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The Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth will be aligned with the UB Law School, effective immediately, in a move designed to advance the institute's mission to become one of the nation's premier university-based centers for the study of regions and governments.

With local budget woes cutting, and in some cases eliminating, funding to local public and nonprofit agencies, a program offered by the School of Social Work is providing training to help strengthen the planning and management skills of their staffs.

The University at Buffalo and CUBRC will serve as major collaborating partners in a new $15 million Homeland Security Center of Excellence to be established at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff announced this week at JHU in Baltimore.

Dermatologists seem to agree that something in milk and dairy products may be linked to teen-age acne. But is it hormones and "bioactive molecules," as a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology suggested, or is there something else? University at Buffalo dermatologist Harvey Arbesman, M.D., says there could be something else: Iodine.

Buffalo resident Alexa Wajed has been named "Protege of the Year" by the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program, a joint venture of the University at Buffalo School of Management Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and the UB Center for Urban Studies.

The Opera Foundation of Buffalo, Inc., has recognized Thomas Burrows, executive director of the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo, as the 2005 "Man of the Year" during a reception held Dec. 3 in the Zion United Church of Christ in North Tonawanda.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Aimee Mann -- A Special Acoustic Performance at 8 p.m. on Feb. 2 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

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.