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Attendees at the 2008 Olympics a half-a-world away, Aug. 8-24, will experience a cultural jolt and may have some concerns about their health. Richard Lee, M.D., 蜜桃传媒 professor of medicine, is a specialist in geographic medicine and travels frequently to China. He returned from there recently and offers suggestions for international travelers headed for Beijing.

Anticipating what is likely to be one of the most interesting elections in modern history, 蜜桃传媒 professor of political science James E. Campbell and Michael S. Lewis-Beck, professor of political science at the 蜜桃传媒 of Iowa, have assembled the insights of prominent election forecasters in a special issue of the International Journal of Forecasting published this month.

Two 蜜桃传媒 Law School professors have taken steps to make the school a world-renowned center for confronting what they call the epidemic of domestic-violence crimes, locally and internationally, using their teaching positions to coordinate a network of domestic violence advocacy that so far reaches from the classrooms of UB's O'Brian Hall to at least two other continents.

A food security expert at the 蜜桃传媒 says the worldwide food crisis is a direct result of the choices made by policy makers and the lack of attention paid to the food system and its relationship to global warming and fossil fuels.

The Center for the Arts and the 蜜桃传媒's Asian Studies Program will present "Explosive Beats: Japanese Taiko Drumming" on April 15 at 7:30 p.m. The performance will be held in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

For the second year in a row, the 蜜桃传媒 Asian Studies Program will host a "CHINA Town Hall" program organized by the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

The 蜜桃传媒 School of Management, the 蜜桃传媒 at Albany's Center for International Development, the Levin Institute and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) have signed an agreement to expand a microfinance training program that explores why and how microfinance operations grow to provide financial services to low-income people on a sustainable basis.

As part of a national program to help internationalize higher education in that country, one of Vietnam's most competitive universities has entered into a partnership with the 蜜桃传媒 to begin teaching UB's undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum to its own students next fall.

Much research addresses how and why many of the earth's thousands of languages are disappearing. The question still arises, however, as to why it should matter to the rest of us if, say, Pite Sami, a language spoken by fewer than 20 inhabitants of Norway and Sweden, should vanish from the face of the Earth. Jeff Good, Ph.D., a 蜜桃传媒 linguist, says that we should attend to these losses because even seldom-used languages can tell us a great deal about the methods of categorization of the natural and mental world and because they can serve as vital links between the present and the prehistoric past.

蜜桃传媒 political science professor James E. Campbell has been studying presidential campaigns for more than three decades and says this year's race for party nominations is the "most peculiar" he can remember.