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Urban planner and researcher Robert Mark Silverman, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo, is critical of community development projects and processes that serve vested interests while discouraging or denying input to others, including the indigent, poor and working classes who have to live with results.

Students in the five departments and multiple degree programs in the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health and Health Professions will benefit from a common core curriculum to be developed under a two-year, $257,000 grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. The new curriculum, being developed around the common theme of prevention, population health and wellness, is expected to serve as a model for other colleges and universities.

Amgen, a Fortune 500 company that has pioneered new treatments based on advances in recombinant DNA and molecular biology, has awarded three grants totaling $145,000 to the University at Buffalo Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences for fellowships in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics research.

The UB chapter of the Student National Medical Association will sponsor a health fair to increase community awareness about a wide range of health issues from noon to 4 p.m. March 18 in the Buffalo Museum of Sciences. It will be free an dopen to the public.

A researcher with the University at Buffalo's Great Lakes Program is leading a study focusing on how flow patterns impact the health of lakes Erie and Ontario with the goal of better understanding the relationship between physical forces in the lakes and their biological resources.

The role of the University at Buffalo in the future of health care in Western New York will be the topic of the next "UB at Noon -- Downtown" presentation at 11:30 a.m. March 29 in Chef's restaurant, 291 Seneca St., Buffalo.

The University at Buffalo School of Management Alumni Association (SOMAA) will hold a breakfast seminar exploring health care costs for businesses and nonprofit organizations from 7:30-10 a.m. on March 21 in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Whether it's in reference to forms of energy, housing or transportation, many people assume there is a uniform definition of "sustainability." But Bryan Norton, professor of philosophy in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, believes that people's ideas about what is sustainable are largely influenced by their culture and community.

Pianist and conductor Charles Czarnecki will return to his hometown to perform as part of the live band in the national tour of "Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway," which will be performed at the University at Buffalo at 8 p.m. on March 24 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the North (Amherst) Campus.

Journalist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright and director Nora Ephron has cancelled her plans to participate in the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series with a lecture on March 28.