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Civil engineering students from five universities will put their high-rise building models to the test Jan. 29 on the shake table at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences' Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory during the first Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition.

UB's Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender will present its ninth annual International Women's Film Festival at 7 p.m. on six successive Thursday evenings -- from Jan. 27 through March 3 -- in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre, 639 Main St.

Two University at Buffalo faculty members who have spent years researching a concept called contextual vocabulary acquisition, in which readers use clues to figure out meanings of unfamiliar words, plan to turn their findings into a curriculum designed to improve reading skills for students nationwide.

A project conducted by The Center for Industrial Effectiveness at UB in collaboration with Delphi Thermal of Lockport to increase the company's competitiveness has been named "Project of the Year" by the University Economic Development Association, a national organization.

Specialists in treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are are conducting a clinical trial of an innovative treatment program that centers on reducing symptoms by changing the way patients think about and respond to potential IBS episodes.

The University at Buffalo's Arts and Sciences Libraries have constructed an online exhibit celebrating Albert Einstein's life and achievements with links to manuscripts and papers, scientific articles, related news and events, biographic data, photographs and audio-visual materials, games and thought experiments, as well as to a site designed to help kids think like physicists.

Paul McAfee, CEO of eXubrio, LLC, has been appointed entrepreneur-in-residence at the University at Buffalo Technology Incubator, part of the UB Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR). McAfee will help UB-affiliated startups and faculty entrepreneurs in developing their emerging businesses.

Improving how decision-makers respond in the minutes and hours that follow the first reports of a natural disaster like the recent tsunami or a manmade incident, such as a chemical accident or a terrorist attack, is the focus of a research project at the University at Buffalo's Center for Multisource Information Fusion.

Biometrics, the science of identifying individuals based on their physical, chemical or behavioral characteristics, is a key piece in homeland security strategies, but no single biometric -- such as face, signature or fingerprint -- fits all applications, says the director of the University at Buffalo's Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS).

Following Sept. 11, 2001, political analysts observed that more American scholars and students should study Arabic. But the lack of digital tools to access Arabic documents on the Web puts those who pursue that field of study at a distinct disadvantage. Computer scientists at the University at Buffalo's Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS) are remedying that by developing optical character recognition (OCR) software for handwritten and machine-printed Arabic documents.