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The School of Nursing at the University at Buffalo is one of 10 nursing schools in the U.S. chosen by the Helene Fuld Health Trust to receive a major endowment to fund student scholarships.

"Friday the 13th's" association with bad luck is one of countless examples of humankind's universal predisposition for magical thinking -- the belief that thoughts, words or actions will produce an outcome that defies normal laws of cause and effect, says Phillips Stevens, Jr., associate professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo

The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the University at Buffalo School of Management and the UB Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach are seeking students and recent alumni to participate in the inaugural Technology Entrepreneur Competition.

At just 19 years old, one UB student's 15 minutes of fame came early in life, but he says he hopes it won't be his last. In early January, Paul Hebert, a sophomore double-major in English and philosophy, left the frigid temperatures of his hometown of Albany and flew to balmy Florida to be a contestant on the College Week edition of ABC's popular game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."

In a study of how American high school students describe their social identities, an education professor at the University at Buffalo has found that a sizeable number of young people downplay conventional racial and ethnic labels and are constructing social identities unlike those of previous generations.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present MacHomer on at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Feb 27 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. MacHomer is sponsored by the UB Student Association.

"The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art," the largest exhibition of contemporary Chinese art to travel beyond China, will be on display in the UB Art Galleries and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in 2005.

A strategy in Buffalo aimed at stimulating awareness of careers in the life sciences, particularly bioinformatics, has spurred local teachers and the Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo to develop several in-school programs to introduce bioinformatics to area high school students.

Patients who need a second surgery to open a re-clogged carotid artery, the large artery on either side of the neck that serves the brain, face potential major complications, including possible damage to nerves that control eye and tongue movements and stroke. A new, less invasive procedure being tested in clinical trials at the University at Buffalo and elsewhere could change that prospect, however.

J. Ronald Gentile, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, and his wife, Kay Johnson-Gentile, a retired Buffalo State College professor, have pledged up to $25,000 in matching challenge funds to benefit UB's recently established Center for Teaching and Learning Resources (CTLR).