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UB Engineering Students Named Udall, Goldwater Scholars

Two University at Buffalo engineering students have been selected to receive prestigious national scholarships. Christopher Llop, a junior double major in electrical and industrial engineering, was named a 2009 Morris K. Udall Scholar, while Claire Lochner, a sophomore electrical engineering major, has been named a 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar.

Llop was selected as a Udall Scholar on the basis of his commitment to a career in the environment, his leadership potential and academic achievement. He is the fourth student in the past four years from UB to be awarded the Udall scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship is awarded to sophomores and juniors who have outstanding potential and intend to pursue advanced degrees in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. Lochner is one of 320 scholars chosen from 1,097 candidates from across the United States.

In addition, Anny Caceres, a junior at UB pursuing a degree in pharmacology and toxicology, was recognized by the Goldwater Foundation with an honorable mention, while Emily Bauer, a junior pursuing a biological sciences degree with an environmental design minor, was a finalist for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship. Read more.

Posted May 4, 2009 in Uncategorized

UB’s Renowned James Joyce Collection to Mount Major Exhibit in June

On June 13, the most extensive exhibition of material from the world’s premier James Joyce Collection will open in Buffalo, N.Y., as part of the 21st International James Joyce Symposium.

“Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection,” will feature a vast number of personal and literary artifacts related to the 20th century’s most influential and intensely scrutinized writer.

The exhibit will remain in the university’s Anderson Gallery, One Martha Jackson Place, off Englewood Avenue, until Sept. 13 when it will travel to the University of Oklahoma at Tulsa and to other venues throughout the United States. Read more.

Posted May 1, 2009 in Uncategorized

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

Scholarship program aims to keep UB grads in Western New York

The Prentice Family Foundation has created the Western New York Prosperity Scholarship Program to help UB students graduate and establish their careers in the eight-county region. These scholarships will enable qualified juniors, seniors and graduate students in the UB schools of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Management to become better acquainted with career possibilities in the region’s businesses and industries. More than 20 scholarships are expected to be granted, each with a maximum award of $25,000. The scholarships will cover students’ unmet costs to attend UB during the academic year and fund summer internships at leading companies and industries throughout the region. For more details, click here.

Posted March 26, 2009 in Uncategorized

UB Architecture Professor Elected to AIA College of Fellows

Dennis A. Andrejko, associate professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and an expert on energy-conscious architecture, has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

The honor is one granted by the institute for contributions of national significance to the profession. Andrejko is one of only 112 architects elected to the college this year from across the United States, one of 10 from New York State and the only one from Western New York. Read more.

Posted March 20, 2009 in Uncategorized

NEH Grant to UB Poetry Collection Will Save Important Poetry Recordings

The Poetry Collection of the University at Buffalo Libraries has received a grant from the Preservation and Access Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities to reformat, catalog and make accessible 1,340 cassette and reel-to-reel audio recordings of significant poetry materials held in the collection. Read more.

Posted March 12, 2009 in Uncategorized