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Despina Stratigakos, PhD, assistant professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and assistant professor of visual studies in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, has received the prestigious 2009 Book Prize from the DAAD (Deutscher Akadamischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service), a publicly funded independent organization of higher education institutions in Germany.

John P. Richard, PhD, University at Buffalo professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been chosen to receive the 2009 Jacob F. Schoellkopf Award.

From rain barrels and locally roasted coffee to energy-efficient windows and cars you share instead of own, a broad range of environmentally friendly products for consumers will be on display at the University at Buffalo's "A Greener Shade of Blue and You Day," to be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today (Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009) in the atrium of the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Whether you're a total non-science person or the next Einstein, the Science and Art Cabaret was made for you. Sponsored by the University at Buffalo and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, the Science and Art Cabaret will be held from 7-9 p.m. today (Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009) in the Ninth Ward at Babeville's Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave.

Whether you're a total non-science person or the next Einstein, the Science and Art Cabaret was made for you. Sponsored by the University at Buffalo and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, the Science and Art Cabaret will be held from 7-9 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009) in the Ninth Ward at Babeville's Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave.

The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to evidence in a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published today . The research reveals that sediments retrieved by University at Buffalo geologists from a remote Arctic lake are unlike those seen during previous warming episodes.

A study about why African American seniors do or do not get influenza vaccinations finds that many of them do not have accurate and complete information about the flu itself, the safety and efficacy of the inoculations, and the ease and necessity of getting the shots.

Ten percent of young adolescent boys -- or one in 10 -- exhibit a symptom of conduct disorder as well as a symptom of risky or problem gambling, according to new research findings from the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).

The appointment of Michael Glick, D.M.D., as dean of the School of Dental Medicine at the University at Buffalo was announced today by David L. Dunn, M.D., Ph.D., UB vice president for health sciences. Glick is professor of oral medicine and associate dean for oral and medical sciences at the School of Osteopathic Medicine at A. T. Still University (ATSU) in Arizona and editor of the premier peer-reviewed journal

Neurologists at the University at Buffalo are beginning a research study that could overturn the prevailing wisdom on the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers will test the possibility that the symptoms of MS result from narrowing of the primary veins outside the skull, a condition called "chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency," or CCSVI.