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  • UB-Squeaky Wheel Project Gives Urban Girls a Leg Up in the Use of New Technologies
    9/20/99
    The University at Buffalo has teamed up with Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources to offer a unique, extracurricular arts-and-technology outreach program for disadvantaged, early-adolescent girls in grades 5-7 that is designed to help them overcome the technological gender gap. UB students majoring in computer art and media study will serve as staff assistants in the program.
  • Johns Hopkins Nursing Dean to Give Bullough Lecture
    9/20/99
    Sue K. Donaldson, Ph.D., dean and professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, will discuss "A Quarter Century of Breakthroughs in Nursing Research" at the Third Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture, to be held on Sept. 30.
  • UB Scientists Discover Role of Melatonin in Bone Formation
    9/20/99
    University at Buffalo researchers have shown for the first time that melatonin, a hormone produced naturally by the pineal gland and used widely as a supplement to diminish jet lag and improve sleep patterns, may play an important role in promoting bone growth.
  • “Culture Jammers” Bring Socio/Economic Protest To UB
    9/17/99
    It's been more than 30 years since their predecessors threw verbal grenades at the military-industrial complex, and decades since environmentalists began wrapping themselves around endangered trees and laying down in front of bulldozers.
  • Severe Damage Predicted If Hurricane Floyd Hits North Carolina’s Southeast Coast
    9/15/99
    A sociologist researching regional development along North Carolina's southeast coast said today that if Hurricane Floyd makes landfall in that region, damage will be very serious -- exacerbated by the area's dramatic population increase over 20 years and the overdevelopment of coastal lands.
  • Consumers Ordering New Prescriptions Online Are Asking For Trouble, UB Pharmacy Professor Says
    9/14/99
    When used judiciously, pharmacy Web sites can play an important educational role for consumers, but they never should be used for ordering new prescriptions, according to a professor of pharmacy at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Engineer’s Study Of Turbulence Takes Him To High Seas
    9/14/99
    As director of the Turbulence Research Lab at the University at Buffalo, Clarence resident William K. George, Jr., Ph.D., deals with mathematics and theory daily. But he also enjoys a change in latitude for a different kind of turbulent adventure: sailing.
  • Eating Contaminated Great Lakes Sport Fish Does Not Inhibit Lactation, UB Study Finds
    9/7/99
    A study by University at Buffalo reproductive epidemiologists has found no association between eating DDE-contaminated sport fish from Lake Ontario and the length of lactation in nursing mothers.
  • UB Scientists Find Breast-Cancer Risk May Be Influenced By Gene That Regulates Serum Triglycerides
    9/6/99
    University at Buffalo researchers have shown for the first time that a variant of the apolipoprotein E (apoE) gene, known as apoE 4, may increase the risk of breast cancer by inhibiting the elimination of serum triglycerides from the bloodstream.
  • UB Offers Advanced Honors Program For Juniors And Seniors
    8/27/99
    An Advanced Honors Program designed to draw new students into the honors category, as well as better serve current honors students in their junior and senior years, will begin this fall at the University at Buffalo, administrators with the University Honors Program have announced.