assistant vice provost at the University at Buffalo have been awarded Fulbright Scholar Grants.

Screeners at airport security checkpoints perform an important task in which they search for objects that belong to threat categories in complex X-ray images. New research by cognitive psychologists at the University at Buffalo and Georgia State University explores the cognitive processes that underlie screening, suggests limits on those processes, and has implications for the training and evaluation of screeners in the field.