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Vol. 39, No. 26 March 27, 2008 INSIDE … A look at Attracting the digital video best students L In this week’s Q&A, Suzanne M i l l e r t a l k s UB Engineering offers new incentives about the pow- By ELLEN GOLDBAUM Dean Harvey G. Stenger Jr. er of the digital Contributing Editor The program offers exceptional video medium T’S an annual rite of spring: students annual scholarships rang- and the Gradu- high school seniors discussing ing from $3,000 to full tuition, ate School of Education’s City with their parents one of the room, board and fees, totaling Voices, City Visions project. most important decisions they approximately $15,300 for in-state PAGE 2 Iface—where to attend college. students and $21,600 for out-of- Luke Scannell from Schodack state students. Landing near Albany, now a fresh- In its inaugural year, the 24 fresh- man in the School of Engineering men entering UB last fall as Dean’s and Applied Sciences, remembers Scholars had an average SAT score how he decided to come to UB. of 1433, collectively boosting the Scannell, who had participated average UB engineering fresh- in the Science Olympiad in high man SAT score by 20 points. They Memorable school, was sure he wanted to graduated at or near the top of pursue engineering, but he wasn’t their high school classes. murders sure where. “These students are deciding be- UB Law professor Charles Pat- During his visit to UB last tween UB and schools like Cornell, rick Ewing has released a new spring, he was impressed with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute book that takes readers into the its environmental engineering and Rochester Institute of Tech- minds of David Berkowitz, John laboratories, as well as the school’s nology,” says Stenger. “We want Wayne Gacy and other notori- internationally known Structural them to know that in addition to ous murderers and debunks Engineering and Earthquake Sim- the scholarship, they’re going to re- the stereotypes surrounding ulation Laboratory. ceive personal attention once they the insanity defense. PHOTO: NANCY J. PARISI Then he found out that UB get here. Students in this program PAGE 3 Engineering had something ex- have a close relationship with the tra in mind for him: the Dean’s professors and administrators in V-Day at UB Is UB open? Scholars Program, which rewards the engineering school.” Faculty, staff and students look- academically talented applicants That relationship doesn’t end The handprints and signatures of members of the UB ing for information about the with four-year scholarships, as after orientation, Stenger notes. community who denounce violence mark a window university’s office hours and well as special academic and net- All 24 freshmen in the UB En- of the Student Union in support of V-Day, a global class schedules during inclem- working opportunities, as long as gineering Dean’s Scholars Program movement to end violence against women and girls. ent weather can call 645-NEWS a student maintains a grade-point are Stenger’s advisees during the or sign up to receive a text mes- average of at least 3.0. critical fi rst year. sage sent to their cell phone That, Scannell says, made his de- Throughout the academic year, and/or an email account. The telephone line will cision easy: He would attend UB. Dean’s Scholars also are involved tailgate party hosted by the dean at “We are doing these things to be available 24 hours a day. With cost a major factor in the in various social and networking the UB-Toledo football game. anchor the students, to let them get The recorded message will be great majority of college decisions, events, including dinners with This spring, the group will take comfortable and to give them the updated and a text messaging the Dean’s Scholars Program, insti- the dean. Last fall, they visited the in a Buffalo Bisons baseball game, opportunity to do their very best alert will be issued as soon as tuted in 2007, is designed to attract GM PowerTrain plant, took the tour Northrop Grumman-Am- at UB,” Stenger says. university offi cials decide to and retain the best and brightest Miss Buffalo cruise on Lake Erie herst Systems and visit Fisher-Price So far, they seem to be doing alter office hours and class applicants, says UB Engineering and attended with their parents a in East Aurora. schedules due to weather con- Continued on Page 7 ditions or other situations. To receive text-messaging alerts, go to http://emer- gency.buffalo.edu/. No ibuprofen for stroke patients Closing information also will be available on WBFO-FM By LOIS BAKER a second neurological visit after this interaction. Whatever number were taking aspirin plus Motrin [a Contributing Editor 88.7, at www.buffalo.edu discontinuing NSAID use and were of patients who have had