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There will be plenty going on besides great football at the University at Buffalo's home opener against Rutgers University to be held Aug. 30 in UB Stadium on the North (Amherst) Campus.

After spending the past six years probing the physics of how a football travels during flight using computer simulations and the videotape of a single forward pass from a 1976 professional football game, a University at Buffalo researcher hopes this week to put into place the final piece of the puzzle for a never-before-quantified phenomenon in football: why a forward pass curves slightly to the left or right, based on the handedness of the passer.

"The General," one of the all-time great film comedies, and "Il Conformista/The Conformist," considered by many to be Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's best film, head the lineup for the Fall 2001 edition of "Buffalo Film Seminars: Conversations about Great Films with Bruce Jackson & Diane Christian," the 14-week series of screenings and discussions sponsored by the University at Buffalo and the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center.

The fall lineup for the University at Buffalo's biannual poetry and prose series, "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS," promises an eclectic mix of both up-and-coming writers and those entrenched in the literary scene for decades -- a group whose collective work cuts across lines of race, ethnicity, gender, language and politics. The series, presented by the UB Poetics Program, will run from Sept. 12 through Nov. 30.

The alarming shortage of engineers throughout the U.S. has spurred numerous proposals on teacher training, curriculum and special programs, all geared toward boosting the sagging interest of American schoolchildren in science and mathematics. But one of the most important factors in shaping children's interest in science and math -- the attitudes of their parents -- is rarely mentioned, according to an engineer at the University at Buffalo.

The University at Buffalo Law School has added a new concentration in labor and employment law to its curriculum for the fall semester in response to increased demand in the job market for lawyers who are knowledgeable in this burgeoning field.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $1.3 million three-year grant to a consortium composed of the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education, the UB Center for Applied Technologies in Education, the Buffalo Public Schools and WNED-TV, Channel 17.

The 2001 University at Buffalo football season will kick off on Friday, August 24 with Rockin' Rally 2001, Buffalo's largest pep rally featuring classic rock artists Loverboy, the 2001 UB Bulls football team, the UB marching band and the UB cheerleaders.

The Center for Management Development in the UB School of Management has added several new programs to its roster of professional development seminars for the fall.

A consumer's guide to the issues related to long-term care will be presented by Anthony H. Szczygiel, UB law professor, at the UB Alumni Association's Senior Alumni luncheon program at noon, Sept. 13 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.