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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 27</b></font></td> <td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, May 2, 2002</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="Graphics/Cover.jpg" width="300" height="200"><br> <font size=1 face="arial">Photo: Nancy J. Parisi</font></td> <td valign="middle"> <p><font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="5">Senior<br> Brunch </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Daniel Heims, a graduate student who works in the Leadership Development Center, pours up some special "UB" pancakes during the annual Senior Brunch, held April 24 in the Student Union. Deborah Barone, a physician's assistant in the Student Health Center, works on some Mickey Mouse flapjacks.</font></p> </td> </tr></table> <br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f1mark></font> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>UB's highest honor to go to Jacobs<br> </b><i><font size="3">UB faculty member, renowned researcher to receive Norton Medal posthumously</font></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The late Lawrence D. Jacobs, who was professor and chair of the Department of Neurology and a world-renowned researcher in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, has been chosen to receive posthumously UB's highest award, the Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal. </font> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font> <font size="2"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </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></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>Donor's gifts now total $7.2 million</b></font> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">An anonymous donor has given another $800,000 to the Distinguished Honors Scholars Program, bringing to $7.2 million the donor's total gifts to this program, and reaffirming a 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