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Media Advisory: Watch high school students turn water into fire on Saturday
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo on Saturday will host BEAM TREK, a competition that tests the knowledge of local high school students and offers them a chance to win scholarships.
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Media Advisory: It’s not brain surgery—oh wait, yes it is! UB Neurosurgery gives Bennett High School students a ‘hands-on’ introduction
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Twenty Bennett High School students will have the opportunity to check out brain surgery on May 17 when they tour the Gates Vascular Institute, hosted by the University at Buffalo Department of Neurosurgery.
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Volcanologist can discuss ‘Popo’, the ash-spewing volcano that has towns near Mexico City on alert
BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo volcanologist Michael Sheridan can discuss Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano, which has been coughing up ash, gas and molten rock over the past few days.
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Emotional response to climate change influences whether we seek or avoid further information
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Sixty-two percent of Americans now say they believe that global warming is happening, but 46 percent say they are “very sure” or “extremely sure” that it is not. Only 49 percent know why it is occurring, and about as many say they’re not worried about it, according to the April report of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
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Carnivorous plant throws out ‘junk’ DNA
IRAPUATO, MEXICO/BUFFALO, N.Y. — The newly sequenced
genome of the carnivorous bladderwort contradicts the notion that
vast quantities of noncoding DNA are crucial for complex life.
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Reform of New York State drug laws is focus of major UB conference
BUFFALO, N.Y. – On May 2 and 3, UB and the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) will present “Leading the Way: Toward a Public Health & Safety Approach to Drug Policy in New York,” a conference designed to convene more than 35 local, state, national, and international political leaders, government officials, community organizations, leading academics, service providers, advocates and others to discuss the need to reform current drug New York State laws.
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More than $60K awarded in UB entrepreneurship competition
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Three UB students took first place in the University at Buffalo’s Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC) for their plan to manufacture a material coating that can regulate heat from the sun in any building creating “smart” windows or surfaces.
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‘Practical Herbalism’ and wild foods seminar begins UBThisSummer program
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo’s annual menu of intellectually stimulating, fun and sometimes offbeat summer workshops and courses kicks off next week with a program that will give participants an introduction to preparing herbal remedies and cooking a wild food buffet.
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Art and cultural historian Elizabeth Otto named executive director of University at Buffalo Humanities Institute
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute (HI), the single most important entity supporting the humanities in Western New York since 2005, has announced the appointment of Elizabeth Otto, PhD, as new executive director, effective July 1.
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UB’s Jerold Frakes named a 2013-14 Guggenheim Foundation fellow
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Jerold C. Frakes, PhD, professor of English at the University at Buffalo, a highly-regarded scholar of medieval literatures, has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to support his study of the emergence of early Yiddish literature during the 2013-14 academic year.
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