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<base href=""> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#dddddd" vlink="#000000" link="#006699"> <table width="475" border="0"> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/blank.gif" alt=" " width="2" height="2" border="0"> </td> <td> <table width=99%> <tr><td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>VOLUME 31, NUMBER 18</b></font> </td><td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, February 3, 2000</b></font> </td></tr> </table> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/Flag.gif" alt="Reporter" width="450" height="77"> <table border="0"> <tr><td><img src="Graphics/cover.gif" alt="" width="300" height="205" alt=""><br> <font size=1 face="arial">photo by: Nancy J. Parisi</font></td> <td valign="middle"> <p> <font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="6">Serious Sundae</font> <P> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> Jeff Pfeifer and Melissa Diaz help themselves to the 100-foot-long ice cream sundae set up in the Student Union last week as part of Jumpstart January. The sundae was served in a foil-lined aluminum gutter. </td></tr></table> <br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f1mark><b>King addresses SUNY Faculty Senate<br></b> <i>At UB meeting, new chancellor sets goal of $1 billion for sponsored research</i></font><br> In an address to the SUNY-wide Faculty Senate in Buffalo last Friday, Chancellor Robert King told senators that his major objectives as the new chief administrative officer of the university system include a sponsored-research goal of $1 billion, an enhanced public image through better marketing and advertising strategies, and an aggressive effort by the campuses to attain alumni involvement and support. <div align="right"><a href="f1.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f2mark><b>CCR doubles supercomputer capacity</b> </font><br> An extremely enthusiastic response by faculty to the year-old, high-performance computing facilities in the Center for Computational Research (CCR) has prompted the center to double the capacity of its most powerful machine, a 64-processor SGI Origin2000 supercomputer. By acquiring 64 additional processors and a high-speed interconnect, the CCR now has a 128-processor Origin2000 supercomputer. <div align="right"><a href="f2.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p><br> <a name="Top_Stories"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3"><b>Top Stories...</b></font><br> <center> <table width="90%" border="0"> <tr><td> · <a href="n1.html"> Schedule set for Staff/Faculty Wellness Awareness Day</a><br> · <a href="n2.html"> Students hit streets via PCs: <i>Virtual Village helps social-work students refine research skills</i></a><br> · <a href="n3.html"> Time-medicine link examined</a><br> · <a href="n4.html"> Researcher focuses on mental health: <i>Epidemiologist Beth Moscato's work also examines untapped field of civil unrest</i></a><br> · <a href="n5.html"> Endocrinologists solve piece of insulin puzzle: <i>Work finds that insulin increases enzyme that causes blood vessels to dilate </i></a><br> · <a href="n6.html"> Sir Donald Acheson to address "Health Under Fire" today during two-day visit to UB</a><br> · <a href="n7.html"> Urban girls conference set: <i>Meeting first to look at lives, problems of young urban women</i></a><br> · <a href="n8.html"> Blood test measures radiation damage: <i>Gong spends lifetime researching health effects of low-level radiation</i></a><br> · <a href="n9.html"> Freudenheim gets grant for cancer research: <i>Research to study link between early environmental exposures and breast cancer</i></a><br> · <a href="n10.html"> Senate updated on gen-ed: <i>Salins says SUNY curriculum "will be implemented" on time</i></a><br> </td></tr> </table> </center> <p> <center> <br><br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> <a href="front.html" target="Right">Front Page</a> | <a href="front.html#Top_Stories" target="Right">Top Stories</a> | <a href="briefly.html" target="Right">Briefly</a> | <a href="qa.html" target="Right">Q&A</a> | <a href="transit.html" target="Right">Transitions</a> | <a href="eh.html" target="Right">Electronic Highways</a> <br> <a href="sports.html" target="Right">Sports</a> | <a href="ex.html" target="Right">Exhibits, Notices, Jobs</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/calendar" target="_top">Events</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/" target="_parent">Current Issue</a> | <a href="mailto:reporter@ubnews.buffalo.edu" target="Right">Comments?</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Archives.html" target="Right">Archives</a> <br> <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Search.html" target="Right">Search</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/index.html" target="_parent">UB Home</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/index.html" target="_parent">UB News Services</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/UBT/index.html" target="_parent"><i>UB Today</i></a> </font> </center> <br> <hr noshade width="90%" size="1"> <font size="2"> <i>The Reporter</i> is a campus community newspaper published by the Division of University Services, State University of New York at Buffalo. Editorial offices are located at <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/" target="_parent"><b>UB News Services</b></a>, 136 Crofts Hall, Amherst, NY, 14260, 716-645-2626. <br><br> <i>The Reporter</i> publishes in print and online every Thursday during the academic year.<br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Associate Vice President for University Services:</b></font> Carole Smith Petro<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Director of News Services:</b></font> Arthur Page<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Associate Director of News Services and Editor:</b></font> Sue Wuetcher<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Assistant Editor:</b></font> Mara McGinnis<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Art Director:</b></font> Rebecca Farnham<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Design Assistant:</b></font> Kristen Kowalski<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>News Services Editors:</b></font> Lois Baker, Patricia Donovan, Ellen Goldbaum, Mary Beth Spina, Christine Vidal<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Online Publisher:</b></font> Liz Holland </font> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table>