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@UB, March 2006
Next month, the UB Alumni Association will present its Achievement Awards (formerly the Celebration of Excellence) to eight UB alumni who were selected for excelling in their profession, for service to UB and their communities and for representing the best that our university has to offer. We are honored to be associated with these individuals, and invite you to take part in the festivities. The Alumni Association Achievement Awards will be held Friday, April 28 at the Adams Mark in Buffalo. Learn more about the recipients and the event, and how to purchase your tickets: Michael L. Jankowski, Interim Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations UNIVERSITY NEWS
TACKLING OBESITY: With $5 million in funding from BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, the School of Public Health and Health Professions has launched a five-year research and treatment program for the severely obese that will study the effects of weight-loss alternatives to gastric bypass surgery.
DOD FUNDS CENTER: A new U.S. Department of Defense-funded center based at Calspan UB Research Center and the University at Buffalo will provide the U.S. armed forces with critical technologies to enhance major national security initiatives, such as aiding the hunt for weapons of mass destruction and providing accurate intelligence information to support operations and decision-making.
"GREEN" MACHINES: The University at Buffalo is leading the way in energy savings as the first university in the country to completely replace its campus-wide beverage vending machines with green technology, saving $21,000 a year on electricity costs. UB PEOPLE
NANOELECTRONICS ROADBLOCKS: University at Buffalo engineers are working to solve two significant roadblocks impeding the creation of smaller, faster and more powerful electronic devices.
HENDERSON RECEIVES AWARD: Donald Henderson, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, received the 2006 Outstanding Hearing Conservation Award from the National Hearing Conservation Association.
PSYCHOLOGICALLY INTRIGUING: Charles Patrick Ewing, UB law professor, and alumnus Joseph T. McCann, JD '94, chronicled the 20 most psychologically intriguing legal cases of the past 50 years in a new book they coauthored.
SOCIAL WORK RESEARCHER: Robert Keefe, new associate professor in the School of Social Work, specializes in assessing disparities in health and access to health care. BREAKING RESEARCH
FIGHTING CYBERCRIME: Biometrics researchers at UB have made important advances that bring closer the day when you can access devices and Web sites with nothing more than the touch of a fingertip to confirm your identity.
NAPLES IN DANGER: New geological and archaeological evidence raises the specter that a future eruption of Italy's Mt. Vesuvius could have the same devastating effect on the City of Naples as the ancient eruption that buried Pompeii, according to a UB volcanologist.
EARLY WARNING: UB researchers have identified two components of saliva that may serve as the basis for new tests to determine risk for future loss of the bone that holds teeth in place as the result of periodontal disease. HEARD ON CAMPUS "I'm very pleased that it turned out this way, but I think honestly we hired in terms of excellence, not in terms of who happens to be an African-American. It's an embarrassment for the country that we're the only Division I school that has this particular constellation. Statistically, that shouldn't be the case, certainly in terms of the talent pool." --UB President John B. Simpson, in a February 28 article on the front page of the sports section of USA Today that reported that UB is making sports history as the only Division I-A school with African-Americans in the three most visible posts in its athletics department. Read the USA Today article: http://alumni.buffalo.edu/php/nl.php?d=0306&id=12 IN MY OPINIONIn March, wearing green is common, but UB is "going green," leading the way in energy savings as the first university in the country to completely replace its campus-wide beverage vending machines with green technology. Click on http://alumni.buffalo.edu/php/nl.php?d=0306&id=13 and, considering the high cost of gasoline, home heating, and other utilities, tell us your conservation secrets. Please include your name and graduation year.
To see how your fellow alumni treated their "spring fever," (last month's "In My Opinion" question), go here: HOT LINKS
Elemental House: A project by first-year undergraduate architecture students to design models using spatial structures that are based on the human body will be on view in the UB Anderson Gallery until April 2:
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Joe Satriani at CFA April 10: Master guitarist Joe Satriani and very special guest Eric Johnson will perform at 8 p.m. April 10 at the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. About @UBThe Division of External Affairs publishes @UB monthly. We thank you for your continued interest in and support of the University at Buffalo and the UB Alumni Association. If you have any comments on an issue, please send them to Barbara Byers, associate director, alumni relations at ub-alumni-news@buffalo.edu. UB alumni: Update your online profile, search for your UB friends, submit a class note, sign up for a permanent UB e-mail address, and more, when you register on UB Connect, a secure online community. Wonder what other readers think about @UB? View comments on prior issues. Supporting UB is easy. Donate Online. If you can't wait and want your news weekly, subscribe to UB News Direct. Are you a member of the UB Alumni Association? If not, learn more and join today! Your privacy is very important to us. View the official UB Alumni Relations privacy policy. |
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