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The University at Buffalo School of Social Work will help to make the holidays just a little bit brighter for Western New York children and adolescents with HIV/AIDS as part of the PACT (Parents and Children Together) program's annual holiday gift-giving party at 4 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday, Dec. 17) in Hamlin House, 432 Franklin St., Buffalo.

A University at Buffalo labor and employment sociologist says before we can resolve the economic crisis, we need to understand how we got into it, then get out and stay out.

Using the bells and whistles of a state-of-the-art entertainment arcade, a University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education project aims to improve the driving habits of teenagers at the very top of the risk pool, and at the same time bring child and parent together for a happier, better functioning family.

When late-night talk show host David Letterman tossed a few jabs at the University at Buffalo following the Bulls' Dec. 5 Mid-American Conference football championship victory over Dave's alma mater Ball State, UB officials convened and responded in a fashion befitting a flagship institution of the State University of New York and one of the nation's prominent public research universities: Our own Top 10 List.

Graduate students in the University at Buffalo's Department of Urban and Regional Planning will present a report on the need and opportunity for hotel development in Niagara Falls, N.Y., at a presentation to be held at 6:30 p.m. today (Dec. 10, 2008) in the first floor Council Chambers of Niagara Falls City Hall, 745 Main St.

University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson today asked Democratic members of the New York State Senate to resist making further cuts to higher education and to support policy changes that would help UB grow and increase its economic impact in Western New York.

Is there someone on your gift list who could use a little help opening the jar of candied cherries for the holiday fruitcake? Or needs to raise the thermostat without getting up from the recliner? Maybe there is a child on your list who likes to color but could use a little practice staying inside those pesky lines? If the answer is "Yes," University at Buffalo's Center for Assistive Technology can make shopping as easy as "Ho Ho Ho."

The Asian Studies Program at the University at Buffalo in collaboration with the UB/Public Schools Partnership, will present an "East Asia Seminar for Teachers" on alternating Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings from Jan. 15 to March 26 in the Buffalo Teacher Resource Center, 150 Lower Terrace.

Lynn T. Kozlowski, professor and chair of the Department of Health Behavior and interim dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions since September 2007, has been appointed dean of the school after a national search.

In treating flare-ups in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a major cause of disability and the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S, what was old is important again.