Federal work-study students at the University at Buffalo will go into Western New York elementary schools this fall to tutor students in reading as part of the "America Reads" program.
Murray Levine, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology, has received the Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action from the American Psychology Association.
The way in which the lining of their blood vessels responds to certain signals telling it to dilate may account for why some blacks have high blood pressure, according to a University at Buffalo study.
David J. Saleh has been elected to a one-year term as vice president for finance of the UB Alumni Association. The other officers, including president Jonathan A. Dandes, are continuing in the second year of their terms.
The "grasshopper" nature of chemical transport in the environment will be the focus of tests by a University at Buffalo researcher to determine how plants contribute to the global distribution of toxic organic pollutants.
Sister Helen Prejean, whose book, "Dead Man Walking," thrust her into the national spotlight and renewed the public debate surrounding capital punishment, will speak at UB. on Thursday, Sept. 11.
Works of abstract expressionism by James G. Pappas, associate professor of African-American studies, are featured in a solo exhibition in the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery.
UB's Center for Structural Biology has received a donation of computer equipment from Sun Microsystems, Inc. to facilitate research advancing virology, immunology and a wide range of other biomedical fields.
