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Long lines of passengers have an effect on the speed with which airport security screeners do certain aspects of their jobs, according to a study by researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo. The study's findings demonstrate empirically for the first time that security screeners do speed up when lines are long, but only when inspecting laptop computers.

In its third attempt in four years, an all-woman student team from the University at Buffalo's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has won the National Community Pharmacists Association Pruitt-Schutte Student Business Plan Competition.

Michael Greenberg, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfield Redevelopment, will be the 2007 Nan and Will Clarkson Chair in Urban and Regional Planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.

The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present the musical "City of Angels" in a full production with orchestra Nov. 14-18.

In its initial public demonstration, the world's first seismic testing apparatus for nonstructural components performed exactly as designed last Friday at the University at Buffalo and MCEER, providing engineers with the first realistic, experimental method of simulating and evaluating how earthquakes damage building equipment, contents and components.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present "Three Phantoms in Concert" at 8 p.m. on Nov. 16 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by M&T Bank.

L. Nelson Hopkins, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurosurgery in the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and director of UB's Toshiba Stroke Research Center, has received the third annual Leaders in Endovascular Education (LIVE) award from Cordis Endovascular and Cordis Neurovascular, Inc.

With a record fall enrollment of 28,054 that includes its brightest freshman class in history and a net gain of nearly 100 new faculty members over the past three years, the University at Buffalo is building momentum as it implements plans to rise to the ranks of the nation's top public research universities, UB President John B. Simpson declared today in his second annual community address.

A professor of biochemistry in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has received a two-year, $418,363 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a drug aimed at an iron-based neurodegenerative disease called aceruloplasminemia.

The known and forgotten meanings and histories of human trafficking and its different cultural milieus and complex forms will be addressed during the Third Annual International Conference in the Humanities organized by the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo.