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Kazimierz Braun of Getzville, professor of theatre and dance in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, is a historian, poet, translator, essayist, novelist, playwright, scholar and remains a leading theater director in his native Poland. On top of that, he is having a banner year. This year his work is the subject of a new 335-page book of essays, "Horizons of Theatre II: Kazimierz Braun's Way."

Increasingly, the term "U.S. citizen" fails to include the rights of a large and growing public that includes immigrants and U.S.-born Latina/os, according to Angela Valenzuela, Haskew Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin.

Schizophrenia researchers historically have aligned themselves into two opposing camps: structuralists and functionalists. Structuralists have pursued the idea that the brains of schizophrenics show structural changes in the cortex and brain stem. Functionalists have held to the dopamine antagonist theory: that the neurotransmitter dopamine is malfunctioning, causing the disease's characteristic delusions and hallucinations. UB researchers appear to have broken the stalemate.

"ON WORDS: A Conference on the Life and Work of Robert Creeley," to be held Oct. 12-14, will feature presentations and readings by some of America's premiere contemporary poets, critics, translators, essayists and theorists -- all focused on the literary production of one of their most influential colleagues.

The latest enhancement of the Web-based Regional Knowledge Network of UB's Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth is the addition of 79 data variables and dynamic mapping capacities within its the Health & Human services topic.

University at Buffalo researchers and their collaborators at other institutions have been awarded a four-year, $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, under the NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) initiative, to develop semiconductor-based terahertz detectors that can be integrated seamlessly with conventional electronics. The grant is one of only 10 that the NSF has funded from more than 400 applications received.

Judith Heumann, a leading activist in the disability-rights movement, will be the keynote speaker for the fifth annual "Gender Week: Gender Matters," to be held Oct. 9-13 on the University at Buffalo North and South campuses.

Ronald C. Kessler, Ph.D., Harvard University professor and a major figure in the field of mental health in the U.S. and abroad, will present the J. Warren Perry Lecture on Oct. 13 at 3:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.

When an explosion, accidental cremation or a fire set deliberately to cover a crime destroys a body, precious little may remain to link it to a life once lived. Yet even among the ashes, a team of forensic dental researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown that evidence exists that can help identify human remains when all else -- flesh, bones, teeth, DNA -- is lost.

At a time when many U.S. universities are just beginning to navigate China's complex political environment and establish new ventures there, the University at Buffalo is marking the 25th anniversary of its successful, and historic, partnerships in China that were the first such agreements with any U.S. university following the normalization of relations between the U.S. and the Peoples Republic of China.