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Whether it's detecting the image of a knife on an airport X-ray scanner or detecting a hairline crack in an aircraft component, Colin G. Drury, Ph.D., has made a career out of studying how people can be taught to spot very rare events that carry very high consequences.

The University at Buffalo and several other educational institutions have been awarded $800,000 by the National Science Foundation to establish a Western New York Computational and Data Science Grid.

University at Buffalo Director of Athletics Warde J. Manuel announced today that head football coach Jim Hofher will not return to the Bulls' sidelines in 2006, but that he and his staff will complete the 2005 season.

Entire rooms black with mold. Boats sitting in trees, miles from shore. Hospitals with windows broken -- not just by the storm, but by patients and staff desperate for fresh air. City officials standing at major intersections wearing sandwich boards that said "Boil water" since there was no other way to get the word out. Enough solid waste to fill 11 World Trade Center Towers. These are some of the vivid pictures that were drawnat the University at Buffalo by six researchers from various disciplines who presented findings to colleagues about what they saw during reconnaissance trips to the Gulf Coast in September and October.

The new class of students at the University at Buffalo Law School may be more diverse in background and experience than any in recent memory. Of the 247 first-year students enrolled this fall at the UB Law School, about half possess the prototypical law-school student portfolio, but many come to the school from wide-ranging paths that have taken them all over the world.

Paras N. Prasad, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been named one of the Scientific American 50, the prestigious magazine's annual list of "outstanding acts of leadership in science and technology from the past year."

The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center) in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to fund a second five-year cycle of its Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment (RERC-UD).

Coordinating police, residents and campus officials in an effort to crack down on disruptive student parties in University Heights is just one of the many projects of the Regional Community Policing Center, a University at Buffalo initiative that works to reduce crime and increase safety in seven neighborhoods surrounding the South (Main Street) Campus.

A new study at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) funded by a $1.6 million federal award aims to help eliminate the communication gap between researchers who study addictions-related issues and develop new treatment interventions, and practitioners who work with patients in treatment settings delivering therapeutic services every day.

James Cathcart, the 2005 John and Magda McHale Fellow at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, is an architect, artist, designer and planner of national and international museums, public institutions and events. Known as well for his exhibition design and intriguing interactive installations, Cathcart will present a free public lecture on Nov. 9 at the University at Buffalo.