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University at Buffalo Police today charged a 21-year old Buffalo male with second-degree robbery and related charges following an early-morning robbery on the South Campus.

University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi has issued a statement regarding the appointment of Interim Provost Harvey Stenger as the next president of Binghamton University.

The public is invited to The Prestige, a free event on Wed., Nov. 23, at 7 p.m. at Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., that features a series of conversations with scientists and artists on the underpinnings of deception. The Prestige is the latest event in the Science and Art Cabaret series presented by the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, Hallwalls and the Buffalo Museum of Science.

As part of a joint effort between the University at Buffalo and the City of Buffalo to improve living conditions for UB students living in the neighborhoods around the South Campus, building inspectors will be revisiting houses that were found in violation this fall to see if landlords have made the recommended improvements, and they will be inspecting new homes.

Despina Stratigakos, PhD, of Buffalo, associate professor of visual studies and architecture at the University at Buffalo, has been named deputy director of the UB Institute for Research and Education on Women & Gender, the university-wide center that supports and promotes research and teaching related to gender and sexuality.

For the second consecutive year, Michael Glick, DMD, professor and dean of the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, has been awarded the American Dental Education Association's William J. Gies Foundation First Place Editorial Award. He received the award at their annual meeting last month in Las Vegas.

American students score lower on international mathematics tests than students from countries that are poorer but with more equal distributions of family income, such as Finland, according to a University at Buffalo professor who has found links among income equality within countries, school equality and higher mathematics achievement in 41 countries.

One of the first studies to examine, in animals, how depression in fathers may impact their offspring will be presented by the study's researchers from the University at Buffalo and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine at 10 a.m. on Nov. 16 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

The University at Buffalo is once again among the top 20 U.S. campuses with the largest enrollment of international students, according to data published by the Institute of International Education (IIE).

Two annual investor forums in Upstate New York will partner in 2012 to host a single event: A two-day forum in Buffalo that will connect early-stage, high-tech companies with angel investors and venture capitalists.