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A group of western New York high school students toured the Gates Vascular Institute in Buffalo to learn about medical science.

“They’re putting a tube up the vein to get rid of leakage in the brain. It looks cool,” said Nicholas Altemoos, a 9th grader at Bennett High School.

Twenty freshman and sophomore students watched a recorded medical procedure on the human eye during their tour of Gates Vascular Institute, University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Translational Research Center and the Jacob’s Institute.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was at Old Fort Niagara near Niagara Falls on Monday to announce that the federal government is working to draw more visitors the Buffalo/Niagara region. 

Gillibrand, a Democrat, says a new campaign by Brand USA is expected to promote the Greater Niagara Region as an international destination.

Researchers from the University at Buffalo conducted the state's first large-scale earthquake simulation on Tuesday to determine how prone unreinforced masonry walls are to quake damage.

The test took place at UB’s Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) where two 14-foot-tall walls, made to replicate turn-of-the-20th-century row houses stood parallel to one another during several tests.

The left wall was built with 100 year old brick and mortar similar to “brownstones” found in New York City. The right wall was built stronger and retrofitted using techniques typical on the West Coast, where there's more seismic activity.