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A new software application, developed with assistance from the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology Transfer at the University at Buffalo, promises to ease the frustration of using a mouse -- and provide greater computer access-- for people who suffer from cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or other disabilities that make it very difficult to point and click.

University at Buffalo researchers, working with an Amherst, N.Y., startup company called Esensors have developed a unique, real-time patient dose-tracking system, which lets physicians know when the accumulated radiation dose is approaching a dangerous threshold.

Community members and business leaders in Buffalo's Broadway-Fillmore area have been working for months with senior students in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning on what both consider "real" plans to invigorate the neighborhood, grounded in the past success of other "fresh market" projects, national shopping trends, and interest by the federal government.

Elliot Caplan's work as a producer, video maker, filmmaker, theater designer and cinematographer is internationally recognized and held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), France's National Museum of Modern Art, Cinematheque Francaise and museums in Taiwan, Germany, Israel and Brazil. Earlier this fall, Caplan added another distinction to his resume -- professor in the Department of Media Study in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Science.

A team consisting of two sophomores, one junior and two MBA students from the University at Buffalo School of Management took a $1,000 prize and won the first round of the national xTREME Accounting Campus Competition (xACT) sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on Nov. 15.

Parkinson's disease may be caused by an environmental-genetic double whammy on the neurons that produce dopamine, the neurotransmitter that controls body movement, a new study by University at Buffalo researchers has shown.

Helping nursing home patients brush their teeth or dentures does more than freshen breath, increase comfort and prevent gum disease. Good oral health in institutionalized elders may help protect them from contracting potentially deadly pneumonia if they need to be hospitalized, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Natalie MacMaster at 8 p.m. on April 27, 2005 in the Mainstage theater located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Tickets for the performance will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Dec. 3.

Lesa L. Fichte of Kenmore has been named director of continuing education in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo.

Venu Govindaraju, Ph.D., professor of computer science and engineering at the University at Buffalo, and director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS) at UB, is one of 15 Indian scientists and engineers in the U.S. chosen by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Indian Business Club to receive a Global Indus Technovators Award.