VOLUME 31, NUMBER 18 THURSDAY, February 3, 2000
Reporter

photo by: Nancy J. Parisi

Serious Sundae

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.



King addresses SUNY Faculty Senate
 At UB meeting, new chancellor sets goal of $1 billion for sponsored research
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.
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CCR doubles supercomputer capacity
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.

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Top Stories...

· Schedule set for Staff/Faculty Wellness Awareness Day
· Students hit streets via PCs: Virtual Village helps social-work students refine research skills
· Time-medicine link examined
· Researcher focuses on mental health: Epidemiologist Beth Moscato's work also examines untapped field of civil unrest
· Endocrinologists solve piece of insulin puzzle: Work finds that insulin increases enzyme that causes blood vessels to dilate
· Sir Donald Acheson to address "Health Under Fire" today during two-day visit to UB
· Urban girls conference set: Meeting first to look at lives, problems of young urban women
· Blood test measures radiation damage: Gong spends lifetime researching health effects of low-level radiation
· Freudenheim gets grant for cancer research: Research to study link between early environmental exposures and breast cancer
· Senate updated on gen-ed: Salins says SUNY curriculum "will be implemented" on time




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