Five graduates of the University at Buffalo School of Law will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards at the 36th annual UB Law Alumni Association meeting and dinner on May 14. Dean Barry Boyer and state Sen. Mary Lou Rath also will be honored.
New asthma drugs, new genetic discoveries and the influence of home and external environments on the disease will be among the topics addressed at the 4th annual Asthma and Environmental Exposure Conference to be held May 9.
Michael C. Constantinou, Ph.D., professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, has been named director of the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory.
Hundreds of Depression-era art prints that resurfaced in 1960 when the State of New York took them out of storage and gave them to Rikers-Island inmates for use as drawing paper will be exhibited from May 1 through Sept. 13 at UB.
The School of Pharmacy will present a Pharmacy Law Review program for pharmacists in all practice settings on May 18 and 19 in the Center for Tomorrow.
Michael F. Sheridan, professor and chair of the Department of Geology, has been honored for his outstanding scientific work on the activity of the Volcan Colima, historically the most active volcano in Mexico.
Research conducted at the University at Buffalo suggests the potentially lethal brain swelling known as high-altitude cerebral edema that has caused the death of climbers on Mount Everest and elsewhere is caused by a disruption in the blood-brain barrier.
A University at Buffalo program that provides faculty with "seed" money to pursue promising research ideas has yielded $14 in external funding for every $1 that the university invested in 1994 during the program's first year.
