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UB Senior Named to USA Today All-USA College Academic First Team

Aaron Krolikowski of Glenwood, N.Y., a senior at the University at Buffalo with an outstanding record of academic and environmental achievement, has been named to the USA Today All-USA College Academic Team First Team, an award honoring students for their outstanding accomplishments as undergraduates.

USA Today announced its annual list of academic stars in today’s edition.

Krolikowski is one of 20 students nationwide chosen for the first team, a selection based on grades, academic rigor, leadership, activities and, most important, according to USA Today, an essay written by the nominee describing his or her most outstanding intellectual endeavor as a college undergraduate. Krolikowski wrote about his efforts to establish a village irrigation program in northwest Tanzania, part of a project he did for the UB Honors College. Read more.

Posted April 29, 2009 in Uncategorized

University Breaks Ground on New Engineering Building

The University at Buffalo recently broke ground on a new $61 million state-of-the-art classroom and laboratory building for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences on the North Campus. Designed by renowned architects Perkins + Will, the 130,000-square-foot structure will be home to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering, and will increase UB Engineering’s facility space by nearly one-third, accommodating significant new growth in the engineering school’s student enrollment, faculty hires and research expenditures. The building is expected to be completed in 2011. Its construction is a major project for “Building UB,” the university’s comprehensive physical plan—a key component of UB 2020. Read more.

Posted April 27, 2009 in Uncategorized

UB Asian Studies Faculty Members Win National Book Awards

Two members of the University at Buffalo faculty affiliated with the university’s Asian Studies Program have received national awards for work in their fields. Ramya Sreenivasan, assistant professor of history in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for “The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in Indian History, c. 1500-1900.”

Yoshiko Nozaki, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy in the Graduate School of Education, has received an Outstanding Book of the Year Award from the American Educational Research Association Division B (Curriculum Studies) for her recently published “War Memory, Nationalism, and Education in Postwar Japan, 1945-2007: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo’s Court Challenges.” Read more.

Posted April 10, 2009 in Uncategorized

Nobel Prize Winner and Hepatitis B Virus Discoverer to Lecture at UB

Baruch S. Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D., winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the hepatitis B virus (HBV), will present a talk on “The Adventure of Science and Discovery,” April 16 at 5 p.m. in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall on the University at Buffalo’s South (Main Street) Campus.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Blumberg has had a major impact on worldwide public health throughout his career. He and his colleagues were responsible for developing the HBV vaccine, which has decreased HBV infection dramatically along with the incidence of liver cancer that can be caused by HBV. To find out more, follow this link.

Posted April 9, 2009 in Uncategorized

Emily Dickinson’s 1,789 Poems Will Star at UB Poetry Month Marathon Reading

It may take 13 or 14 hours and some readers will be more experienced than others, but for those who would bask in the glow of every poem ever written by 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, April 11 is the day to pack a lunch, grab a pillow and waltz on down to the Karpeles Manuscript Museum.

That day, in honor of National Poetry Month, the University at Buffalo Department of English will sponsor a free, public marathon community reading of all 1,789 of Dickinson’s poems from 8 a.m. to about 9:30 p.m. at the museum, 453 Porter Ave., Buffalo.

Anyone who wishes is welcome to listen or read aloud some of the most arresting verse in the English language. There is no formal schedule of readers and no preregistration is required, but three Buffalo celebrities will kick off the readings that morning: New York State Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, actress Josephine Hogan of the Irish Classical Theatre and UB President John B. Simpson. To find out more, follow this link.

Posted April 2, 2009 in Uncategorized