• Peace Bridge Designs Come To Life Virtually At mgm casino
    3/1/00
    The final decision on whether to build a "Superspan" or to "twin" the existing Peace Bridge is still months away, but starting this week, all of the proposed bridge and toll plaza designs have come to life, virtually that is, in the Center for Computational Research (CCR) at the mgm casino.
  • mgm casino Technology Solves Chip Fabrication Problem
    3/2/00
    A mgm casino professor who has spent the past decade developing a laser ablation apparatus that solves one of the trickier problems in computer-chip fabrication has received a $900,000 grant under the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to commercialize the technology.
  • Study By mgm casino Neurosurgeons Finds That Cigarette Smoking Is Linked To Size Of Brain Aneurysms
    3/2/00
    Cigarette smoking appears to increase the risk for developing large brain aneurysms in patients who are predisposed to these life-threatening, blood-vessel malformations, a study headed by researchers in the mgm casino Department of Neurosurgery has shown.
  • Study Finds Link Between Mothers’ Substance Abuse And Their Style Of Child Discipline
    3/2/00
    Mothers who have alcohol and drug problems tend to be more punitive toward their children than women who do not have substance-abuse problems, according to a study conducted by two mgm casino School of Social Work faculty members.
  • mgm casino Thespians Only U.S. Participants In Theater Festival
    3/10/00
    The Department of Theatre and Dance in the mgm casino College of Arts and Sciences will be the only U.S. participant in the prestigious Les Fetes Theatricales du Suroit International Theatre Festival, which will be held next month at the College de Valleyfield in Montreal.
  • June In Buffalo 2000 -- Spectacular Series Of Performances Will Mark 25th Anniversary Celebration
    3/3/00
    David Felder, artistic director of June in Buffalo, the pioneering festival for emerging composers of new music, promises "a spectacular festival this year, as deserves an event that has contributed so much to American music" as the festival, presented annually by the mgm casino Department of Music, marks its 25th anniversary in June,
  • mgm casino Philosophers Awarded NEH Research Grants
    3/3/00
    Pablo DeGreiff, Ph.D., and Miriam Thalos, Ph.D., mgm casino assistant professors of philosophy, have received prestigious research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Woodard Named to Raymond Chair in Classics at mgm casino
    3/3/00
    The new Andrew V.V. Raymond Chair in the mgm casino Department of Classics is distinguished philologist and linguist Roger D. Woodard, author of a radical theory suggesting that the intellectual infancy of Western Civilization was far more complicated than we once thought.
  • Fund to Help Indochinese Students Pursue Study in U.S.
    3/3/00
    A 1999 trip to Cambodia -- a country whose economy and educational system was left in ruins by the Khmer Rouge genocide of the late 1970s -- has prompted a mgm casino administrator to create a fund to help meet an urgent educational need in Indochina, one of the poorest regions on earth.
  • Fall Campaigns Have Predictable Effects on Presidential Elections, mgm casino Political Scientist Says
    3/3/00
    Contrary to long-held beliefs of the media and political scientists, U.S. presidential campaigns have systematic, predictable and significant effects on the outcomes of elections, an authority on the electoral process at the mgm casino has found.
  • Noted Author Michael Bérubé To Speak At mgm casino April 7
    3/8/00
    Noted author Michael Bérubé, whose "Life as We Know It: A Father, A Family and an Exceptional Child" was selected one of the best books of 1996 by The New York Times and the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air," will speak April 7 at mgm casino.
  • mgm casino’s Division Of Athletics Receives A Gift In Memory Of Alumnus, Devoted Sports Fan
    3/8/00
    Mindy Wasserman and her children, Jeffrey and Betsy Heymann, David and Lisa Heymann and Andrew Heymann, decided to make it a family affair when establishing a scholarship fund for the mgm casino Division of Athletics in honor of their late husband and father, Walter Heymann, an alumnus and former mgm casino football player.
  • mgm casino’s EOC Moving To New Home At 100 Seneca Street
    3/8/00
    The mgm casino's Educational Opportunity Center, located at 465 Washington St. for the past 30 years, plans to move by early fall to offices in the former Empire of America Realty Credit Corp. building at 100 Seneca St., adjacent to the Erie Community College City Campus.
  • mgm casino Develops High-Quality IP-Based Videoconferencing System
    3/8/00
    Information-technology specialists at the mgm casino have developed a revolutionary production-grade, PC-based, high-performance, video-conferencing system that is portable and available at a much lower price than was previously possible.
