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Fifteen history majors at the University at Buffalo have been awarded more than $39,000 in scholarships by the Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences in recognition of academic excellence, for displaying leadership and other positive personal qualities, and to pursue study abroad.

The University at Buffalo School of Management and the Not For Profit Resource Center, an initiative of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, are partnering to help local community service agencies through an innovative new educational technology, Digital Access.

The effort to grow the University at Buffalo and dramatically transform its three campuses has taken a major step forward with the awarding of a master planning contract to a team of internationally renowned architectural, planning, landscape and design firms.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Blue Suede Shoes - The Ultimate Elvis Bash at 8 p.m. on Jan. 18 the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on July 13.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Craig Ferguson at 8 p.m. on Oct. 5 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by the Student Association. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on July 13.

Blood vessels that have been tissue-engineered from bone marrow adult stem cells may in the future serve as a patient's own source of new blood vessels following a coronary bypass or other procedures that require vessel replacement, according to new research from the University at Buffalo Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

A consortium of theoretical physicists co-founded by a University at Buffalo faculty member has been created to train more U.S. graduate students in theoretical high-energy particle physics calculations to counter "outsourcing" in their field that has allowed the U.S. to lag behind in this area of high-profile, global science.

James Arthur Conway, a professor who taught in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education from 1967 until retiring in 2000, died June 28 in Siesta Key, Fla., of cancer. A former resident of Amherst, he was 74.

A $500,000 gift from Ravinder K. Bansal, Ph.D., and his wife, Pratibha Bansal, M.D., of Clarence, to the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be used for costs associated with the construction of a new engineering building on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.

A blood component called cystatin C, used to test for early-stage kidney impairment, also may be a very early marker for those at risk of developing a condition known as pre-diabetes, a study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown.