CELBRATING CFA. Mother Nature delivered a beautiful balmy day for Wednesday's open house at the Center for the Arts held in conjunction with the center's 10th anniversary celebration. Thomas Burrows, left, CFA director, and Uday Sukhatme, second from left, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, were on hand to serve hot dogs to guests including Kelly Cruttenden, right, and Sharon Sanford, second from right, staff members in the Division of Athletics. (Photo: ARTHUR PAGE)
Oral biologists to test if better oral hygiene in ICU can reduce incidence of pneumonia
An intervention that may reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired pneumonia in ventilated patients in intensive-care units by up to 50 percent is being tested by UB researchers, supported by a $1.69 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. » Full Story
Internal searches set for three vice provost positions. Campus-wide searches to fill three vice provost positions in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs will commence at the start of the fall semester, Satish K. Tripathi said in a letter to the university community distributed on Aug. 18.
Grant to fund training to make library Web sites accessible to users with disabilities. While the power of the World Wide Web lies in its universality, the Web sites of most libraries are not fully accessible to those with disabilities and few librarians currently have the skills necessary to make them so.
"Citizen Kane" among films to be screened in "Buffalo Film Seminars." "Citizen Kane," considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made, will be among the offerings in the ninth edition of "Buffalo Film Seminars," the semester-long series of screenings and discussions sponsored by UB and the market Arcade Film and Arts Center.
NMDA receptors function as "frequency discriminator" for neurons, UB biophysicists have found. The NMDA receptor, a brain protein crucial for learning and memory, can function as a "frequency discriminator," translating stimulation frequency into current amplitude and possibly deciding whether the neuron will learn to become more or less receptive to future experiences, UB biophysicists have revealed.