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Mindy Wasserman and her children, Jeffrey and Betsy Heymann, David and Lisa Heymann and Andrew Heymann, decided to make it a family affair when establishing a scholarship fund for the UB Division of Athletics in honor of their late husband and father, Walter Heymann, an alumnus and former UB football player.

The University at Buffalo's Educational Opportunity Center, located at 465 Washington St. for the past 30 years, plans to move by early fall to offices in the former Empire of America Realty Credit Corp. building at 100 Seneca St., adjacent to the Erie Community College City Campus.

The new Andrew V.V. Raymond Chair in the UB Department of Classics is distinguished philologist and linguist Roger D. Woodard, author of a radical theory suggesting that the intellectual infancy of Western Civilization was far more complicated than we once thought.

A 1999 trip to Cambodia -- a country whose economy and educational system was left in ruins by the Khmer Rouge genocide of the late 1970s -- has prompted a University at Buffalo administrator to create a fund to help meet an urgent educational need in Indochina, one of the poorest regions on earth.

David Felder, artistic director of June in Buffalo, the pioneering festival for emerging composers of new music, promises "a spectacular festival this year, as deserves an event that has contributed so much to American music" as the festival, presented annually by the University at Buffalo Department of Music, marks its 25th anniversary in June,

Pablo DeGreiff, Ph.D., and Miriam Thalos, Ph.D., UB assistant professors of philosophy, have received prestigious research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Presidential candidate John McCain is the clear front-runner in the battle for charismatic appeal among major presidential candidates, says a University at Buffalo researcher who studies the attributes of charisma and leadership.

Contrary to long-held beliefs of the media and political scientists, U.S. presidential campaigns have systematic, predictable and significant effects on the outcomes of elections, an authority on the electoral process at the University at Buffalo has found.

Mothers who have alcohol and drug problems tend to be more punitive toward their children than women who do not have substance-abuse problems, according to a study conducted by two University at Buffalo School of Social Work faculty members.

Cigarette smoking appears to increase the risk for developing large brain aneurysms in patients who are predisposed to these life-threatening, blood-vessel malformations, a study headed by researchers in the University at Buffalo Department of Neurosurgery has shown.