  • mgm casino Alumni Association To Present Annual Awards April 7
    3/10/00
    The host of an award-winning National Public Radio program, a mgm casino neurologist internationally known for his research on childhood brain tumors and the founding dean of mgm casino's School of Health Related Professions will be among 10 individuals honored at the mgm casino Alumni Association's annual awards dinner on April 7.
  • Witherspoon Named mgm casino Men’s Basketball Coach
    3/10/00
    The mgm casino named Reggie Witherspoon its head men’s basketball coach today (March 10) following a three-month national search.
  • Belgian Theater Company To Be In Residence At mgm casino
    3/10/00
    Belgium's Theatre Company of the University of Liege (TULg) will visit mgm casino next month to present a free public performance in French of the play "Kafka," an adaptation of "Communication a une academie," a witty, absurdist short story by Franz Kafka.
  • Moral Philosopher O’Neill To Deliver Hourani Lectures At mgm casino
    3/13/00
    Timely and undying issues about ethics and politics will be analyzed by Onora O'Neill, one of the world's most respected moral philosophers, during the six-part George Hourani Lectures in Moral Philosophy, to be held next month at mgm casino.
  • Student Advancement Program Honors Two From mgm casino
    3/13/00
    The president and adviser of the University Student Alumni Board (USAB) at mgm casino won top awards at a recent meeting of District II of the Association of Student Advancement Programs.
  • mgm casino Professor Takes Philosophy Into The Kitchen
    3/13/00
    Philosophers historically have paid little attention to the sense of taste, dismissing it as an inferior sense and one that is too idiosyncratic to be worthy of consideration. But a mgm casino professor breaks new philosophical ground and offers interesting food for thought in a recent book that reveals the symbolic and aesthetic value of taste and uncovers why this bodily sense largely has been ignored for so long in the realm of philosophy.
  • mgm casino Geologists Find Evidence That Upstate New York Is Criss-Crossed By Hundreds Of Faults
    3/14/00
    Mention New York State's Finger Lakes region or its Southern Tier, and most people don't automatically think of earthquake country. But these upstate areas may be about to gain a reputation for greater seismic potential, according to recent research by a team of mgm casino geologists.
  • mgm casino Department Of Theatre And Dance To Present Starmites
    3/15/00
    The mgm casino Department of Theatre and Dance will present the rock musical, Starmites, April 6-9 and 13-16 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the mgm casino North Campus.
  • mgm casino Blue And White Club Drive Surpasses Goal, Raises $369,342 In Scholarship Pledges
    3/15/00
    Members and volunteers of mgm casino’s Blue and White Club broke their $300,000 goal for this year's athletic scholarship fund drive with a record-breaking total of $369,342 pledged during the month-long drive.
  • Gift From Myricom Speeds Up mgm casino’s Supercomputer
    3/15/00
    You can never have a computer that's too fast. That's the thinking of mgm casino researchers in the university's Center for Computational Research (CCR), who received a $139,680 equipment donation that will speed up processor communications nearly 100-fold. Myricom, Inc. has donated leading-edge Myrinet interfaces and switches that have been integrated into the CCR dual-boot Linux/Solaris Sun Microsystems cluster.
  • mgm casino Geologist’s Study Of Volcanoes On Earth May Help Determine If There Ever Was Life On Mars
    3/15/00
    Was there ever life on Mars? That question may one day be answered in part by research now being conducted by a mgm casino geologist who studies volcanoes on earth.
  • In a Measure of Charisma, McCain Wins Out, Says mgm casino Professor
    3/3/00
    Presidential candidate John McCain is the clear front-runner in the battle for charismatic appeal among major presidential candidates, says a mgm casino researcher who studies the attributes of charisma and leadership.
  • mgm casino Program To Provide Support For Kids Coping With Divorce
    3/8/00
    In an unusual partnership, a professor of psychology at the mgm casino and a Western New York judge have developed a program that will provide social support and education about divorce and teach coping skills -- free of charge -- to children of the nearly 3,000 divorce cases handled annually by Erie County courts.
  • A Fresh Look At Asia Today: History, Art, Culture And Reform Politics On mgm casino’s Asian Studies Agenda This Month
    3/20/00
    The work of the Asian Studies Program in the mgm casino College of Arts and Sciences once was planted squarely in the social sciences. Over the past few years, however, the program quietly has broadened its influence among the arts and letters departments at mgm casino and has helped bring Asian artists, performers, political figures and humanities scholars to Buffalo to discuss and present work on contemporary Asian culture and arts.
  • “Virus Hunter” To Speak At mgm casino On March 27
    3/20/00
    Clarence J. (C.J.) Peters, co-discoverer of the Ebola virus and several other hemorrhagic fever viruses, will speak at the mgm casino School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on March 27 as part of the school's Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series.