strokes brand of ibuprofen]. and at MyUB.buffalo.edu. TROKE patients who use tested again, all had regained their because of the interaction between “The prescription medication ibuprofen for arthritis pain aspirin sensitivity and its ability aspirin and NSAIDs, those strokes Aggrenox, which also is used for or other conditions while to prevent blood platelets from were preventable.” secondary stroke prevention and WWW.BUFFALO.EDU/REPORTER taking aspirin to reduce aggregating and blocking arteries. Gengo is professor of neurol- contains aspirin and extended The Reporter is published Sthe risk of a second stroke under- The study is the fi rst to show ogy in the School of Medicine and release dipyridamole, is affected weekly in print and online mine aspirin’s ability to act as an the clinical consequences of the Biomedical Sciences and professor the same way as aspirin,” Gengo at http://www.buffalo. antiplatelet agent, UB researchers aspirin/NSAID interaction in pa- of pharmacy practice in the School continued. “In preventing strokes, edu/reporter. To receive have shown. tients being treated for prevention of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical it is statistically a little better than an email on Thursdays In a cohort of patients seen by of a second stroke, and presents a Sciences. Results of the study were aspirin, but more expensive. that a new issue of the physicians at two offices of the possible explanation of the mecha- published in the January issue of the “However, one of the most com- Reporter is available online, Dent Neurologic Institute, 28 nism of action. Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. mon side effects when you fi rst go to http://www.buf- patients were identifi ed as taking The Food and Drug Admin- “We fi rst looked at this issue way start taking Aggrenox is headache, falo.edu/reporter/sub- both aspirin and ibuprofen (a istration currently warns that back in 1992 in a study conducted so some physicians, pharmacists scribe/html, enter your nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory ibuprofen might make aspirin less in normal volunteers, but it was or physician assistants tell patients email address and name, drug, or NSAID) daily and all were effective, but states that the clini- published as an abstract only,” he to take a Motrin so they don’t get and click on “join the list.” found to have no antiplatelet effect cal implications of the interaction said. “We never followed through a headache. This likely would ne- KEY TO REPORTER ICONS from their daily aspirin. have not been evaluated. with a manuscript, but another gate the effects of the aspirin and Thirteen of these patients were “This interaction between aspi- group published an elegant study extended release dipyridamole. M more text at Web site being seen because they had a second rin and ibuprofen or prescription in the New England Journal of Those patients might as well take stroke/TIA while taking aspirin and NSAIDs is one of the best-known, Medicine showing this interaction this expensive drug and fl ush it L link on Web site an NSAID, and were platelet nonre- but well-kept secrets in stroke at least seven years ago. down the toilet.” sponsive to aspirin (aspirin resistant) medicine,” said Francis M. Gengo, “When we began to assess this Gengo and colleagues veri- more photos on Web P at the time of that stroke. lead researcher on the study. in our stroke patients, a surpris- fi ed with urine testing that all 18 The researchers found that when “It’s unfortunate that clinicians ingly high percentage of a group patients—six men and 12 wom- A additional link on Web 18 of the 28 patients returned for and patients often are unaware of of 653 patients, around 17 percent, Continued on Page 2 2 Reporter March 27, 2008/Vol. 39, No. 26 uestions NEWSMAKERS Suzanne M. Miller, associate professor of nswers Here is a sampling of recent learning and instruction, Graduate School of & media coverage in which UB is Education, is director of City Voices, City VisionsQ (CVCV), a joint mentioned prominently. partnership between GSE and the Buffalo Public Schools that pro- “It was quite typical in the ’90s A with the market going up. Lots vides professional development for classroom teachers on how to of plans were over-funded, and if use digital video composing as a learning tool in the classroom. L M they were going to try to down- size, they would fund buyout packages with their excess pen- You were a classroom English outside schools and to bring these creating videos on academic like Keith Hughes at McKinley sion packages. I am not aware of teacher. When did you realize “print-mixed” texts into the class- content as a learning tool that High School helped to develop the power of the digital video it happening that often among room.