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Fifteen graduates of the University at Buffalo School of Management received awards during the school's commencement ceremonies on May 13.

More than 5,500 students are candidates to receive degrees during the University at Buffalo's 165th general commencement ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 15, in Alumni Arena on the UB North Campus.

Two life-sciences entrepreneurs are launching the first procedure-specific software modules for robot-assisted surgery. Khurshid A. Guru, MD, director of robotic surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), and Thenkurussi "Kesh" Kesavadas, PhD, director of the Virtual Reality Lab and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo (UB), created Hands-on Surgical Training (HoST) to harness the didactic potential of their proprietary Robotic Surgical Simulator, or RoSS.

The breast cancer pretreatment period -- the time during which a woman is diagnosed, meets with physicians and awaits initial treatment -- can be extremely distressing, lonely and confusing. Research demonstrates that approximately one-third of women diagnosed with breast cancer will develop symptoms such as depression and post-traumatic stress at some point in the course of their illness. These symptoms may continue for up to 20 years after diagnosis.

The University at Buffalo will host the international workshop "Probabilistic Analysis of Volcanic Hazards" on May 16-19. Conference participants will include geologists, volcanologists and statisticians from several nations, who will consider current methodologies used in the analysis of volcanic hazards, including probability, randomness and statistical measures, in order to help define priorities for future research.

The Erie County legislators now redrawing election districts must resist the temptation to manipulate the remapping process, a University at Buffalo law professor says.

The University at Buffalo Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR) will host a May 18 meeting of the BioNetwork, a group of entrepreneurs, business leaders and venture capitalists, all former Western New Yorkers, who have worked together for the past eight years to energize the region's life sciences industry.

In addition to the health problems children with multiple sclerosis face, a risk of obesity has entered the picture. A new study conducted by pediatric MS specialists at the University at Buffalo has found that children with multiple sclerosis and other pediatric demyelinating disorders are at increased risk of childhood obesity, compared to children without these disorders.

Move over, Howard Roark! There's a new architect in town and she's not afraid of the color pink. Mattel's Architect Barbie, icon of the building trades, is ready for launch.

A month in ancient, sub-Arctic peat bogs among the seals and grizzlies of Kamchatka's outer banks is not for the out-of-shape or faint-of-heart. Fortunately, Claude Larson is neither. An intrepid, Montreal-born and exceptionally fit middle-school science teacher from Oak Ridge, N.J., Larson has climbed mountains, jumped from planes and trawled the North Atlantic to survey the sea scallop population.