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D. Jackson Coleman, MD '60, is a retina specialist with expertise in vitreo-retinal surgery, a technique he pioneered. His strong interest in physics led him, together with Frederic L. Lizzi, to create the first commercially available B-scan ultrasound equipment for the eye.

Western New York companies have the opportunity to improve their operations and achieve measurable gains by hosting students enrolled in the University at Buffalo's Six Sigma Black Belt Student Certification program in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Robert Gosende, recently retired special assistant to the SUNY Chancellor for International Programs, the John W. Ryan Fellow in International Relations at the University of Albany, and ambassador to Somalia at the height of that nation's 1992-93 humanitarian crisis, will present a free public lecture about recent developments in North Africa and the Middle East on March 28.

Like most people who don't personally know someone who needs a transplant, University at Buffalo student Alex Teschemacher hadn't considered becoming a bone marrow donor. But in the fall of 2009, while walking through the UB Student Union, he and a friend came upon a National Marrow Donor Program recruitment drive sponsored by the UB Prehealth Advising office. On the spur of the moment, they decided to register.

Joseph J. Hindrawan, associate vice provost for international education and director of international enrollment management at the University at Buffalo, will join colleagues from 55 other U.S. colleges and universities, April 2 to 8, on the Obama administration's first education services trade mission to Indonesia and Vietnam.

University at Buffalo faculty who are inventing and patenting new products and discoveries, commercializing research and developing startup companies will be celebrated at the 2011 Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception on March 29 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow on UB's Amherst campus.

In a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of Behavioral Medicine, researchers from the University of Denver, the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, report that after a collective trauma--defined as a traumatic event that happens simultaneously to a large number of people (9/11, in this case)--religiosity and spirituality independently predict people's health outcomes.

David A. Westbrook, PhD, professor and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Scholar, University at Buffalo Law School, will present a lecture April 13 at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute as part of the second annual series, Ripples of Hope -- The Eric Scott Pitman Lectures in Ethics and Social Justice.

After age 21, problem gambling is considerably more common among U.S. adults than alcohol dependence, even though alcohol dependence has received much more attention, according to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.

Alan H. Lockwood, MD, professor of neurology and nuclear medicine in the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences calls the Japanese Health Ministry's advice not to give tap water to infants "prudent." Lockwood, a board member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, can discuss human health effects of radiation. Six weeks after the Chernobyl accident, he examined survivors at a Moscow hospital.