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In recognition of its strengths in bioinformatics and related areas, the University at Buffalo has been awarded a major grant to develop professional master's degrees in disciplines closely related to bioinformatics by the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The science of efficiently organizing and interpreting massive amounts of information -- a relatively new field called information fusion that originated from military applications -- is for the first time being applied to manmade and natural disasters by researchers at the University at Buffalo.

Scientists at the University at Buffalo have shown that the drug methylphenidate, the generic form of Ritalin, which physicians have considered to have only short-term effects, appears to initiate changes in brain function that remain after the therapeutic effects have dissipated.

Jack Quinan, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, recently received prestigious Owen B. Augspurger Award for 2001 from the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.

"Asia at Noon," the University at Buffalo brown-bag series of lectures and discussions that looks at research on Asia, will present two programs this month that consider China today from historical and economic perspectives.

Venu Govindaraju, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University at Buffalo and associate director of CEDAR, the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition at UB, has received the "Outstanding Young Investigator Award" from the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, the largest international conference in the pattern-recognition field.

The Office of International Education at the University at Buffalo will host a week-long slate of activities, beginning Monday, dedicated to highlighting the importance of international education and the role of cultural exchange as part of the academic experience.

Committed to helping people change their worlds, the Rev. Robert E. Grimm and his wife, Roberta, have given $300,000 to the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning as seed money for a project to transform Buffalo's "Fruit Belt" neighborhood.

The death penalty, one of the most controversial issues in America, will be the topic of the UB Alumni Association's Senior Alumni Luncheon program at noon on Nov. 16 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

J. Warren Perry, dean emeritus of the University at Buffalo School of Health Related Professions, has received the 2001 Editor's Award from the Journal of Allied Health.