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Susan Howe, former Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry and the Humanities, University at Buffalo Department of English, and one of the preeminent poets of her generation, has been named the 2011 winner of Yale University's Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.

When a disaster's physical evidence is gone -- debris removed, shooter arrested, ashes cold -- the psychological effects of the disaster on emergency responders and civilians involved still may burn. Emergency mental health, a field often overlooked in the chaos, is a vital component of any disaster response, but may not be well represented in emergency preparedness planning.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will welcome Bob Newhart on Friday, April 1, at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, Center for the Arts, UB North Campus. The performance will be presented by Beechwood Continuing Care and proceeds will benefit Beechwood's Welcome Home initiative.

The Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo will present Spring Awakening on Thursday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.

Fresh from her memorable work with life-changing but unconventional "maverick" teachers, University at Buffalo education professor Catherine Cornbleth now turns to a universal challenge in the secondary school arena: how to engage students so they feel personally connected in class while teaching them to excel in today's standardized test-driven academic culture.

The University at Buffalo Center for Educational Collaboration continues its mission of giving Buffalo Public School students access to higher education with its latest $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, through the Higher Education Services Corporation, money that will help create a program that encourages underprivileged youth to consider attending college.

The University at Buffalo School of Management Alumni Association (SOMAA) will hold a breakfast seminar on understanding financial statements from 7:30-9:30 a.m. on March 15 in 104 Alfiero Center on UB's North Campus.

Bot Wars are back! Homemade, remote-controlled robots constructed by students in the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will duke it out on Friday Feb. 25, in the lobby of the Student Union on the UB North Campus.

A team of four seniors in the University at Buffalo School of Management has won the fifth annual Becker Professional Education Case Competition.

Most Ponzi schemes, like almost everything else these days, enjoy a limited life in the public eye. Despite its explosive nature, the same would have been true of the Madoff con, except that nobody cooled Bernie's marks out.