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The new class of students at the University at Buffalo Law School may be more diverse in background and experience than any in recent memory. Of the 247 first-year students enrolled this fall at the UB Law School, about half possess the prototypical law-school student portfolio, but many come to the school from wide-ranging paths that have taken them all over the world.

Paras N. Prasad, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been named one of the Scientific American 50, the prestigious magazine's annual list of "outstanding acts of leadership in science and technology from the past year."

The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center) in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to fund a second five-year cycle of its Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment (RERC-UD).

Coordinating police, residents and campus officials in an effort to crack down on disruptive student parties in University Heights is just one of the many projects of the Regional Community Policing Center, a University at Buffalo initiative that works to reduce crime and increase safety in seven neighborhoods surrounding the South (Main Street) Campus.

A new study at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) funded by a $1.6 million federal award aims to help eliminate the communication gap between researchers who study addictions-related issues and develop new treatment interventions, and practitioners who work with patients in treatment settings delivering therapeutic services every day.

James Cathcart, the 2005 John and Magda McHale Fellow at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, is an architect, artist, designer and planner of national and international museums, public institutions and events. Known as well for his exhibition design and intriguing interactive installations, Cathcart will present a free public lecture on Nov. 9 at the University at Buffalo.

As a Yale University law student Supreme Court justice nominee Samuel Alito was "very reserved and very insightful," according to University at Buffalo Law School Professor Lee A. Albert, who was Alito's professor at Yale in the early 1970s.

The accumulation of fat in the liver, or "fatty liver," resulting from accumulation of central body fat, and perhaps not alcohol consumption, may represent an important underlying mechanism for the association between liver enzymes and hypertension.

Unintentional collisions and falling into the boards cause more injuries in young hockey players than the practice of body checking, researchers at the University at Buffalo have found.

The University at Buffalo Law School dedicated the Hodgson Russ LLP Classroom -- Room 106 of O'Brian Hall on UB's North (Amherst) Campus -- with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 25.