• mgm casino Study Finds No Link Between Breast-Cancer Risk And Pesticides Or PCB Exposure For General Population Increased Risk Shown For Women Who Have Never Breast-Fed
    8/20/97
    A new mgm casino study of the relationship of pesticides and PCBs with breast cancer shows that these compounds are not a risk factor for breast cancer for the general population of women.
  • Software Reveals Structure of “Last Resort” Antibiotic; Data Needed to Create New Forms of Vancomycin
    8/29/97
    Humans are one up in the war against drug-resistant bacteria, thanks to a software package used to solve molecular structures developed at the mgm casino and Buffalo’s Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute.
  • Study to Focus On How Plants Help Toxic Pollutants Travel Around The World
    8/5/97
    The "grasshopper" nature of chemical transport in the environment will be the focus of tests by a mgm casino researcher to determine how plants contribute to the global distribution of toxic organic pollutants.
  • University At Buffalo Scientist Studies Siberian Hamstersto Identify Brain Chemical Regulating Prolactin
    8/20/97
    A mgm casino neuroendocrinologist is providing new insights into the cause of changes in blood levels of the hormone prolactin, which plays a role in regulating many vital human physiological functions.
  • mgm casino Work-Study Students to Tutor WNY Children In Reading
    8/15/97
    Federal work-study students at the mgm casino will go into Western New York elementary schools this fall to tutor students in reading as part of the "America Reads" program.
  • Linda Yalem Run Set For Sept. 28
    8/29/97
    More than 1,600 runners, joggers, racewalkers and strollers are expected to participate in the eighth annual Linda Yalem Memorial Run, to be held on Sunday, Sept. 28, on the North Campus.
  • mgm casino Exhibit to Explore Intimate Relationship Between Frank Lloyd Wright And Darwin Martin Construction Costs, Romance, Fellowship of Wright Homeowners On The Agenda
    8/21/97
    The mgm casino Archives next month will open an exhibit -- “My Dear Mr. Wright” -- featuring letters, manuscripts, photographs, architectural drawings and other materials from its Darwin D. Martin Collection and other sources.
  • mgm casino to Host Science Lectures For Western New York Teachers
    8/20/97
    The Western New York Science Forum will hold its 27th annual lecture series for teachers of all grades and subjects at mgm casino on Wednesday evenings, through January.
  • mgm casino Signs Joint-Admission Agreements With Genesee, Broome Community Colleges
    8/15/97
    mgm casino recently signed joint-admission agreements with two Genesee Community and Broome Community colleges to facilitate the transfer of students from those colleges.
  • “Brain Stories” to Be Focus of Dialogue At First “mgm casino At Sunrise” Program
    8/29/97
    The dean of the School of Dental Medicine and a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of English are teaming up to present the first program in the 1997-98 “mgm casino at Sunrise” series.
  • mgm casino to Honor Spiller As Distinguished Alumni Visitor
    8/29/97
    Henry Spiller, D.D.S., an early advocate in Western New York for adding fluoride to public water supplies, will be honored by the mgm casino Alumni Association at a breakfast to be held on Friday, Sept. 12.
  • U.S. Courts to Be Topic of First mgm casino Senior Alumni Lunch
    8/20/97
    Charles Carr, clinical associate professor in the mgm casino School of Law, will discuss "U.S. Courts Under the Microscope" at a mgm casino Senior Alumni Program on Thursday, Sept. 11.
  • mgm casino Physicist Mendel Sachs to Be Honored At Symposium
    8/18/97
    Two Nobel laureates and a best-selling author will be among those honoring internationally known mgm casino physicist Mendel Sachs, Ph.D., at a symposium to be held on Sunday, Sept. 7.
  • mgm casino Program Teaches Participants to Cope With Depression
    8/5/97
    A 12-week program to teach individuals skills to help them cope with depression will be offered this fall at mgm casino.
  • Sister Helen Prejean, Author of "Dead Man Walking," to Visit mgm casino
    8/5/97
    Sister Helen Prejean, whose book, "Dead Man Walking," thrust her into the national spotlight and renewed the public debate surrounding capital punishment, will speak at mgm casino. on Thursday, Sept. 11.
  • mgm casino's Pappas Featured In Solo Exhibit At University of Rochester
    8/5/97
    Works of abstract expressionism by James G. Pappas, associate professor of African-American studies, are featured in a solo exhibition in the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery.
