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Cynthia A. Ambres, M.D., and Mark J. Czarnecki, have been appointed to the University at Buffalo Council by Gov. George E. Pataki.

The project called for the design of a 24,000 square-foot day-care center for patients with Alzheimer's disease and a 120-unit housing complex for the frail elderly. Architect Kenneth MacKay coupled his knowledge of the psychological, aesthetic and emotional effects of natural light with the special requirements of facilities that serve the elderly, their hands-on staff and the clients they serve. The result is the Total Aging in Place Project (TAIPP) for the Weinberg Campus.

The Cutting Edge Lecture Series, a series of free Saturday-morning seminars in which top University at Buffalo scholars in the arts and sciences give presentations aimed at increasing public awareness of rapidly advancing fields, will open its 2005 edition on March 5 with a lecture on the Human Genome Project by an internationally known UB philosopher.

The events and ideas that led Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation are the focus of a national traveling exhibition, "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation," on display through April 15 in the Reference Room of the Undergraduate Library in Capen Hall on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

"LABOR," a benefit for the Western New York 'Zine Archive, soon to be housed in the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection, will be held March 4 at Soundlab, 110 Pearl St.

The Center for the Arts will present "Music is Art Live @ The Center," a series of live concerts by local musicians and area artist exhibitions to be held Tuesdays (March 1, 8, 22, 29 and April 5, 12, 19) in the Center for the Arts Atrium during March and April. Artist exhibitions will begin at 7 p.m., and music will start at 9 p.m. All events will be recorded for future television broadcast.

A virtual-reality drama by University at Buffalo researchers -- aimed at transforming the movie-going experience -- is driving the development of increasingly "self-aware" computational agents that are able to improvise responses to the spontaneous actions of human users.

The premise: Teams of budding young entrepreneurs pit their skills and savvy against one another in an attempt to win praise and reward from an accomplished marketing pro. Sound familiar? No, it's not the latest episode of Donald Trump's hit reality-TV show "The Apprentice." It's a new three-credit course, called "The Marketers," modeled after the TV show and offered this semester at the University at Buffalo.

Life in Singapore is good for Arabella Lyon. She may spend a morning sitting in a state-of-the-art library, then "stroll to a fusion food cafe overlooking lush gardens of flowering trees and palms." Or she may spend a day with her children browsing bookstores where the English collections are larger than at home, and then take a swim in the Straits of Malacca. Sure beats shivering along the banks of Lake Erie. Or on the winter tundra of the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus.

In a run-down section of city street in Niagara Falls, N.Y. -- flanked by abandoned homes and across from a shuttered hospital -- a dilapidated old dormitory for nurses is getting a new start as transitional housing for homeless women and their children. The building's rehabilitation is being made possible, in large measure, by the efforts of University at Buffalo law students attracted to an unglamorous, roll-up-your-sleeves niche of law practice known as affordable housing.