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If there is a common thread that runs through the many facets of Joseph A. Gardella's professional life, it's advocacy. A professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, Gardella advocates for the right of children to learn science, for the right of college students to have access to the best science education, for the right of disabled students to fulfill their highest potential, for the right of women and minority faculty members to experience advancement opportunities and for the rights of citizens to fully understand the environmental science that affects their neighborhoods and their health.

Kemper E. Lewis, Ph.D., is borrowing from an ages-old, medical-school teaching method, using "product dissection" to instruct his students in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo.

Three faculty members in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work have been appointed associate deans.

The University at Buffalo ranks 11th among 2,700 U.S. accredited universities in international student enrollment, according to an annual report on international academic mobility released yesterday by the Institute of International Education.

A new study being conducted in the University at Buffalo is expected to make it easier for clinicians to predict those at high risk of experiencing sudden cardiac death, which results from disruption of normal heart rhythm, and who would benefit from a life-saving implantable defibrillator.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Keller Williams at 8 p.m. on Jan. 21 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

It took him 16 years of studying part time on nights and weekends while working full time and raising a family to complete his engineering degree at the University at Buffalo, but Felix Smist, B.S. '65, kept at it. To honor his father and help students who experience similar situations, Felix's son James Smist, B.S. '80, and his wife, Mary, have established the Felix Smist Scholarship at UB.

Professor James A. Gardner has been named to a new civil justice professorship in the University at Buffalo Law School, created through the generosity of alumnus Joseph W. Belluck and his wife, Laura L. Aswad.

We love our wheels, even as we age, but when driving is no longer an option, many of us will be stranded by myriad obstacles unless public transportation systems are able to meet our changing needs.

Brian Greene, physicist and groundbreaking string theorist, will speak at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus as the next speaker in UB's Distinguished Speakers Series.