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President William R. Greiner announced today that the University at Buffalo will begin a year-long, campus-wide effort to study its athletics program as part of the NCAA Division I athletics certification program. Specific areas the study will cover are academic and fiscal integrity, governance, rules compliance, as well as a commitment to equity, student-athlete welfare and sportsmanship.

Forbes magazine has included the University at Buffalo School of Management in its annual ranking of 50 business schools that provide MBA students with the best return on their investment.

Fred Dansereau, professor of organizational and human resources in the University at Buffalo School of Management, has been named a fellow of the American Psychological Society (APS).

University at Buffalo biophysicists studying the motility of cells have shown that simple cells react in less than a millisecond to changes in membrane voltage, a property scientists have thought was confined to highly specialized cells such as the cochlear outer hair cells responsible for hearing.

The University at Buffalo's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, the Mitchell Lecture Fund and the Buffalo Environmental Law Journal will present a symposium, "Environmental Law and Stewardship for a Sustainable Society," Oct. 13 in the UB Law School, located in Baldy Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Women with a history of problem drinking exhibited significant increases in abstinence and light-drinking days, and decreases in heavy drinking, after participating in a 10-week program at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.

The image of an airplane flying into the second tower of the World Trade Center and exploding in flames, played over and over on television following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, will remain in America's collective consciousness for a long time. For all, that image forever will represent a national tragedy. But for some, there will be a more profound personal effect, according to a University at Buffalo expert in psychological trauma.

The World Trade Center twin towers should be rebuilt as a "focal sign for American resolve, for the ability of a democratic society to suffer injury and heal," according to an urban sociologist at the University at Buffalo.

The proposed federal takeover of airport security ultimately could permit longer and more careful screening of passengers and their baggage, according to a University at Buffalo professor who serves on a Federal Aviation Administration panel that studies research and development needs in aviation security.

The Philippine National Dance Company Bayanihan will present the third performance in the UB Center for the Arts 2001-02 KeyBank Dance Series Oct. 26 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts.