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The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present Zodiaque Dance Company Oct. 21-25 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Performances will be held Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Mark Knopfler, a multiple Grammy Award winner as the lead singer/songwriter for Dire Straits, will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 28 in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Lea Salonga on Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Oct. 17 for Virginia Leary, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the University at Buffalo Law School for 19 years, who died April 8 in Geneva, Switzerland, where she had lived since retiring in 1995.

The University at Buffalo's Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) will host a business lunch workshop series designed to help professionals improve their businesses. Workshops will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Ramada Hotel & Conference Center, 2402 North Forest Rd., Amherst. The cost of each program is $59, including lunch.

The Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association has announced that "Bridging the Gap," a project for Buffalo's D'Youville College developed by University at Buffalo graduate students studying under Daniel Hess, Ph.D., associate professor of urban and regional planning at UB, has been selected for the chapter's 2009 Outstanding Student Project Award.

University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson today rallied community support for the UB 2020 strategic plan, urging an end to the status quo hindering UB's ability to help revitalize the regional economy and become one of the nation's premier public research universities.

Would you love to know how to stop your two-year-old toddler's tantrums in the supermarket, teach him to share blocks at nursery school or to help her behave nicely during play dates? Did you know there is an "off switch" for crying that all babies are born with?

Tom Huber, a shop supervisor at Eberl Iron Works Inc., a metal fabrication and industrial framing company, has long known that different people learn at different rates. He knows this from more than 14 years of training people on the factory floor in Eberl's fabrication shop. At the same time, he needs new hires to get up to speed as quickly as possible so they can become productive team members.

Buffalo's detritus and blight, what Hadas Steiner, associate professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, calls "its bounty of domestic and industrial flotsam," has long been the stuff of Dennis Maher's art.