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Four University at Buffalo faculty members have been appointed SUNY Distinguished Professors by the SUNY Board of Trustees.

"Brilliant, incisive and unafraid" is how noted architect and urban designer Marilyn Jordan Taylor describes Joan Ockman, the 2007 Will and Nan Clarkson Chair in Architecture at the University at Buffalo.

The legal profession, its associations, firms and law schools have spent years and considerable money encouraging lawyers to do more pro bono work. A new study by University at Buffalo sociologist Robert Granfield, Ph.D., finds, however, that mandatory law school programs, bar association campaigns and good will are not the principle spurs provoking lawyers to work for the public good.

New and exciting ideas about our built surroundings will be on exhibition this week when the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning presents its annual Atelier, an extensive exhibition of work produced during year by the undergraduate and graduate students in architecture and planning studios.

Bruce D. McCombe, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and longtime UB administrator who most recently served as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named dean of the college after a national search.

It is clear that Congress and the major American political parties are more ideologically polarized than they were a generation ago, but are Americans themselves more deeply polarized? This and other questions about America's political identity will be discussed in "America Divided: The Polarization of American Politics," a symposium to be held April 17.

Have you shown up late for work, disappointed family members or discovered you couldn't remember what happened the night before because you had too much to drink? Are you concerned that you might have a problem with alcohol? One in every 13 adults suffers from alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence. In an effort to help people recognize the signs of an alcohol problem and, in turn, seek help, the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will offer free, anonymous screenings for alcohol use disorders on National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD) on April 5.

At its 2007 annual conference this month, the Music Library Association (MLA) presented its rarely conferred Special Achievement Award to Nancy Bren Nuzzo of Williamsville, director of the Music Library and Special Collections Library of the University at Buffalo.

University at Buffalo's Office of Community Relations will host the 6th Annual UB Community Forum on March 29 from 7-9 p.m. in 105 Harriman Hall on UB's South (Main Street) Campus.

Coronary revascularization with stenting or balloon angioplasty combined with optimal medical therapy is no more effective in preventing a heart attack, other major cardiovascular events or death in patients with stable heart disease, than optimal medical therapy alone, results of a new study conducted in 50 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada has shown.