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Does drinking really kill brain cells? If not, what does happen, and how does it happen? Is the damage permanent? Does chronic alcohol abuse in late adulthood increase the deficits caused by aging? For 16 years, UB professor Roberta J. Pentney has pondered these basic questions concerning chronic alcohol abuse and brain function. Her painstaking work has yielded striking and unexpected answers.

Three UB students have received J. Scott Fleming Merit Awards for leadership and volunteer efforts that promote student involvement and enhance the student experience.

A research project using high-frequency sound waves to disinfect wastewater has earned a UB engineering student first prize in a national competition sponsored by the Water Environmental Federation (WEF).

Isaac Ehrlich, Ph.D., of Eggertsville, chair and Leading Professor in the Department of Economics at UB, has been appointed an honorary professor at City University of Hong Kong by a vote of that university's faculty senate and approval by the university president.

The University at Buffalo has established a new, multidisciplinary institute to conduct research designed to harness the power of light in a broad spectrum of applications and potential products, ranging from telecommunications to cancer therapy.

International critics have called Nicholas Isherwood the uncontested darling of contemporary musicians and one of the greatest interpreters of new music in the world today. The world-renowned performer joined the UB faculty in January as an assistant professor of singing and musical theater, teaching voice and running the Music Theatre Workshop.

Jack D. Cox, Jr., former acting assistant dean at the University of Dayton School of Law, has been named associate dean and director of admissions and financial aid at the UB Law School.

Felix M. Rivas, a doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, has received a three-year Ford Foundation fellowship.

"Letters Not About Love," a unique film collaboration between American poet Lyn Hejinian, Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and American filmmaker Jacki Ochs, will be presented by the UB Poetics Program at 4 p.m. Dec. 1 in the Screening Room, Room 112 of the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

A UB faculty member was one of the chief speakers at the first direct military-training program sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Special Operations School and partially funded by the Department of State that included four Iraqi rebel leaders who oppose President Saddam Hussein.