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Students in most dental schools are taught to refer tobacco-using patients they encounter in their clinical training to call a "quit line." The University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine is taking a different tack. In one of the few such programs in the nation, third- and fourth-year UB dental students are using non-judgmental tobacco counseling to encourage their patients to quit.

Patients admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit already are seriously ill, so the last thing they need is a new infection. Unfortunately, statistics show that as many as 25 percent of all patients admitted to the ICU and placed on ventilators develop pneumonia, which can be fatal. Ironically, it turns out that the patient's own dental plaque is a major source of germs that cause ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Anne E. Meyer of Eggertsville, research associate professor in the Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences in the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, and director of the UB site of the National Science Foundation-designated Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces, was elected chair of the Council of Societies of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) during the group's annual meeting held recently in Washington, D.C.

The University at Buffalo Alumni Association will honor 12 individuals with achievement awards at a black-tie gala to be held April 20 in the Adam's Mark Hotel, 120 Church St.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have described a novel pathway by which estradiol, the primary estrogen in humans, aids in maintaining bone density, a function critical to avoiding osteoporosis.

Six research projects have been awarded seed funding through the UB 2020 Scholars Fund, a program run by the Office of the Vice President for Research that is designed to fund new projects within the strategic strength areas identified by the UB 2020 strategic planning process.

The 2007 lecture series sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning continues in April with one of the world's most important scholars in the field of architectural education, Joan Ockman, participating as the school's 2007 Will and Nan Clarkson Architecture Chair.

Mark D. Gottdiener of Buffalo, professor in the Department of Sociology in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, will present the 2007 Roth and Symonds Endowed Lecture at the Yale School of Architecture on March 30.

A light bulb exchange program that encourages students to trade in their old incandescent bulbs for energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) is reaping economic and environmental benefits for the University at Buffalo only months after the initial launch.

The UB Anderson Gallery is proud to present "Buffalo Scaled," an exhibition featuring projects created by undergraduate students from the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo. The exhibition opens with a public reception on March 31 at 6 p.m.