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Noted Japanese feminist scholar Shimizu Kiyoko next week will present two lectures at the University at Buffalo, one about an east Asian television heartthrob who has bridged the cultural and political gap between Korea and Japan, and the second about women's role in the latest incarnation of Japan's century-old textbook controversy.

Men who smoke cigarettes may experience a significant decline in their capacity to father a child, research by a reproductive medicine specialist from the University at Buffalo has shown.

The expertise of faculty members at the University at Buffalo in the field of nanotechnology, where materials are the size of a billionth of a meter, has brought Buffalo distinct recognition by the National Cancer Institute.

The University at Buffalo and the Buffalo Alliance for Education have teamed up to invite Western New York primary and secondary schools to access free tickets for their students to attend a lecture by internationally renowned physicist Brian Greene at 8 p.m. on Nov. 16 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Bebe Neuwirth at 8 p.m. on Nov. 19 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by GEICO.

Robert and Carol Morris of New York City have provided a major gift to the University at Buffalo that will help establish the Signature Center of Excellence in 21st Century Music and provide support for the university's annual June in Buffalo, UB's internationally known annual festival and conference dedicated to emerging composers.

Researchers in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education have been awarded a five-year, $6 million grant to implement their pre-kindergarten mathematics curriculum in more than 120 classrooms and establish UB as a national leader in bringing new educational programs to full scale.

CIRRIE, the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange at the University at Buffalo, has received a $2.5 million, five-year competitive renewal grant from National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

Junhao Hong, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Communication in the University at Buffalo School of Informatics, and an expert on media and social change in China, has received a research appointment at Harvard University for the 2005-06 academic year.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present John Legend at 8 p.m. on Nov. 25 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.