Next Reporter is July 22
The next summer issue of the Reporter will be published July 22. The publication of weekly issues for the fall semester will begin Aug. 26. Away from campus this summer? Stay in touch by reading the Reporter on the World Wide Web at http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter.

Medical school honors two faculty members
Two faculty members in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were honored recently at the medical school's annual faculty meeting.

Bruce A. Holm, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, and gynecology-obstetrics, and associate dean for research and graduate studies, received the George Thorn Young Investigator Award recognizing an outstanding young scientist in the medical school. Holm, whose research has attracted millions of dollars in grant awards to UB, won the award for his research on lung surfactant and oxygen toxicity affecting alveolar cells.

Maurizio Trevisan, professor and chair of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, received the 1999 Stockton Kimball Award, honoring a faculty member for academic accomplishment and worldwide recognition as an investigator and researcher. Trevisan is known internationally for his research into cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Johnstones receive Red Jacket Award
D. Bruce Johnstone, University Professor in the Graduate School of Education and former SUNY chancellor, and his wife, Gail E. Johnstone, received the Red Jacket Award of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society June 15. The award salutes contributions to civic progress.

Johnstone, a professor of higher and comparative education at UB, also directs the Learning Productivity Network and is a director of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Mrs. Johnstone, executive director of the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo, serves on the board of trustees for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and chairs the Planning Task Force for the UB Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth's State of the Region Project.

Soong receives Norman Medal
Tsu-Teh Soong, Samuel Capen Professor of Engineering Science in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, has been named a recipient of the 1999 Norman Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Soong was chosen to receive the distinguished medal in recognition of his paper, "Structural Control: Past, Present, Future," which appeared in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics in 1997. The medal is awarded to an "author or co-author of a paper which shall be judged worthy of special commendation for its merit as a contribution to engineering science." He will receive the award at the ASCE's annual convention in October.

Soong, a leading researcher in engineering structural dynamics, reliability and control, was a co-principal investigator of the National Science Foundation grants that established UB's National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research in 1986 and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research in 1997.

Craft center sets summer workshops
The Creative Craft Center, 120 Fillmore, Ellicott Complex, will offer summer workshops, beginning the week of July 12. Workshops are scheduled in basic and intermediate pottery, advanced ceramics, nature photography, night photography, basic and advanced color photography, Western New York photography, aerial photography, knitting and crocheting, weaving, quilting, textile design and Brazilian embroidery. Workshops will run from 7-10 p.m. one night a week for six weeks. Fees are $30, UB students; $60, others.

Classes in pottery for children ages 6-10 will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. The fee for six weeks of classes is $50.

Creative Kids workshop for children ages 6-10 will be offered from 9:30 a.m. to noon during three separate sessions, July 19-23, Aug. 2-6 and Aug. 9-13. The fee is $60 for a one-week session. For more information, call 645-2434.

UB teams receive multidisciplinary research grants
Fifteen faculty teams at UB with excellent ideas for original, multidisciplinary research have been awarded grants totaling nearly $300,000 by the university. The grants, ranging from $16,750 to $20,000, are part of a UB program, now in its fifth year, designed to provide seed funding for multidisciplinary pilot projects in order to improve their chances of attracting external support.

Applications were evaluated by expert reviewers at other institutions around the world who had no personal or financial ties to the applicants. Proposals with the highest ratings were funded.

Research projects had to be in an area central to UB's graduate-education, research and public-service goals. Special consideration was given to proposals that crossed traditional boundaries of distinctly different disciplines.

The funded projects and their lead investigators are:

- Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Quantitative Measurement of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Fractured Rocks, Matthew W. Becker, assistant professor of geology
- Type 2 Diabetes and Non-Invasive Measures of Coronary Heart Disease, Richard P. Donahue, professor of social and preventive medicine
- Function of Polymorphisms in Human CYP1A1, 1A2 and 1B1, Adam T. Drahushuk, research assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology
- Controlled Release of Antimicrobial Proteins from Oral Based Sol-Gel Silica Glass Monoliths, Mira Edgerton, clinical assistant professor of restorative dentistry
- The Public Casting of Cities, Frank Fantauzzi, assistant professor of architecture
- Short-Chain Dehydrogenases and Metabolism of Androgens and Retinoids in the Prostate, Samuel Gallant, associate professor of pathology
- Hepatitis C Virus Infections in Egypt, John Hay, G.T. Fisher Chair and professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology
- Theoretical Models of Hydrogen-Bonded Liquids, Harry King, professor of chemistry
- Virtual Analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Complex, Jean LaMarche, assistant professor of architecture
- Effects of Alkylating Minor Groove Binders on DNA Replication, Thomas Melendy, assistant professor of microbiology
- Photonics Crystals: A New Frontier in Photonics Materials, Paras Prasad, Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry
- Molecular Markers of Drug Action, Robert M. Straubinger, associate professor of pharmaceutics
- NMR and X-ray Crystallography: Synergy and Difference in Gramicidin Structure Determinations, Thomas Szyperski, associate professor of chemistry
- Noise-Induced Expression of Inner Ear Genes, R. Thomas Taggart, research associate professor of communicative disorders and sciences
- Development of a Transgenic Model for Parkinson's Disease, German Torres, assistant professor of psychology.

Medical rehabilitation conference set for July
A conference on interpreting and understanding the results of medical rehabilitation and its cost effectiveness will be held July 17-18 in the Sheraton Inn Buffalo Airport, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga.

The conference is sponsored by the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Featured speakers will include rehabilitation-medicine specialists from centers across the U.S. and from the UB Center for Functional Assessment Research and its affiliate, the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSmr), which are international leaders in the field.

