Aerobic exercise is thought to help persons with multiple sclerosis fight fatigue, the most common symptom of the disease. Yet as the body heats up during exercise, it compromises the ability of people with MS to exercise and they become fatigued sooner.
Buffalo Niagara's top talent in biomedical informatics will educate and network with the region's technology community from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 31 at the Western New York Technology and Biomedical Informatics Forum in the Niagara Falls Conference Center, 101 Old Falls St., Niagara Falls.
They are variously referred to as "makers of art films," "avant-garde filmmakers" and "experimental filmmakers." By any name, they will travel to Buffalo next month from several nations to explore the nature of the cinematic image in relation to time. They will join viewers, scholars and theorists in a two-day film conference Nov. 5 and 6 titled "Interval."
David E. Brown, a law partner of the late Carmen P. Tarantino, has honored Tarantino's memory with a $313,500 memorial scholarship to the University at Buffalo Law School. The gift will support a full-tuition scholarship for three years for a deserving student in perpetuity.
In a live and online Webcast seminar, structural engineers and social scientists who were dispatched to New Orleans and Mississippi in the days after Katrina hit will describe the vast devastation they saw and discuss strategies for improving U.S. resilience and response to natural disasters, terrorist attack and other extreme events.
The National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) at the University at Buffalo will present its inaugural conference from 2-5 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
With energy costs throughout the nation hitting record highs and no relief in sight, the University at Buffalo is, for the second time in its history, embarking on a major, campus-wide, comprehensive energy-conservation project.
"Myths and Hymns," a contemporary music-theater piece, will be performed Nov. 9-13 by the University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance in UB's Center for the Arts Black Box theater in at the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
Academic Management Systems (AMS), a software-development company located in the University at Buffalo Technology Incubator, has released CourseEval3, a Web-based evaluation tool. This new version of its well-established software provides colleges and universities with the ability to set up a wide variety of course, faculty and other assessment activities online.
"New Futures: Humanities, Theory, Art," the first annual conference sponsored by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, will be held here Oct. 28-29 and will feature presentations by some of the most exceptional scholars and researchers addressing humanities issues today.
