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  • UB Nursing School Involved In First Large-Scale, Quality-Of-Life Study Of Women With Lung Cancer
    10/13/99
    The University at Buffalo School of Nursing is one of five nursing schools conducting the first national, large-scale study of quality-of-life issues affecting women with lung cancer.
  • UB Exceeds Fall Enrollment Targets
    10/11/99
    The University at Buffalo has exceeded its enrollment targets for full-time students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has increased its number of graduate students by more than 15 percent since last fall, according to UB's official enrollment-status report.
  • UB Pediatric Researchers To Conduct First Trial Of Ability Of Vitamin A To Boost Immune System In Premature Infants
    10/11/99
    University at Buffalo pediatric researchers have received a $1.2 million grant from the Institute for Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, to conduct the first clinical trial of vitamin A's potential to bolster the immune systems of very premature babies, an action that could help prevent potentially deadly infections.
  • UB Exceeds Fall Enrollment Targets
    10/11/99
    The University at Buffalo has exceeded its enrollment targets for full-time students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has increased its number of graduate students by more than 15 percent since last fall, according to UB's official enrollment-status report.
  • Conference To Celebrate Century Of Women’s Contributions To University At Buffalo Law School
    10/1/99
    The University at Buffalo will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its first women graduates with a special centennial conference, "Sisters in Law: A Century of Achievement at UB," to be held Oct. 21-22. The conference will recognize the many remarkable women who have contributed to the betterment of the UB Law School community and the nation's legal profession over the past century.
  • Music Box Tops UB Periodontist’s Collectibles
    10/1/99
    Sebastian Ciancio, chair of the UB Department of Periodontology, is quite a collector, with an office that has hundreds of bottles, porcelain and metal tooth-powder containers, an old toothbrush with an ivory head, canisters of dental floss and empty bottles of mouthwash. But lately his collection has taken a different direction: music boxes.
  • UB Physicist Develops Concept Of An Inkjet Printer That Prints Documents Invisible To The Naked Eye
    9/27/99
    It sounds like something out of a James Bond movie: an electronic inkjet printer that prints with invisible ink. But earlier this month, University at Buffalo physicists published a paper in Applied Physics Letters that describes a device that could do just that.
  • Novel Photonic Material Developed At UB Reveals How Human Breast-Cancer Cell Takes Up Anticancer Agent
    9/27/99
    Scientists at the University at Buffalo and Tulane University have, for the first time, optically tracked in real-time the pathway of one of the most widely used cancer drugs linked to a peptide hormone carrier as it is being taken up by a human breast-cancer cell.
  • After 30 Years, Gentile Remains Passionate About Teaching
    9/23/99
    Although he's been in the business for 30 years, Ronald J. Gentile still can recall an experience in class during the 1970s that changed his philosophy about teaching.
  • UB Professor Says Making “Connection” Is Key In Preventing Youth Suicide
    9/23/99
    Thomas T. Frantz has spent 25 years dealing with people affected by suicide, death, dying and grief, and has witnessed first-hand the pain that leads up to and lingers after a tragedy. That pain can be deadly for teen-agers, he says, and urges parents, teachers and friends to do their part in preventing youth suicide by making a connection with the troubled youth.