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A new study from the University at Buffalo and Meharry Medical College indicates that the difference in colon-cancer mortality rates between blacks and whites may be due partly to the fact that young blacks appear to develop a more virulent form of colon cancer, and die sooner, than blacks who get the disease later in life.

A specialist in the University at Buffalo Department of Rehabilitation Medicine watches his young patient’s efforts to relearn to walk after a debilitating illness, and discusses her progress with her parents and physical therapist.

Environmentalists, businesses and governments must work together more effectively if "brownfields" -- abandoned, urban industrial sites -- are to be cleaned up and reclaimed, according to a report presented to Erie County officials today (Thursday, May 12) by University at Buffalo law students.

Victor Doyno, professor of English at the University at Buffalo and one of the country's foremost Mark Twain scholars, will be installed this month as president of the Mark Twain Circle during the annual meeting of the American Literature Association in San Diego. He will hold the position until May, 1996.

Kah-Kyung Cho, professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, and Alan J. Drinnan, professor and chair of the Department of Oral Medicine in the UB School of Dental Medicine, have been named Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in the State University of New York system, by the SUNY Board of Trustees.

An earthquake that shook Cuylerville, N.Y., a small town about an hour southeast of Buffalo, has geologists wondering what triggered it.

Calvin G. Rand, a long-time supporter of the University at Buffalo, has established a fund in memory of his brother, George F. Rand III, to benefit the University at Buffalo School of Management.

The beauty and complexity of self-assembling, cubic-phase materials have aroused interest mainly at the level of basic science, but recent experimental and theoretical advances by University at Buffalo biomaterials scientists could thrust them onto a technological fast track.

The University at Buffalo School of Management is offering a full-time, executive MBA program similar to programs offered at the top business schools in the country.

A five-minute test designed for use in the dentist's office to determine the presence of antigens from three major bacteria found in localized juvenile periodontitis (LJP) gets high marks for accuracy, according to a study by researchers at the University at Buffalo.