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Joseph V. Mure of Buffalo, a junior chemistry major at the University at Buffalo, has been selected as a 2001-02 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

It's official: Buffalo's CAT is back. After nearly a decade without a New York State Center for Advanced Technology program that supports industry/university collaborations to drive job creation and economic growth, Buffalo is once again home to a CAT, this time a joint venture between UB and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI).

The major players in medical care, research, education and biotechnical innovation concentrated in what has been termed the "High Street medical corridor" in Buffalo have formed an entity called the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) to coordinate projects that will serve and enhance the group as a whole.

The UB Community Pan-Am Partnership, Irish Classical Theatre and The Baird Foundation will present Vincent O'Neill in a reading of "The Importance of Being Oscar" at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 22 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Five graduates of the UB Law School will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards for their valuable contributions to the legal profession and community at the 39th annual UB Law Alumni Association meeting and dinner, to be held at 6 p.m. May 10 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The alumni association also will recognize a non-alumna for "outstanding service to the Law School and community."

The "Cadillac" of pain control during labor is the epidural, an anesthetic injected into the epidural space surrounding the spinal cord. It eliminates pain, allows the mother to remain awake and has no effect on the newborn. Whether a laboring woman receives an epidural or other pain control, however, depends on her insurance type, a University at Buffalo study has found.

New research by epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo has suggested that Vitamin E and a little-known vitamin called beta-cryptoxanthin found primarily in oranges are associated with healthy lung function.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- University at Buffalo Professor Leonard Epstein and his work with obese children will be featured in a segment of PBS' "Scientific American Frontiers," to be aired today (May 1, 2001). Locally, it can be seen on Channel 17, WNED-TV, at 8 p.m. Epstein, professor in psychology, pediatrics, and social and preventive medicine, will be featured in a segment called "Couch Potato Kids." Following the show, Epstein will be participating in "Science Hotline," a feature on the show's Web site (http://www.pbs.org/saf) that allows viewers to email scientists participating in tonight's show.

The Wall Street Journal has ranked the University at Buffalo School of Management as one of the "top business schools" in the world, according to a report released today within the newspaper's domestic and international editions.

New understanding of the mechanisms of sex differentiation could result from research in the neuropharmacology of sexual behavior being conducted at the University at Buffalo.