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Is there an infant or toddler with disabilities on your holiday gift list? If so, you might be interested in some advice from Susan Mistrett, director of the Let's Play! project at the University at Buffalo, which uses assistive technologies and interactive strategies to help disabled children to play.

For the University at Buffalo Department of Geology, "hands-on" in a lab apparently isn't hands-on enough. That's why excavators are drilling four, 50-foot wells on the North (Amherst) Campus so that students can learn about hydrogeology -- the study of how water and other liquids, such as pollutants, move through the shallow subsurface -- up close and personal.

Some might say Walter Simpson has a "bah, humbug!" attitude toward the holiday season. But the University at Buffalo energy officer and environmental activist says the holidays just are not happy anymore because they have become a time "scarred by hypocrisy and commercialism" and bring the year's most unecological and earth-destructive practices.

With the help of a $2.74 million grant, researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Missouri-Columbia are taking steps to find answers to why some teens engage in risky behaviors, such as drinking, using drugs and having unsafe sex.

Motorola has selected the University at Buffalo School of Management to deliver an Executive MBA program to customers and employees from the company's operations in China.

Does drinking really kill brain cells? If not, what does happen, and how does it happen? Is the damage permanent? Does chronic alcohol abuse in late adulthood increase the deficits caused by aging? For 16 years, UB professor Roberta J. Pentney has pondered these basic questions concerning chronic alcohol abuse and brain function. Her painstaking work has yielded striking and unexpected answers.

Three UB students have received J. Scott Fleming Merit Awards for leadership and volunteer efforts that promote student involvement and enhance the student experience.

A research project using high-frequency sound waves to disinfect wastewater has earned a UB engineering student first prize in a national competition sponsored by the Water Environmental Federation (WEF).

Isaac Ehrlich, Ph.D., of Eggertsville, chair and Leading Professor in the Department of Economics at UB, has been appointed an honorary professor at City University of Hong Kong by a vote of that university's faculty senate and approval by the university president.

The University at Buffalo has established a new, multidisciplinary institute to conduct research designed to harness the power of light in a broad spectrum of applications and potential products, ranging from telecommunications to cancer therapy.