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WBFO-FM 88.7, a major public service of the University at Buffalo, received a first place award at the 2008 Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) annual awards banquet on Saturday, July 19, 2008, at the Renaissance M Street Hotel in Washington, DC.

An article in Business First interviews local businesspeople about how they build ties to area colleges, including UB.

Children born with hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain" must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure. While shunts do their job well, the rate of shunt infection in children is very high for a variety of reasons. Now a new trial conducted by faculty at the University at Buffalo has shown that using antimicrobial sutures to secure the shunt and close the wound significantly reduces the number of shunt infections arising during the first six months after surgery.

University at Buffalo faculty members challenged teams of Western New York's best and brightest high school students to prove their scientific and mathematical mettle in a brain-teasing race around the UB North (Amherst) Campus today. Using some of UB Engineering's high-tech lab resources, student teams competed to destroy a miniature building in a simulated earthquake, detect hidden weapons in X-ray images of luggage, use trigonometry to operate a mechanical robot and calculate turbulence in a wind tunnel.

Over the last decade, energy drinks -- such as Red Bull, Monster and Rockstar -- have become nearly ubiquitous on college campuses. Although few researchers have examined energy drink consumption, a researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) has been investigating links between energy drinks and public health concerns like substance abuse and risky behaviors.

Berlin is a much different city today than it was when presidents Kennedy and Reagan delivered iconic remarks there, but it remains an appropriate setting from which Barack Obama can deliver an important message about global relations, according to a University at Buffalo history professor who wrote a book about John F. Kennedy's famous speech in Berlin.

Redemption stories. That's what adminstrators at the Educational Opportunity Center call them. Take the resources of the University at Buffalo's EOC, then mix in the sheer determination and grit of men and women who refuse to be defeated. The result: a steady stream of graduates, many of whom illustrate the triumph of the human spirit and the continuing impact UB has on a frequently overlooked segment of the community.

Attendees at the 2008 Olympics a half-a-world away, Aug. 8-24, will experience a cultural jolt and may have some concerns about their health. Richard Lee, M.D., University at Buffalo professor of medicine, is a specialist in geographic medicine and travels frequently to China. He returned from there recently and offers suggestions for international travelers headed for Beijing.

WBFO 88.7 FM, a major public service of the University at Buffalo, is bringing StoryCorps to the Western New York area. StoryCorps, a national initiative to document everyday history and the unique stories of Americans, arrived July 17 in Buffalo to collect the stories of Buffalo's residents as part of its cross-country tour.

University at Buffalo Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua will deliver a keynote speech at this week's Pan-African conference in Nairobi, Kenya, devoted to administering justice to those responsible for sexual and gender-biased violence in countries besieged by conflict and civil unrest.