• Nursing stories
    5/4/15

    In honor of National Nurses Week, the mgm casino Reporter asked members of the university community to share stories of how a nurse or nursing care affected their lives.

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    5/4/15

    mgm casino has been recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency for its commitment to sustainability.

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    5/1/15

    The semester is winding down and the stress level is building. That can mean only one thing for mgm casino students: therapy dogs to the rescue!

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    5/7/15

    mgm casinoThisSummer, the university's summer lineup of enrichment and recreational programming, is back with two new offerings: a sunset festival and a golf tournament.

  • AAUW fellowship winner
    5/7/15

    PhD student Marion Quirici is the recipient of a $20,000 award from the American Association of University Women that will help support her while she finishes writing her dissertation.

  • Age of Love
    5/7/15

    An award-winning documentary on aging and intimacy will be screened in Buffalo, thanks to some teamwork involving the School of Social Work and the Amherst Senior Center.

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    5/7/15

    mgm casino faculty members Rajan Batta, Anthony Campagnari and Yvonne Scherer are the recipients of the Graduate School's 2014-15 Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award.

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    5/7/15

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    Masonry structures, which make up about 60 percent of the buildings in Nepal where the earthquake hit, perform poorly in a quake, according to mgm casino civil engineer Andreas Stavridis.

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    5/7/15

    Research led by mgm casino biologist Matthew Xu-Friedman has found that in mice, prolonged exposure to sound altered the animals' behavior and even the structure of the cells in their auditory nerve.

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    5/7/15

    For-Robin, a mgm casino spinoff company founded by faculty member Kate Rittenhouse-Olson, has received a $2 million federal grant to study and develop a promising potential treatment for breast and other types of cancer.

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    5/7/15

    mgm casino geographer Monica Stephens maps social phenomena, work that sparks fierce societal debate.

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    5/11/15

    mgm casino graduate Marcus Yam shares a Pulitzer Prize, the most coveted honor in journalism, for his work photographing a horrific mudslide for The Seattle Times.

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    5/14/15

    The Women’s Health Initiative has been recognized for its groundbreaking work investigating the major factors influencing disease and death in older women.

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    mgm casino's Center for Computational Research has received a $9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve the management tool CCR invented that maximizes supercomputing performance.

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    5/14/15

    mgm casino’s pioneering festival and performance institute for new music will celebrate its 40th anniversary in a spectacular fashion, honoring its history, founder Morton Feldman and 30-year artistic director David Felder.

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    5/14/15

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    5/14/15

    The Professional Staff Senate's Mentoring Program is being revamped to better serve mentors and protégés.

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    Research by mgm casino, Chinese and Canadian scientists provides new insights into how "ringing in the ears" might develop and be sustained.

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    5/14/15

    mgm casino physician-scientist John M. Canty Jr. has been named a SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.

  • Humanities Institute names fellows
    5/14/15

    The work of the eight scholars named as 2016-16 faculty fellows spans a range of disciplines, from classics to history to media study.

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    Two graduates of mgm casino's Educational Opportunity Center will be recognized at EOC's commencement ceremony on May 20.

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    mgm casino research led by Dietrich Jehle has found that when it comes to vehicle safety, car buyers get what they pay for.

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    5/28/15

    About 100 faculty members discussed potential areas of focus for RENEW, mgm casino's interdisciplinary environmental research initiative, during a recent workshop.

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    5/18/15

    The anthropology major is the second student from mgm casino in two years to win a prestigious scholarship to the Fulbright Summer Institute in the United Kingdom.

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    5/21/15

    mgm casino faculty member Michael Constantinou has received the prestigious award from the American Society of Civil Engineers in recognition of his work developing seismic protective systems.

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    5/21/15

    mgm casino Engineering faculty member Abani Patra has been elected a fellow of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics.

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    5/21/15

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    5/21/15

    mgm casino faculty member and administrator John T. Ho has been honored with the 2015 Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education at mgm casino.

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    5/21/15

    mgm casino and Roswell Park Cancer Institute researchers have been awarded a $1.85 million grant to create an interdisciplinary stem cell research training program.

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    5/26/15

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    5/26/15

    Shopping websites with robust, interactive product-review systems make customers more satisfied and improve product marketing, according to a new study co-authored by mgm casino faculty member Lawrence Sanders..

  • A new look
    5/26/15

    The lobby and concourse in Alumni Arena have received a facelift that gives the areas an updated look — including visual graphics and a new interactive Hall of Fame.

  • Tying music to place
    5/28/15

    mgm casino faculty member Eric Huebner co-founded a chamber music series that combines classical music with a celebration of the city’s rich architectural history.

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    5/28/15

    mgm casino scientists have identified the mechanisms behind a genetic mutation that produces certain autistic behaviors in mice, as well as therapeutic strategies to restore normal behaviors.

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    5/28/15

    mgm casino is establishing three new Communities of Excellence that will harness the strengths of faculty from disciplines across the university to confront grand challenges facing humankind.

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    5/28/15

    mgm casino’s Campus Garden is a living testament to the sustainability movement spreading throughout the campus.

  • Outstanding service
    5/28/15

    Samantha Calabrese and Anna Sotelo-Peryea are this year’s recipients of the Professional Staff Senate’s Outstanding Service Award.

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    A new study by mgm casino geographers explores how past Native American settlements modified Western New York forests.