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<body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#dddddd" vlink="#000000" link="#006699">  <base href=""> <table width=99%> <tr>  <td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>VOLUME 33, NUMBER 10</b></font></td> <td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, November 8, 2001</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 valign="top"><img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Graphics/Cover.jpg" width="300" height="192"><br> <font size=1 face="arial">Photo: Jessica Kourkounis</font></td> <td valign="middle"> <p><font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="5">Dye<br> Hard </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="5" color="#006699"><br> </font> </p> <P> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Nico Pezzimenti, left, a fourth-grader at St. Joseph School, works with the dyeactually Kool-Aid and vinegarthat he and his classmates use to tie-dye pieces of cloth as part of National Chemistry Week activities on Nov. 8 coordinated by members of UB's Graduate Chemists Club. <p> </font> </td> </tr></table> <br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f1mark></font> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>Improving post-disaster response</b></font><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><i><font size="3">UB receives $2.5 million grant to apply information fusion to emergencies</font></i></font> </p> <p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Minutes after the first hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower on Sept. 11, information began to flow from the site to police, firefighters and other emergency personnel. </font></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </font><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></font> <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>Sloan funds new master's programs</b></font> <p><font size="2"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In recognition of its strengths in bioinformatics and related areas, UB has been awarded a major grant to develop professional master's degrees in disciplines closely related to bioinformatics by the prestigious Alfred P. 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