VOLUME 33, NUMBER 21 THURSDAY, March 14, 2002
Reporter

Photo: Jessica Kourkounis

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Sandy DeMarco from the University Bookstore manages to hold the attention of a class from the UB Child Care Center Inc. during a story hour held last week in the bookstore. With DeMarco are preschoolers (foreground, left to right) Emmaline McElligott, Tylen Davis, Hira Jung and Wesley Lewis.



FSEC tackles issue of student drinking
Black convenes informal panel to update FSEC following recent death of teen

The university is taking a tough, but proactive stance on the problem of alcohol abuse by students, Dennis Black, vice-president of Student Affairs, reported to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee during a discussion on the topic at the body's March 6 meeting.

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New method produces "super" results

A novel method of computing and modeling turbulent reacting flows developed by UB researchers produces results equivalent to those generated by expensive supercomputers and is anywhere from 30 to 100 times less expensive to use.

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Top Stories...

· Conducting machine: Rosenbaum devotes his life to spreading magic of choral music
· GSE to offer degree in Singapore
· Severin never forgets life of student: Assistant dean at med school nominated by students for Humanism in Medicine Award
· Economics students take the challenge: UB team makes impressive showing "playing Greenspan" for the day in NY Fed contest
· Understanding morphological evolution: Beauty of butterfly wing patterns may hold key
in studying how organisms evolved

 

Research Digest...
Reports of research in this section are from studies presented by UB dental researchers last weekend at the annual meeting of the International Association of Dental Research, held in San Diego.

· Novel peptide found in saliva may kill infections: Protein shown in lab to have potent antimicrobial activity against several types of bacteria and fungi
· Study of mice shows peptide may be effective
· Oral health key to diabetes
· Antibiotics cut inflammation




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