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A New Holm For Biomedical Pursuits

Dr. Bruce Holm, senior associate dean for the school of medicine, will be the first individual to hold a new administrative office, created to keep pace with UB's advances in the high-tech area of biomedical sciences.


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Buying Beauty On Both Sides of the Ocean

In a compelling lecture titled "Purchasing Pleasure: Images of Women in French and American Magazines" in the Center for the Arts Monday evening, French professor Jeanette Ludwig evaluated differences in the portrayal of the feminine experience in magazine advertisements in the United States and abroad.Ludwig, an associate professor in the modern languages and literature department, recalled looking through a magazine with her daughter, Sarah, who was enchanted by an ad featuring a couple dressed in formal wear and engaged in a romantic balcony scene."She turned the page and said, 'I want that, I want to be there,'" said Ludwig.


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Wrestling Falls to Top Ranked Opponents

The University at Buffalo's wrestling team entered competition last weekend coming off an impressive outing at the New York State Championships, and was looking to carry that success over into their dual meets.This would not be the case, however, as the Bulls tripped, stumbled and plummeted their way to two-straight losses against top 25 teams Kent State and West Virginia."Kent has been playing spectacular and West Virginia is the 12th-ranked team in the nation," said Bulls Head Coach Jim Beichner.Buffalo dropped to 1-2 in the MAC courtesy of a 28-9 drubbing at Kent State Friday.


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Feet First

"What you do is as important as anything government does."- President George W. Bush"Good evening, America.


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Swim Teams Each Split Weekend Meets

The UB men's and women's swim teams both went 1-1 Saturday as they split conference tri-meets with Ball State and Bowling Green in Muncie, Ind.Buffalo's men's swimming team earned their first MAC victory of the season with a 127-109 win over Bowling Green, however losing to the host team, Ball State, by a 183-54 score.


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"A Beautiful Heart, A Diseased Mind"

"A Beautiful Mind" is a beautiful movie. Growing up with an older sister who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder and manic depression, I saw echoes of my family's own experience in the onscreen hardships of mathematical genius and schizophrenic John Forbes Nash Jr.


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Campbell's Effort Not Enough as Bulls Fall Short to Northwestern

When opportunity comes knocking, you'd better be there to answer it. Saturday night, at home against the Big Ten's Northwestern Wildcats, the Bulls held up a "Do Not Disturb" sign every time opportunity approached.In the last 10 minutes of the men's game, the Bulls had 13 chances to either tie or take the lead against the Wildcats.


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Veridian Expands Engineering Library Collection

Veridian, an engineering research corporation, has donated several decades' worth of research materials - including technical reports, books and journals - to UB, as part of the university's $250 million fund-raising campaign."Overall, it's a major addition to the collection," said Nancy Schiller, associate librarian of the Science and Engineering Library, where the materials will be housed.


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Catholic HMOs

Finding a health maintenance organization that meets one's needs should not be left to chance. But in some cases even these needs is not met, nor even mentioned.


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From Activist Jailbird to Associate English Professor

Most students probably wouldn't guess that a UB English professor from a small Bavarian town in Germany who holds a doctorate degree from Yale and studies Dante in Italian was once arrested and spent time in the slammer.It was 1971 and college students were protesting against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War."We had cops on campus with tear gas and a K-9 squad, supposedly stopping students from rioting," said professor Max Wickert.


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Letter To The Editor

It's embarrassing. When I tell people I know I go to UB, of which fact I am very proud of, they immediately say to me, "Wow, Joe, you must be rich to go to that college where they pay their teachers $8,000 a week for teaching a class!"Then I have to tell them, "Oh, no.


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CSE Department Receives $1 Million Grant

UB's department of computer science and engineering was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to invest in a massive data storage system that will enable pioneering multidisciplinary research in bioinformatics, the use of supercomputers to analyze biological data, and geographical information sciences (GIS), among other research areas.The highly competitive five-year grant provides 25 terabytes - or 25,000 gigabytes - of state-of-the-art computer storage necessary to manage and analyze multidimensional data sets.


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We Are The Romans

"A millennium ago, there existed a powerful empire, born from the ideals of liberty, scholarship and a free society, which grew to become one of the most awesome superpowers the world had ever seen."Its culture spread and assimilated others and drastic developments were made in technology, literature, arts and the democratic system.


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