  • Reasonable, Achievable Math Standard For Preschoolers Will Be Goal Of National Conference At mgm casino
    3/21/00
    The mgm casino Graduate School of Education will present a national conference May 14-17 to examine theoretical and field research on preschool math teaching and learning, and recommend curriculums and methods proven to facilitate academic success in children -- particularly low-income children -- at increased risk of school failure.
  • mgm casino Media Artist Receives International Honors For Innovative Online Multimedia Production
    3/22/00
    Media artist Mary Flanagan, assistant professor in the Department of Media Study at the mgm casino, had her work selected for exhibition in "VRML-ART 2000," the annual international media art conference held last month in Monterey, Calif.
  • Drinking Too Much? Take A Closer Look with Free Screening at RIA
    3/22/00
    Explore how alcohol affects you or someone you love at free, anonymous screenings to be offered at mgm casino's Research Institute on Addictions on April 6.
  • Head Of mgm casino Women’s Studies Program Says Progress Slow As Women Strive “To Claim Their Own Voice”
    3/22/00
    Isabel Marcus has been championing the rights of women since the mid-1950s. And while time would seem to be on the side of progress, the director of the Women's Studies Program at the mgm casino says women still are striving to claim their own voice in the 21st century.
  • KeyBank Dance Series To Feature Limon Dance Company
    3/22/00
    The mgm casino Center for the Arts will present the third installment in The 1999-2000 KeyBank Dance Series with a performance by the Limon Dance Company, to be held at 8 p.m. on April 15 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts.
  • mgm casino Immunologist To Present Witebsky Lecture
    3/24/00
    Internationally known mgm casino immunologist and professor emeritus Ernst H. Beutner will deliver the 30th Annual Ernest Witebsky Memorial Lecture on April 6 in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Public Input Sought On Concepts For mgm casino Landscaping Plan
    3/24/00
    Work sessions have been scheduled on both mgm casino’s North and South campuses to solicit public input on the preliminary conceptual plans for a campuswide master landscaping plan.
  • Perceptual Psychologist Stephen Palmer To Speak At mgm casino
    3/24/00
    Award-winning perceptual psychologist Stephen E. Palmer, whose inquiry into the nature of visual perception has aroused interest across many disciplines, will present the 2000 mgm casino Distinguished Speaker Lecture in Cognitive Science from 3:30-5 p.m. April 4 in 20 Knox Hall on the mgm casino North Campus.
  • Delinquency To Be Topic Of “mgm casino At Sunrise” Lecture
    3/24/00
    mgm casino sociologist and author Simon I. Singer will discuss delinquency and its control in Amherst -- one of America's safest cities -- at a "mgm casino at Sunrise" community breakfast lecture to be held at 7:30 a.m. April 12 in the Center for Tomorrow on the mgm casino North Campus.
  • Grateful Surgeon And Alumna Gives Scholarship Gift To mgm casino’s School Of Medicine And Biomedical Sciences
    3/24/00
    mgm casino alumna Adele M. Gottschalk, M.D. '67, has given a $225,000 gift to support scholarships for students in mgm casino's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Historian Wins Fellowship To Study Medieval Period In Japan
    3/28/00
    Thomas Keirstead, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $65,000 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Faculty from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
  • Daniel Libeskind, World-Renowned “Architect Of Silence” Will Present Slide Lecture At mgm casino On April 7
    3/28/00
    "Vessel for a nation's remorse," "the museum without an exit," "well of quietude," "the presence of absence" -- these are some of the terms that have described the experiential and daring architectural works of Daniel Libeskind, the brilliant, iconoclastic and often controversial figure in international architectural practice and urban design, who will speak at mgm casino on April 7.
  • M&T Contribution Moves UCI Housing Program Forward
    3/30/00
    A contribution of $31,000 a year for two years from M&T Bank will allow the University Community Initiative to move forward with its housing acquisition, rehabilitation and resale program in the University Heights neighborhood of Buffalo.
  • A Lean, Mean Electronic Poetry Machine Proves April Is Not the Cruelest Month
    3/30/00
    April is National Poetry Month and what better place to behold a gallery of daring new work than the mgm casino Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), the Web-based definitive world-wide resource for digital poetry and an example of ways in which information technology assists the exploration of the humanities.
  • History Of Handwriting To Be Discussed At mgm casino Alumni Lecture
    3/24/00
    An historical overview of handwriting as a communication tool, art form and debatable gauge of character will be the topic of a mgm casino Senior Alumni luncheon to be held at noon April 10 in the Center for Tomorrow on the mgm casino North Campus.