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Some 5,500 students are candidates to receive degrees during the University at Buffalo's general commencement and 13 other commencement ceremonies to be held May 4, May 10-13 and May 19.

Jacob D. Hyman, former dean of the UB Law School and long-time faculty member, died April 8 in his home in Edgewater, Fla. He was 97.

High school students who love physics and the arts are invited to apply for the University at Buffalo's second annual Physics & Arts Summer Institute for high school students, sponsored by the Department of Physics in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

Chemical engineers from the University at Buffalo have collaborated with scientists from other institutions to solve a critical bottleneck in the transport and capture of virus nanoparticles, making possible a device that could rapidly sample and detect infectious biological agents, such as viruses.

Chijioke Okoro, an MBA student in the School of Management at the University at Buffalo, was named one of the four "Best Presenters" at the KeyBank/Ohio State University Minority MBA Student Case Competition held recently at KeyBank's corporate headquarters in Cleveland.

If you're in the market for a weird, intriguing and exciting Saturday night, head down to Buffalo's Central Terminal, 495 Paderewski Drive, for a multi-media marriage of ghosts, puppets, mechanical spiders, robotic dance partners, hallucinatory discovery and industrial progress -- together at last at an event produced by University at Buffalo robotic artist Don Paul Swain.

Five graduates of the University at Buffalo Law School and one non-alumnus will be honored for their valuable contributions to the legal profession, community and university at the 45th annual UB Law Alumni Association meeting and dinner to be held at 6 p.m. May 3 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.

The 14th American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) will be held in the University at Buffalo's Natural Sciences Complex on UB's North (Amherst) Campus on May 18-20.

University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson will meet with members of Western New York's leading young professional groups to present his ambitious plan to grow UB by 40 percent and discuss its potential impact on the regional economy.

As part of the UB 2020 strategic planning process, the university has initiated a project to evaluate the many components that make up the current student systems and to explore ways to improve and integrate them.