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Controversial and Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore will open the 21st season of the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series for 2007-08. The series also will feature lectures by human rights activist and author Ishmael Beah; Steven D. Levitt, an economist at the University of Chicago and co-author of the bestseller "Freakonomics;" Harold Ford Jr., chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council; magazine editor and author Tina Brown; and award-winning actor James Earl Jones.

WBFO 88.7 FM, a public service of the University at Buffalo, has received a grant from the New York State Music Fund in support of its new all-music HD radio station -- WBFO XPoNential -- and the WBFO XPoNential Buffalo Music Project. The project consists of two components that will provide WBFO's regional audience of more than 1.15 million people with expanded on-air access to the music of Western New York.

Maurizio Trevisan, founding dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo, has been named executive vice chancellor and chief executive officer of the University of Nevada Health Sciences System, the Nevada System of Higher Education.

John Yeh, M.D., an internationally recognized reproductive endocrinologist who is professor and chair of the Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is one of eight individuals selected to be 2007-08 Jefferson Science Fellows.

The acute shortage of registered nurses in the U.S. could be lessened by adopting tactics used successfully in other segments of the economy, including sweetening incentives for experienced nurses to stay on the job and enticing nurses who have left the profession back into the market, a new study proposes.

As a follow up to the 2006 visit to University at Buffalo by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the UB Asian Studies Program will offer introductory courses in the classical Tibetan language in the 2007-08 academic year taught by noted Tibetan scholar Craig Preston.

A University at Buffalo study published in the July 2007 issue the Journal of Nuclear Medicine shows that a newer imaging method called positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging, or PET MPI, provides a more accurate "picture" of coronary obstruction, costs 30 percent less, reduces the need for follow-up invasive procedures by 50 percent and produces excellent clinical outcomes.

Residents of northern New York attending the University at Buffalo have been named to the Dean's List for the spring 2007 semester for achieving a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher.

Residents of New Jersey attending the University at Buffalo have been named to the Dean's List for the spring 2007 semester for achieving a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher.

Residents of Sullivan and Orange counties attending the University at Buffalo have been named to the Dean's List for the spring 2007 semester for achieving a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher.