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New associate dean hopes to increase UB's international influence

Students voice their views on feminist issues at Open Mic Night

Grant to fund organ donation campaign

Task force aims to internationalize UB

Task force aims to internationalize UB

Dean of School of Management to step down

After five progressive years, School of Management Dean John Thomas has announced his impending resignation.

Possible extinction of class cancellation

The 15-minute rule that allows students to leave class without academic penalty after waiting for a missing-in-action professor may soon become obsolete.The Student Wellness Center has developed a program called "Don't Cancel That Class" as an alternative to class cancellations.The service is new this semester and was made possible by a three-year government suicide-prevention grant.

Smooth transition for interim dean

UB study reveals that deal-finders don't hurt supermarkets

Consumers who partake in the art of "cherry picking," or only buying items that are on sale, are not as dangerous to retailers as previously thought.According to a recent study by associate professor of marketing, Debabrata Talukdar, though shoppers get a large percentage of discounts, it does not take a master cherry picker to find deals at the market."People who are extreme cherry pickers only get about 75 percent of the total discounts, but we also found that people who weren't actively seeking sales got about 50 percent of discounts," Talukdar said.According to Talukdar, people who contribute negatively to a store's profit are considered cherry pickers.

Degenerative diseases expert visits UB

The Department of Physiology and Biophysics hosted a lecture on Parkinson's disease by Professor Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D., of Boston University this past Thursday at Farber Hall.According to Wolozin, Parkinson's disease is a degenerative neurological disease caused by a certain genetic combination.