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The University at Buffalo's Center for 21st Century Music will continue its impressive offerings this month with a concert featuring the Slee Sinfonietta, UB's professional chamber orchestra, presenting an intriguing program of computer music.

The rate of growth of total research and development expenditures at the University at Buffalo more than tripled during the 2006 fiscal year. Funding rose to $297.9 million, an increase of $30.6 million -- or 11.5 percent -- over the previous year.

Brothers Vinod K. Rustgi, M.D., and Anil K. Rustgi, M.D., along with their mother, Kamla Rustgi, are honoring their father's memory by endowing the Moti Lal Rustgi Professorship in the Department of Physics in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences.

State University of New York Chancellor John R. Ryan will be on hand when the University at Buffalo recognizes outstanding student and faculty achievement during the third annual Celebration of Academic Excellence, to be held April 19 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

Douglas H. Clements, a University at Buffalo professor who has spent his career ensuring that underrepresented children's potential to learn math does not go unrealized, has been named a member of the President's National Mathematics Advisory Panel.

Samina Raja, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has been awarded a $105,000 contract from the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus to study physical activity levels among the 6,000 employees on the medical campus in relation to improvements made to its infrastructure and streetscape.

Four University at Buffalo faculty members -- Francis M. Gasparini, David A. Gerber, William J. Jusko and Frank C. Zagare -- have been named UB Distinguished Professors for achieving distinction and being leaders in their fields.

Stuart Parkin, an experimental physicist with the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., will speak on "The Spin on Electronics" at the 13th annual Moti Lal Rustgi Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. April 6 in 225 Natural Sciences Complex, North Campus.

The critically acclaimed Ives Quartet will be in residence at the University at Buffalo April 20-22, performing two concerts -- including the sixth concert of the Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle -- as well as conducting a master class.

Denis Hayes, a leading environmental activist, solar-energy expert and organizer of the first Earth Day, is bringing to the University at Buffalo his message about how alternative energy, especially solar power, if aggressively harnessed, can combat some of the dangers of climate change.