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  • "Self-Googling" Isn't Just Vanity; It's a Shrewd Form of Personal "Brand Management," Says UB Internet-Culture Expert
    3/29/04
    "Self-Googling" -- searching for your own name on the popular Google search engine -- may seem like an innocuous act of vanity, but a University at Buffalo communications professor recommends it as a shrewd form of "personal brand management" in the digital age.
  • Computer-Assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation Improves Substance-Abuse Treatment Response
    3/25/04
    "Brain exercises" originally developed for the rehabilitation of head-injury patients improve the cognitive functioning of individuals in substance-abuse treatment and their commitment to the treatment program, according to research conducted at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).
  • Researchers Show Chronic Sinusitis Is an Immune Disorder; Antifungal Medicine Is Effective in Its Treatment
    3/23/04
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo and the Mayo Clinic have shown that chronic sinusitis is an immune disorder caused by fungus, opening up a promising new avenue for treating this ubiquitous and debilitating condition, for which there is no FDA-approved therapy.
  • Emotional Intelligence Key to Winning on "The Apprentice"
    3/18/04
    Emotional intelligence is proving to be the deciding factor on who will win the dream job with Donald Trump on the hit NBC show "The Apprentice," according to a leadership professor at the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Sankyo Pharma Gives $100,000 to UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
    3/17/04
    Sankyo Pharma of Edison, N.J., a division of Sankyo Pharma Inc., has given $100,000 to the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo to support its teaching, training and research, as well as for equipment purchases in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  • Study Finds Fewer, But More Advanced, Colon Cancers in Postmenopausal Women on E&P Hormone Therapy
    3/16/04
    "Get a routine colonoscopy whether or not you are taking hormone therapy after menopause." That is the primary message women should take away from the latest study from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) on the relationship of estrogen and progestin replacement and colon cancer, said study co-author Jean Wactawski-Wende, Ph.D., from the University at Buffalo.
  • Experience Is More Effective than Classroom Learning in Changing Age Bias in Dental Students, UB Study Finds
    3/13/04
    Results of a program conducted at the University at Buffalo designed to dispel age bias among dental students has confirmed a universal truth: Experience is a more powerful teacher than words.
  • Protease-Inhibitor Cocktail Protects, Increases Anti-Microbial Action of Promising New Peptide, UB Oral Biologists Find
    3/11/04
    The anti-microbial activity of promising peptides shown in laboratory studies to kill several medically important fungi, some of which are resistant to current drugs, can be enhanced further by protecting the peptides from enzymes programmed to destroy them, University at Buffalo oral biologists have found.
  • New Peptide Derived from Protein in Saliva may be Promising Antifungal Agent, UB Oral Biologists Find
    3/10/04
    Searching for better treatments for oral infections that plague persons with compromised immune systems, oral biologists at the University at Buffalo have developed a novel peptide that appears to be a good candidate for treating candidiasis and other fungal conditions.
  • UB and Buffalo Public Schools to Host Program to Interest Middle School Girls in Science and Technology
    3/9/04
    Solar power. Robotic patients. Virtual earthquakes. These and other scientific wonders await 60 middle-school girls from the Buffalo Public Schools when they venture onto the University at Buffalo campus on March 27 for "Expanding Your Horizons: A Science/Math and Computing Program for Middle School Girls."