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Buffalo is fast becoming a center for research, education and new practices in cybersecurity and computer forensics, according to the hosts of a workshop on these topics to be held March 31 in the Center for Tomorrow on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

This year, the Clarkson Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo is Lawrence Frank, Ph.D., internationally regarded author whose research centers on the interaction between land use, travel behavior, air quality and public health.

Graduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning have proposed a strategy for the large-scale retail development of the former Glenny Drive apartment complex, 1827 Fillmore Ave., in Buffalo's East Side's commercially underserved Kensington Heights neighborhood.

New evidence from pediatric dentists at the University at Buffalo has shown that, contrary to previous findings, most young children with decayed "baby" teeth are not underweight, and actually may be overweight or at risk of being overweight.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Pennsylvania were the first to demonstrate that two intracellular events, both stimulated by the same cell receptor, can provoke different behaviors in mammals.

Eleven University at Buffalo faculty members were named on eight patents issued to The Research Foundation of State University of New York in 2005. Two of these patented technologies have already been licensed to companies that will bring new products to the market.

Isaac Ehrlich, UB Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Economics in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, and Melvin H. Baker Professor of American Enterprise in the UB School of Management, has been named a SUNY Distinguished Professor for having achieved national or international prominence and an established reputation in his or her field of expertise.

University at Buffalo chemists have for the first time identified at wastewater treatment plants the metabolites of two antibiotics and a medical imaging agent.

Niagara Falls, a site-specific installation by Adam Cvijanovic (pronounced Siv-ano-vich), opens in the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus, with a reception from 5:30-8 p.m. on March 23. An exhibition walkthrough with the artist and curator Sandra Firmin will begin at 5 p.m.

Chicago-based artist Kelly Kaczynski (pronounced Ka-zin-ski) debuts her installation, Scene from 'Olympus Manger,' with an opening reception in the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus, from 5:30-8 p.m. on, March 23. An exhibition walkthrough with the artist and curator Sandra Firmin will begin at 5 p.m.