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The restored version of Jean Renoir's 1937 classic film "The Grand Illusion," starring Jean Gabin and Eric von Stroheim, will open the Fall 2000 Buffalo Film Seminars, the popular 14-week series of screenings and discussions of great films sponsored by the UB and the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre.

Excess insulin in the bloodstream does not appear to contribute to atherosclerosis or arterial clogging, despite the known association of Type 2 diabetes with cardiovascular disease, a study by University at Buffalo endocrinologists has shown.

The University at Buffalo broke ground this week for Gateway Village, the fourth residential project for university students to be built in recent years as part of a long-term plan to provide housing for students and improve their quality of life. Gateway Village will be located on both sides of Flint Road at Augspurger Road near the old UB stadium on the North (Amherst) Campus. It will house a mix of 540 undergraduate, graduate and professional students in one-, two- and four-bedroom units. Being built at an estimated cost of $22 million, it is scheduled to open in August 2001.

The College of Arts and Sciences will present quite a feast over the next eight months. It is a series of free public lectures by CAS faculty members that will explore a variety of subjects from an affection for the rotting smell of "high" meat (Sept. 18) to advances in the treatment of auto-immune diseases (Jan. 22).

Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D., Ph.D., assistant dean for academic and curricular affairs in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and a clinical associate professor of medicine, was elected vice speaker of the American Medical Association's (AMA) policy-making House of Delegates during the association's annual meeting.

"Fractional Charges and Other Tales from Flatland" will be the topic of The Moti Lal Rustgi Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Nobel laureate Horst Störmer at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 8 in Room 225 of the Natural Sciences Complex on the North Campus.

Thanks in part to the inspiration of actor and martial-arts superstar Bruce Lee, Nicholas Logue, a May graduate of the University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance, is one of only two graduating seniors or master's degree candidates in the U.S. to receive a 2000-2001 Fulbright fellowship to study and teach in China.

WBFO 88.7 FM, a National Public Radio affiliate and a major public service of the University at Buffalo, has received a $75,000 grant from the Gebbie Foundation, Inc., to support the expansion and improvement of the signal of WUBJ 88.1 FM, its repeater station serving the people of Jamestown and Chautauqua County. The Gebbie Foundation grant is the largest of four -- totaling $130,000 -- received in support of the $133,000 project. The station previously received a $25,000 grant from the Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation, a $20,000 grant from the Hultquist Foundation and a $10,000 grant from the Johnson Foundation.

The University at Buffalo is launching a major, online, environmental-education project with the Jane Goodall Institute and its founder, primatologist Jane Goodall. The project, "Taking Gombe to the World Through Technology," was developed in connection with the 40th anniversary of Goodall's internationally regarded primate research project in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park.

Dental schools must increase their efforts to teach students how to interpret and evaluate results of scientific research in the area of diseases and disorders affecting the temporomandibular (jaw) joint, according to a University at Buffalo dental educator.