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Food systems planner Samina Raja, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo School of Architectural and Planning, has been involved for several years with a number of successful projects with the Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP) and other community groups that are helping make Buffalo a healthier city by improving its food environment. It is one aspect of her continuing effort to understand and propose ways through which urban planners can strengthen a community's food system.

At the turn of the last century, the University at Buffalo's "Alma Mater Song" swelled the hearts of the convocation by exalting the antler'd zeitgeist of the era. But it is just one of the scores of songs written for and about UB by faculty members, students and well-known local and national composers over the past century. Many of them are showcased in "University School Songs: 1903-2008," a new exhibit mounted by the UB Music Library in Baird Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning recently received awards of excellence in their fields of study.

The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will again offer its exciting and educational Summer Dance Program.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will welcome Tony Bennett at 8 p.m. on Dec. 14 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The concert will be presented by The Derico of East Amherst Corporation.

Building a scale model of a functional steel bridge is a tough assignment, but students from the University at Buffalo's Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering recently created one that took second place overall at the 2008 regional American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) conference hosted by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

State Senator Mary Lou Rath and Moog Inc. will be honored at the University at Buffalo's Business Partners Day luncheon to be held at noon on June 6 in the Hyatt Regency.

Engineering students from the University at Buffalo's Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering recently created a concrete canoe that beat out competitors from some of the region's top engineering schools, taking second place overall at the 2008 regional American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) conference hosted by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

On May 22 at approximately 12:45 a.m. University Police received a complaint of an armed robbery outside of 305 Flint Village on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Albany-area and Hudson Valley residents attending the University at Buffalo recently were inducted into the Omicron Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.