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Which U.S. metro region is most likely to come out of the next recession, natural disaster or other regional "shock" relatively unscathed? Rochester, Minn. A little more battered might be College Station-Bryan, Texas. These two regions are ranked first and last, respectively, by a new online tool measuring more than 360 U.S. metros for their "regional resilience," or capacity to weather acute and chronic stresses ranging from gradual economic decline to rapid population gains to earthquakes and floods.

Artists, scientists and the public are invited to attend "The Man Machine," an evening of robot-centric entertainment and learning at the Buffalo Museum of Science starting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13.

You're looking for something fresh to read, but holy granola, there are more than 1,879,000 titles out there - 46 by Dr. Seuss alone!

A major grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation will help the University at Buffalo's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences expand its bioinformatics and computational biology expertise on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) downtown.

When Eman Abu Sabbah, a first-year PhD candidate in nursing at the University at Buffalo, discusses domestic violence against women in Jordan her body is still and her voice is steady, but her eyes shine with a laser-like intensity. A 2011 recipient of a prestigious Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF) grant, Sabbah has been working to help women in her home country for years.

In the first study of its kind in an animal species that has not passed a critical test of self-recognition, cognitive psychologist Justin J. Couchman of the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that rhesus monkeys have a sense of self-agency -- the ability to understand that they are the cause of certain actions -- and possess a form of self awareness previously not attributed to them.

Brittani Franklin attends Xavier University in New Orleans; Donteeno Todd attends Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss.; and Caitlin Nicholson attends Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. But all are spending the summer at the University at Buffalo, along with a dozen other undergraduate students from as far away as Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and as close as Buffalo.

The University at Buffalo Regional Institute, known for its cutting-edge policy research, and the Urban Design Project, a key contributor across two decades to planning and place-making efforts throughout the region, are joining forces.

University at Buffalo cyberwarfare expert and ethicist Randall Dipert, PhD, is relieved that in the long-awaited executive orders on cyberwarfare, President Obama is finally using cyberattacks and other computer-based operations as part of routine U.S. espionage against our enemies in other countries.

At the smallest scales, magnetism may not work quite the way scientists expected, according to a recent paper in Physical Review Letters by Rafal Oszwaldowski and Igor Zutic of the University at Buffalo and Andre Petukhov of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.