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The Buffalo Chapter of the National Stuttering Project and the Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic at the University at Buffalo will sponsor a workshop May 15 for teens who stutter, their parents, adults who stutter and for speech-language pathologists.

The third World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, an international conference focusing on research into all aspects of the optimal design of structures and systems, will be held May 17-21 at the University at Buffalo. It will be the first time the conference will be held in the U.S.

More than 1,000 high-school students from Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties will visit the UB North Campus on May 18 during the 16th annual Science Exploration Day.

The tango -- that romantic, Latin American dance form -- will be the focus of a "UB at Sunrise" program by the Castellani/Andriaccio Duo to be held from 7:30-9 a.m. May 27 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

Two University at Buffalo faculty members -- Jack Meacham and Jerry N. Newman -- have joined the ranks of distinguished teaching professors appointed by the State University of New York Board of Trustees.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday (May 5, 1999) at the waterfall in Glen Park, Williamsville, for Jacquelyn Mitchell, 59, dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo. Mitchell died at home Friday (April 30, 1999) after a short illness.

Born deaf and raised in a hearing family, Lee Dray spent the first 16 years of her life unexposed to the culture and language that now define her identity and career. As the instructor for the University at Buffalo's new courses in American Sign Language, she hopes to help narrow the gap between cultures of the deaf and the hearing, as well as expose hearing people to the deaf culture of America.

The summer program of walking tours conducted by The Friends of the School of Architecture and Planning began on May 1 and will continue until Oct. 30.

Researchers from the University at Buffalo, seeking to determine when the bone loss that results in osteoporosis in 19 percent of diabetic women begins, have found that mean bone density starts to decline sometime after the teen years.

Persons treated for Hodgkin's disease in childhood are at high risk for developing a second malignancy and should be monitored closely by their physicians throughout their lifetime, researchers at the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have shown.