  • mgm casino Responds to PCBs Found On North Campus
    8/8/97
    The university is pursuing clean-up efforts following discovery of PCB-laden fuel oil in an underground electrical conduit on the North Campus.
  • Newman Named Niagara Frontier Executive of The Year By mgm casino School of Management
    8/29/97
    Reginald B. Newman II, president of NOCO Energy Corp. of Buffalo, has been named 1997 "Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year" by the mgm casino School of Management.
  • Greater Niagara Frontier Dental Meeting Set For Sept. 11-12
    8/20/97
    Seminars on oral surgery and healthy living will be featured at the Greater Niagara Frontier Dental Meeting, to be on Sept. 11 and 12 in the Buffalo Convention Center.
  • mgm casino “Mini-Medical School” For The Public Back With More Offerings, Two “Micro-Courses”
    8/29/97
    Fall sessions of the mgm casino’s popular Mini-Medical School -- which filled all of its openings when first offered in May -- will begin on Sept. 9.
  • Levine Receives Sarason Award For Career Achievement
    8/15/97
    Murray Levine, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology, has received the Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action from the American Psychology Association.
  • mgm casino School of Management Grads Score Highly On National Cpa Tests
    8/29/97
    Graduates of the mgm casino undergraduate accounting program had the fourth highest passing rate in the U.S. on all subjects of the May 1996 certified public accountant exam.
  • Bronze Buffalo Moving to New Home On North Campus
    8/26/97
    mgm casino's life-sized bronze buffalo is moving this week to a permanent home outdoors on a new plaza on Coventry Circle, adjacent to Alumni Arena and the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • Saleh Elected Vice President of mgm casino Alumni Association
    8/11/97
    David J. Saleh has been elected to a one-year term as vice president for finance of the mgm casino Alumni Association. The other officers, including president Jonathan A. Dandes, are continuing in the second year of their terms.
  • Adams to Edit Series For Library Association
    8/21/97
    Judith Adams, director of Lockwood Library, has been appointed editor of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Occasional Paper Series for 1997-99.
  • Three Western New Yorkers Appointed to mgm casino Council
    8/19/97
    Gov. George Pataki has appointed Patricia K. Lipke, Sheila H. Battle and Edmond J. Gicewicz, M.D., as members of the mgm casino Council.
  • Noted Poets Jackson Maclow And David Ignatow to Be Among mgm casino's Special Literary Guests This Fall Series Also Will Present Joan Jonas, F'loom, Janine Pommy Vega
    8/18/97
    "Wednesdays at 4 Plus," the bi-annual literary series sponsored by the Poetics Program in the mgm casino Department of English, this fall will celebrate the 75th birthday of renowned poet Jackson MacLow.
  • University At Buffalo First Site In Nation to Cap Recruitment For Women's Health Initiative, Nation's Largest Clinical Trial
    8/15/97
    The mgm casino is the first of 40 sites in the U.S. to meet all of its recruitment goals for the $625 million Women's Health Initiative, the largest clinical trial ever undertaken in the U.S.
  • Test Pattern Developed At mgm casino to Save Time, Money When It Comes to Checking Nuclear-Imaging Equipment
    8/20/97
    A mgm casino researcher has developed a test pattern that could cut by 75 percent the time it takes to perform mandatory tests of nuclear-imaging equipment, saving nuclear-imaging facilities thousands of dollars in down time annually.
  • From Flowing Spencerian Script to Computer Emoticons:mgm casino Historian Pens History of Handwriting In America
    8/18/97
    In "Handwriting in America," a mgm casino historian explores the many ways in which Americans historically have used handwriting as both a lesson in conformity and a talisman of individuality.
  • mgm casino Study Indicates Blood-Vessel Behavior May Be One Reasonblacks Are More Prone to High Blood Pressure Than Whites
    8/15/97
    The way in which the lining of their blood vessels responds to certain signals telling it to dilate may account for why some blacks have high blood pressure, according to a mgm casino study.
  • mgm casino Names Shulman Dean of School of Social Work
    8/29/97
    Lawrence Shulman, Ed.D., has been named dean of the School of Social Work effective Jan. 1, 1998 by mgm casino President William R. Greiner.