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A new study counters the prevailing belief that children and adolescents who are extra short have social adjustment problems and fewer friends than children of average height, challenging one rationale for intervening at an early age with human growth-hormone treatment.

Studio for Architecture, the award-winning Buffalo architectural firm of Mehrdad Hadighi, associate professor of architecture, and Shadi Nazarian, clinical associate professor of architecture, both in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, was named one of the "25 most intriguing, innovative and intrepid architecture firms, from all over the world" by Wallpaper* magazine in its July, 2004 Annual Design Directory issue.

Anyone who knows children, knows that you can't "make" them do something they don't want to do, and that holds true when it comes to reading, although reading itself is a requirement for academic, economic, social and future parental success. Parents can, however, help make reading a palatable, pleasurable activity, one that children ultimately will pursue on their own, to their own tremendous benefit, says a faculty member in the University at Buffalo School of Informatics.

George W. Bush has a very good chance of winning a second term in the White House, according to "trial-heat-and-economy" and "convention bump" forecasts produced by James E. Campbell, professor of political science at the University at Buffalo.

Wednesdays at 4 PLUS, the distinguished reading series founded by poet Robert Creeley, former David Gray Chair in Poetics at the University at Buffalo, opens its Fall 2004 program this week with two literary stars who will make presentations on Sept. 9: Indian novelist and activist Arundhati Roy and author Ulla Dydo, a "reader of Gertrude Stein without equal."

Boeing Corp., the only remaining U.S. commercial aircraft manufacturer, is outsourcing the technologies and innovations that once made it the aerospace sector's undisputed global leader, according to a study by two University at Buffalo industrial geographers.

The impact of government policies on cultural production and personal privacy and the art sector's response to censorship will be the subject of an interdisciplinary art and law workshop to be held Sept. 10 at the University at Buffalo.

John B. Simpson will be recognized officially as the University at Buffalo's 14th president in an investiture ceremony at 3 p.m. Oct. 15 in the MainStage theater in the Center for the Arts (CFA) on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Lisa C. Freemen, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology and director of mentored training at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University, will spend the 2004-05 academic year at the University at Buffalo as part of the American Council of Education (ACE) Fellows Program.

Thomas J. Shuell, Ph.D., of Niagara Falls, professor in the Department of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology, University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, has received a 2004-05 Fulbright Scholar Award from the J. William Fulbright Foundation.