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What really happens after you place an order for a Big Mac or a Whopper with Cheese? Jerry M. Newman, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the University at Buffalo School of Management, knows because he worked undercover in seven fast food restaurants across the country, observing operations from the top down -- from the biggest management whoppers to the smallest fries at the fry station.

High school poets will have the opportunity to have their work judged by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet by participating in the fourth annual UB Poetry Contest, sponsored by the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences.

In a move designed to highlight its regions-focused mission, the University at Buffalo's Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth has changed its name to the University at Buffalo Regional Institute.

Schering-Plough has provided $125,000 to the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences to fund the training of a graduate fellow in the school's Pharmaceutics Program. The gift, which will come in $25,000 increments over five years, will support a stipend, tuition and research funding for the student over a five-year period.

Swimmers and scuba divers can improve their swimming endurance and breathing capacity through targeted training of the respiratory muscles, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.

The Center for the Moving Image (CMI) at the University at Buffalo has commissioned a ballet by noted choreographer Brian Reeder that will premiere in Buffalo with the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company and, during the company's performance there in March, be presented to the City of New Orleans as a gift from the City of Buffalo.

A documentary film co-directed by University at Buffalo faculty member Sarah Elder has been added to the prestigious National Film Registry as part of a select group of films that includes "Rocky," "Blazing Saddles" and "Halloween."

The 14th edition of the Buffalo Film Seminars, the semester-long series of screenings and discussions sponsored by the University at Buffalo and the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center, will open on Jan. 16 with a lineup of films that has been determined by the series' audiences.

"Human Trials," a virtual reality drama, will be performed in the University at Buffalo Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 15; the one-time-only performance will be preceded by a reception at 5 p.m.

The freeze dates for many small- and intermediate-sized lakes in the Northeast and parts of the Midwest will come later than usual this year, in part as a reflection of continuing global warming, but also because of a stronger-than-expected El Nino phenomenon, says a University at Buffalo limnologist, a scientist who studies inland bodies of water.