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  • Center Focusing on Indoor Air Quality Earns National Science Foundation Renewal
    8/6/04
    The Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Biosurfaces at the University at Buffalo has been renewed as a "national center" by the National Science Foundation for a five-year term.
  • Researchers to Study Alcohol-Related Victimization of Women During Their Four-Year College Experience
    7/22/04
    In conjunction with the arrival of a new crop of freshmen on college campuses across the U.S., researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions will begin a study of the alcohol-related victimization experienced by female college students.
  • Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation Awards $100,000 for Cancer Vaccine Research at University at Buffalo
    7/22/04
    A promising new technique for developing a cancer vaccine has earned researchers in the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences the university's first grant from the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation.
  • Fiber-Optic Network Is Finished, Boosting Data Transmission 1,000-Fold between UB and Research Partners
    7/13/04
    Approximately 12 miles of new fiber-optic cable has been constructed by the University at Buffalo and over the next few weeks will be "lit," enhancing high-speed data links between UB's campuses and with affiliated research institutions, an essential step toward creation of a life-sciences economy for the region.
  • Mirror-Image of Tarantula Venom Peptide Shows Promise as a Drug, UB Biophysicists Find
    7/8/04
    A tarantula venom peptide, GsMTx4, known to affect many organs, can be manipulated to withstand destruction in the stomach, making it a promising candidate for drugs that could treat cardiac arrhythmias, muscular dystrophy and many other conditions, University at Buffalo biophysicists have shown.
  • Study Is First to Link Drug-Abusing Fathers to Serious Psychopathology in Their Children
    7/7/04
    A study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and Old Dominion University has found that being raised by a father who abuses drugs is even more harmful to the mental health of school-aged children than being raised by a father who is an alcoholic.
  • An Expanding Waistline May Bring with It Fatty Liver Disease, UB Researchers Find, in Study of Liver Enzymes and Central Adiposity
    7/1/04
    A new study from the University at Buffalo has found that excessive fat around one's middle -- the familiar "potbelly" -- is a strong predictor of potential liver damage.
  • UB to Reactivate Master's, Doctoral Programs in Biostatistics
    6/29/04
    The Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo has received approval from the state Education Department to re-activate the graduate program in statistics, which had been suspended in 1998.
  • UB School of Public Health and Health Professions Honors Graduates
    6/29/04
    Twenty-three new graduates of the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo were honored with scholarships and awards during the school's recent commencement ceremony.
  • Large Abdomen Can Reduce Men's Lung Function By 15 Percent
    6/28/04
    Accumulating fat around one's middle can significantly impair lung function, new findings from the University at Buffalo show, in addition to increasing the risk of heart disease.