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"Spread Eagle," the 18-foot-long, five-foot-high steel bridge designed and built by a team of UB engineering students, earned praise for aesthetics and presentation at the National Steel Bridge Competition held recently in Anchorage.

If athletes from elite to novice needed yet another reason to drink plenty of fluids during exercise, a new study by University at Buffalo exercise scientists provides it. Their research shows that dehydration may induce bronchospasm even before exercise and make exercise-induced asthma worse.

Amherst resident Paul T. Feigenbaum, a 1998 UB graduate, has been awarded a 1999 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Fifteen UB students received awards for excellence in their fields of study during the recent commencement ceremony for the UB School of Management.

The School of Pharmacy recognized 20 students with awards at its recent commencement ceremony.

In our collective exuberance over the astonishing explosion in the field of information technology during the past two decades, we may overlook something just as important -- the investigation of its meaning. This observation by the faculty and graduate students who comprise the University at Buffalo's Critical and Cultural Studies in Information Technologies group has led to the development of a new array of courses exploring the forces shaping technology and its uses that is among the first of its kind in the nation.

Allegedly tried as a witch by his own people, admired and feared by European monarchs, accused of betraying the nation he represented, the formidable Iroquois diplomat Red Jacket remains one of the most compelling figures of his era. "Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator," a new book by University at Buffalo Archivist Christopher Densmore, is the first modern biography of the legendary Seneca Indian.

Pamela H. Keen and Juli A. Riemenschneider have been named to new positions with The Center for Industrial Effectiveness, University at Buffalo Business Alliance.

UB sophomore Jason Majewski has been elected to a two-year term representing District 2 on the national board of the Student Alumni Association/Student Foundation Network of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

The UB Student Visual Art Organization and the Experimental Print Imaging Center will hold public workshops this summer on figure drawing and printmaking techniques.