News Releases

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will be the featured speaker when alumni and friends of the University at Buffalo Law School hold their annual New York City Alumni Luncheon at noon on Jan. 26, in the Union League Club, 38 East 37th St. in Manhattan. The event is held each year in conjunction with the New York State Bar Association's annual meeting.

Alex Anas, Ph.D., Frank H. and Josephine L Goodyear Professor in the Department of Economics in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, who has developed a new strategic-planning model that will allow urban planners to examine alternative "what-if" scenarios in advance and predict their consequences, and his interdisciplinary project team have received a $450,000 award from the National Science Foundation to continue their three-year study of the effect of different infrastructure investment-and-financing strategies on the development of metropolitan areas.

Zodiaque Dance Company will present its spring concert, "Ripples Too," Feb. 15-18 and 22-25 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

Prominent CEOs and senior executives from various business sectors, including banking and information technology, are signing on to teach graduate-level business courses in the University at Buffalo School of Management as part of the school's new CEO-MBA Series.

A remastered version of the Japanese epic "Ran" and the classic horror masterpiece "The Bride of Frankenstein" are among the films on tap for the spring edition of "Buffalo Film Seminars: Conversations about Great Films with Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson," a 14-week series of screenings and discussions sponsored by the University at Buffalo and the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre.

The UB Graduate School of Education will hold an open house from 5-7 p.m. on Feb. 1 in Baldy Hall on the North Campus to provide information to persons thinking of a pursing a career in education or an advanced degree in the field.

The Student Health Center is offering flu shots to all UB faculty, staff and students.

Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier, who paved the way for greater opportunities for minorities in the movie and television industries, will speak at the University at Buffalo on March 14 at UB's 24th Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration.

The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and the University at Buffalo have received grants totaling $3.13 million to develop new, high-speed methods to determine the molecular structure of proteins, which is essential for designing new drugs to treat, prevent and cure disease.

The Gifted Math Program at UB is accepting nominations of outstanding sixth-grade mathematics students submitted by schools and parents for its Fall 2001 entering class. The nomination deadline is Jan. 17.