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The University at Buffalo Art Gallery will present "Responsive Architecture," an exhibition featuring architectural prototypes that explore how humans interact with their surroundings. The exhibition will open on April 5 with a public reception at 5 p.m.

The University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery will present "China's Sacred Sites: Architecture of Heaven and Earth," an exhibition organized by the UB School of Architecture and Planning and the Asian Studies Program. This exhibition will present photographs taken by John Valentino while traveling with architect Beverly Foit-Albert and Chinese professor Nan Shunxun to research historical sites in the People's Republic of China.

Sexual victimization can mean several things -- verbal coercion to have sex with an intimate partner, rape by a stranger, a woman fondled in a bar or forced intercourse when a woman is too intoxicated to consent or object. Researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions report that 18 percent of young women recruited into a study experienced sexual victimization in a two-year period.

Flesh-eating insects, Bigfoot, missions to Mars and what working in forensics is really like: these are just a few of the topics that 750 high school students from across the region will learn about and participate in during the University at Buffalo's annual Science Exploration Day on March 14 on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.

The University at Buffalo Art Gallery will present "Haunted Screens," a group exhibition featuring local, national and international artists who are working to deconstruct cinematic technologies.

UB's Humanities Institute will hold its annual open house from 4-6 p.m. March 20 in the Special Collections Research Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus.

Buffalo has fewer police officers per capita than many other cities in New York and nearby states, a condition reinforced by a 13 percent drop in officers per capita between 2000 and 2005, according to the most recently released Regional Institute Policy Brief, "Violent Crime in the City of Good Neighbors."

As UB thrives, Western New York thrives. That's the message President John B. Simpson has been delivering to myriad community groups, campus groups and members of the Western New York legislative delegation. And it's the message he plans to convey to Gov. Eliot Spitzer during a meeting on Friday, Simpson told members of the UB Council on Monday.

University at Buffalo athletes joined former athletes, coaches and alumni Tuesday morning to dedicate the new Robert and Carol Morris Sports Performance Center and to thank the donors for whom it is named for their generosity.

The UB Anderson Gallery and UB Department of Visual Studies are proud to present "Getting Your Work Shown," a workshop by Jackie Battenfield. The event will take place in the UB Anderson Gallery from 7-9 p.m. March 22, and is free and open to the public.