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The most ambitious exhibition of contemporary Chinese art to travel beyond China will be presented this fall by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo Art Galleries after its debut in Beijing this summer at the Millennium Art Museum.

If you log on to eBay or murderauction.com these days, you will find a variety of "murderabilia" on sale for anywhere from $5 to $10,000. This might seem ghoulishly commercial, but it is just one manifestation of America's century-long obsession with serial killers. This compulsive preoccupation and its use in American culture is the subject of a new book by UB's David Schmid.

Amherst resident Meghan Fadel, a 2005 UB graduate and 2001 graduate of Amherst High School, has received a grant from the J. William Fulbright Foundation to teach English-as-a-second-language in Spain during the 2005-06 academic year.

IACE International Artistic and Cultural Exchange Program of the Department of Theatre and Dance, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Center For The Arts, in collaboration with Antecesores, will present IACE Performing Arts Series: Cuba, which will showcase Teatro Galiano 108 in La Virgen Triste (Sad Virgin) on at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 21 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Seattle native Geoffrey Rhodes has been awarded a foreign scholarship from the J. William Fulbright Foundation to study filmmaking in Canada during the 2005-06 academic year.

Findings from a collaboration between scientists at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) and George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., have established the importance of distinguishing between feelings of shame and guilt when providing treatment for substance abuse and in developing substance-abuse prevention programs.

Timothy P. Dee, D.C., has been named associate commercialization manager for the University at Buffalo Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR).

The University at Buffalo will host the 2005-06 Western New York Science and Technology Forum, a weekly lecture series for local science teachers.

Neuroscientists from the University at Buffalo have described for the first time how rotenone, an environmental toxin linked specifically to Parkinson's disease, selectively destroys the neurons that produce dopamine, the neurotransmitter critical to body movement and muscle control.

Forbes magazine has again included the University at Buffalo School of Management in its ranking of top business schools for providing MBA students with the best return on their investment.