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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 29</b></font></td> <td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, June 27, 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> </td> <td valign="middle"> <p><font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="5">High<br> Tech<br> Team </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Gov. George Pataki (right) congratulates Jeffrey Skolnick, director of the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, after announcing Skolnick's appointment at University Industry Day on May 9.</font></p> </td> </tr></table> <br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f1mark></font> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>SUNY recognizes UB inventors<br> </b><i><font size="3">22 hailed as being among the outstanding inventors within the state system</font></i></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Twenty-two inventors affiliated with UB have been recognized by SUNY as being among the outstanding inventors within the state university system. </font> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </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, 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Editorial offices are located at <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/" target="_parent"><b>UB News Services</b></a>, 330 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><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Associate Vice President for University Services:</b> Carole Smith Petro<br> <b>Director of News Services:</b> Arthur Page<br> <b>Director of Periodicals and Editor:</b> Sue Wuetcher<br> <b>Assistant Editor:</b> Donna Longenecker<br> <b>Design Assistant:</b> Kristen Kowalski<br> <b>Contributing Editors:</b> Lois Baker, John Della Contrada, Patricia Donovan, Ellen Goldbaum, <br> S.A. Unger, Christine Vidal, Ann Whitcher<br> <b>Online Publisher:</b> Kristen Kowalski</font></font></font></td> </tr></table> </body>