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Look around any hospital, clinic or doctor's office and most of the nurses you see will not be people of color. This situation does not bode well for the future of nursing or for health care, as the general population becomes more diverse and the need for multicultural understanding more crucial. Providing that understanding is the goal of a new curriculum in the master's-degree program for family nurse practitioners in the University at Buffalo.

Researchers from the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo are conducting a study to learn what is preventing teen-age girls in Buffalo -- which has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in New York State and one of the highest in the nation -- from taking advantage of area reproductive health services.

Problem drinkers are 23 times more likely to have a gambling problem than individuals who do not have an alcohol problem, according to a study conducted at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.

The University at Buffalo has received two grants totaling nearly $629,000 from New York State to provide culturally appropriate training for its medical and dental students and residents through school- and community-based clinics.

Sociologist Lois Weis of Buffalo, professor of comparative education in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, has received the 2001 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, one of the top awards in the human-rights field.

Rooted in a Cold War spy-training program, an innovative course at the University at Buffalo School of Management is helping MBA students develop intangible skills that are the difference between being a good executive or a great executive.

With the announcement Thursday by Gov. George E. Pataki of $50 million in state funding and more than $150 million in private-sector funding, the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics -- a collaborative effort involving New York State, industry partners and academic institutions -- has taken a major step toward becoming a reality.

Robert R. Orrange gives career advice for a living. But the associate director of the Office of Career Planning and Placement at the University at Buffalo received a little career advice of his own when an undergraduate art student who stopped in for a chat about her aspirations got him thinking about one of his own -- writing a children's book. And so the seed was planted more than a year ago for Orrange's first -- and recently published -- book, "The Daisy Bug Daycare."

Former President William J. Clinton will speak at the University at Buffalo during the Spring 2002 semester as a "student choice" lecturer.

Charles M. Severin, assistant dean for students and associate professor of pathology and anatomical sciences in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, was one of 56 medical school faculty physicians nominated by medical students nationwide for the 2001 Humanism in Medicine Award sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges.