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Cold climates generally are associated with large quantities of snow. But a paper published this week in Science indicates that during the Holocene period, the geological era covering the past 11,000 years, snowfall was lower in colder years than when temperatures were more moderate.

Bernard Hubbard, a graduate student in the Department of Geology at the University at Buffalo and one of the relatively few African Americans in the U.S. who is studying geology, has strong advice for inner-city kids.

Bernard Hubbard, a graduate student in the Department of Geology at the University at Buffalo and one of the relatively few African Americans in the U.S. who is studying geology, has strong advice for inner-city kids.

A new generation of designers is redefining graphic literacy, giving more reverence to the written word and placing less emphasis on the image itself, the head of the Graphic Design Program at the University at Buffalo says.

New findings by a research team from the University at Buffalo and the Shriver Center for Mental Retardation in Boston indicate that a carbohydrate found in breast milk may provide protection against a form of diarrhea that poses a serious health threat to children in developing countries.

"Language poetry," the bedeviling school of contemporary poetry that has intrigued the literary world for two decades, has been wrestled onto a new CD titled "Live at the Ear."

The University at Buffalo has teamed up with NYNEX to create a demonstration area that displays assistive devices to help persons with disabilities communicate via the telephone.

Most short children are well-adjusted and have no serious social or emotional problems, despite assumptions by some physicians and parents, a new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and Children's Hospital of Buffalo has shown.

Negativity isn't always bad. In fact, when it comes to encouraging consumer recycling, advocacy messages that are negative are more effective than messages that are positively framed, a researcher at the University at Buffalo has found.

The more a listener likes a radio show and is actively involved in the program, the more receptive he or she will be to the advertisements aired during the show, a study by a University at Buffalo researcher has found.