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The University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions is presenting a spring seminar series on addictions-related topics featuring national experts beginning on March 9.

"Poetics Plus," the poetry series presented by the Poetics Program in the Department of English in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, is back this semester with another lineup of notable poets.

Kari Winter, associate professor in the Department of American Studies, will discuss "From Vermont Abolitionist to Virginia Slaveholder: Benjamin Franklin Prentiss and the Familial Politics of Antebellum America" on Feb. 28 in the inaugural Critical Studies Seminar presented by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute.

Jonathan A. Dandes and Gerald S. Lippes have been reappointed to the 10-member University at Buffalo Council, the university's local governing council.

The "diabetes clock" may start ticking in women years in advance of a medical diagnosis of the disease, new research has shown.

A just-published collection of essays, "Progressive Black Masculinities," edited by Athena D. Mutua, associate professor in the University at Buffalo Law School, focuses on reinventing the ideal of the black man, suggesting new models that transcend the cultural racism and violence of the old ideal.

The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo has entered into an agreement with the Buffalo Public Schools to provide specialized group treatment and violence-prevention programs to help students who have been suspended return to their regular classrooms.

"Good research universities are good business" for their surrounding communities, and UB, with its plan to grow by 40 percent in the next 13 years, is no exception, President John Simpson told members of the Western New York legislative delegation Feb. 8 at a meeting to discuss state support of UB programs.

Jean-Michel Cousteau, ocean explorer and environmentalist, will speak at the University at Buffalo at 8 p.m. March 1 in the Mainstage theater in the Center of the Arts on the North (Amherst) Campus, as part of the university's Distinguished Speakers Series.

A University at Buffalo program that exemplifies the university's commitment to creating a pipeline to public higher education for kindergarten through high school students has expanded from one to two Buffalo schools, thanks to a $485,000 grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation.