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Managers who want greater insight into common financial measures used by successful companies may register for a business performance lunch series offered by the University at Buffalo's Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE).

It takes just seconds for tall buildings to collapse during powerful earthquakes. Knowing precisely what's happening in those seconds can help engineers design buildings that are less prone to sustaining that kind of damage. But the nature of collapse is not well understood. That's why researchers at the University at Buffalo and Japan's Kyoto University teamed up recently to try an innovative "hybrid" approach to testing that may provide a safer, far less expensive way to learn about how and why full-scale buildings collapse.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Corea, Clarke & White at 8 p.m. on Sept. 25 in the Mainstage Theatre, located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored in part by Monaco's Violin Shop & Music Center.

In a study published in the most recent issue of the journal Sociological Inquiry, sociologists from four major research institutions focus on one of the most curious aspects of the 2004 presidential election: the strength and resilience of the belief among many Americans that Saddam Hussein was linked to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Back To Buffalo: UB Dance Alumni All-Star Concert at 8 p.m. on Sept. 26 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by the UB Alumni Association.

Professionals who are currently employed by the life sciences industry in Western New York, or who would like to be, are invited to register for "Becoming a Leader in the Life Sciences," a certification program offered by the University at Buffalo's Division of Continuing and Professional Studies -- Millard Fillmore College.

Jean Wactawski-Wende, Ph.D., professor and associate chair of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions, and adjunct professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been appointed UB's vice provost for strategic initiatives.

The University at Buffalo School of Management was ranked as one of the country's best Undergraduate Business Programs in the 2010 edition of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S News and World Report . The magazine ranked UB in the top tier of best national universities, ranking the university 60th among public universities and 121st overall among 265 universities reviewed.

Stephen Marc, a noted African-American photographer and digital montage artist, has spent nearly a decade on the road in the U.S. and Canada documenting the places and people associated with America's Underground Railroad. The network of secret routes and safe houses used by escaping enslaved African Americans is the subject of "Passage on the Underground Railroad," an exhibition of complex digital montages that will be presented in the University at Buffalo Art Gallery.

Business professionals striving to save money and reduce waste in their companies may register for the Certified Lean Professional training offered this fall by the University at Buffalo's Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE).