News Releases

John C. Mohawk, Ph.D., of Buffalo and the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, Gowanda, died Sunday (Dec. 10, 2006) in his home in Buffalo. He was 61.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present "100 Years of Broadway" at 8 p.m. on March 24 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust has awarded Mark Gottdiener, Ph.D., of Buffalo, professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo, an endowed fellowship to support his residency at the Institute for Urban and Regional Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, during the Spring 2007 semester.

A documentary film about Buffalo artist Steve Kurtz, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo, will be among 71 short films to be screened next month at the Sundance Film Festival's 2007 Independent Film and World Cinema Competitions.

Recommendations of the Berger Commission on Health Care Facilities present an opportunity to create a health-care delivery system for Western New York that will assure the highest quality of care for patients, as well the highest quality of training for those who will meet their future health-care needs, David L. Dunn, University at Buffalo vice president for health sciences, testified today at a New York State Senate public hearing.

A monoclonal antibody developed by researchers at the University at Buffalo has been shown to extend significantly the survival of mice with human breast-cancer tumors and to inhibit the cancer's spread to the lungs in the animals by more than 50 percent.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has awarded a $579,325 grant to Amy Hequembourg, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions to study the role of gender and sexual identity in alcohol use and victimization.

Buffalo resident Jetaun Jones has been named "Protege of the Year" by the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program, a joint venture by the University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the UB Center for Urban Studies.

Research by endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo has shown that one-third of men with type 2 diabetes who have low testosterone concentrations are likely to have anemia, due to two mechanisms that suppress the formation of red blood cells.

A study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, has found that people's gender and ethnicity predicted their immediate response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their general state of health over the next two years.