The registration fee for the two-day conference, aimed at rehabilitation professionals and physiatrists, is $425.

Carl V. Granger, director of the Center for Functional Assessment Research and UDSmr, will chair the conference and be a featured speaker. Among those also making presentations will be:

n Helena Valvanne-Tommila, senior advisor, Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities, Helsinki, Finland

n Margaret G. Stineman, associate professor of rehabilitation medicine, University of Pennsylvania

n Reg L. Warren, vice president of outcomes research, Nova Care, Inc., of Hingham, Maine.

UB presenters, in addition to Granger, will include Richard Linn, assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine; Deborah K. Walters, associate professor of computer science; James Philips, CEO of UDSmr; Richard K. Orhrbach, assistant professor of oral diagnostic sciences; Anne Deutsch, research analyst for UDSmr, and Samuel J. Markello, director of analytical services and outcomes assessment, UDSmr.

For more information on the conference, call the Center for Functional Assessment Research at 829-2076.

Shulman receives Richard Lodge Prize
Lawrence Shulman, dean of the School of Social Work, has been named the 1999 recipient of the Richard Lodge Prize from Adelphi University's School of Social Work. The prize was given in recognition of Shulman's contributions to research on practice theory. A social-work-practice educator for 32 years, Shulman has done extensive research on the core helping skills in social-work practice, supervision and child welfare.

He is the author of 16 books and monographs, and more than 20 articles and book chapters. The fourth edition of his textbook, "The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups and Communities," recently was selected to educate the first generation of social workers in China at Beijing's College of Social Work.

Radford receives NEH, ACLS fellowships
Gail E. Radford, assistant professor in the Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

ACLS funds humanities research, with its grants designed to permit distinguished scholars to devote a full year to research and writing. Radford is on leave for the calendar year 1999 and will use the grants to pursue research on a new book, "The Invention of Invisible Government: State Action Through Public Corporations and Authorities."

A faculty member at UB since 1993, Radford teaches 20th-century U.S. history.

Romanowski awarded Department of Energy fellowship
Carol Romanowski, a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Industrial Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received the Integrated Manufacturing and Processing Pre-doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy. Only 12 fellowships are awarded each year in a national competition sponsored by the Department of Energy and administered by the National Research Council.

The fellowship, a three-year award with an annual $20,000 stipend, also provides up to $15,000 annually for tuition and fees. The program seeks to create a pool of doctorally trained experts in the integrated approach to manufacturing and processing.

Art department to offer summer workshops
The Student Visual Art Organization (SVAO) and the Experimental Print Imaging Center (ePIC) will hold workshops this summer on figure drawing and printmaking techniques. The SVAO will sponsor figure-drawing sessions for beginners, students and professional artists from 3:30-6 p.m. every Tuesday and from 7-10 p.m. every Thursday, through Aug. 19 in Studio 218 in the Center for the Arts. Each session is $5.

ePIC also will hold a workshop on toray silicone intaglio printing from July 19-23. The workshop will run from 3-6:30 p.m. and is $70 for students and printshop members and $110 for the public. It will be held in the printmaking labs on the ground floor of the Center for the Arts. For more information, call Jeff Sherven at 645-6878, ext. 1369.

"UB Today" show to air programs, exhibits
UB's new supercomputing center and a compelling photo exhibit will be among the items spotlighted in July on Adelphia Cable's "UB Today." The show, rebroadcast throughout the month, airs at 6:30 p.m. Sundays on Adelphia Channels 18, 21 and 10, and at 9 p.m. Mondays on Channel 18. Featured will be:

- Al Harris, gallery director, Center for the Arts, who will discuss the exhibit "Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry."

- Russ Miller, professor of computer science and engineering and director of the Center for Computational Research, who will talk about UB's new supercomputing center.

- William C. Mann, chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy and director of the Center for Assistive Technology, who will show devices that have been developed for people with disabilities.

- Linda Schultz Rothberg, coordinator of clinical pharmacy programs for Tops Markets and clinical assistant professor in the School of Pharmacy, who will discuss an innovative program of community pharmacies operated jointly by Tops and the School of Pharmacy.

Symposium honors Ruckenstein
A Chemical Engineering Symposium in honor of Eli Ruckenstein, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, was held June 18-19 in the Center for the Arts. Sponsored by UB, the Department of Chemical Engineering and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the symposium recognized Ruckenstein's career, contributions and achievements on the occasion of his receiving the 1998 National Medal of Science. Ruckenstein received the award last month during a White House ceremony hosted by President Clinton.

Symposium speakers were John L. Anderson, professor and dean of Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University; Howard Brenner, Willard H. Dow Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; E. James Davis, professor of chemical engineering, University of Washington; Pablo G. Debenedetti, Class of 1950, Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University; Morton M. Denn, professor and past chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

Also, Dennis C. Prieve, Gulf Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University; W. Harmon Ray, Vilas Research Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Stanley I. Sandler, Henry Belin duPont Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware; Ashutosh Sharma, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and Ralph T. Yang, professor and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, and former chair of the UB Department of Chemical Engineering.

EMBA program graduates 19
Nineteen business people have graduated from the Executive MBA (EMBA) program in the School of Management. The graduates completed an intensive 22-month curriculum designed for highly experienced managers who wish to develop expertise in complex management skills. The UB EMBA program is one of 150 accredited programs worldwide and is the only one in Western New York. More than 125 Western New York executives have graduated from the program since its establishment in 1994.

The graduates are Karen Adams, vice president and collateral examination manager, HSBC; Timothy Balkin, director of financial planning and analysis, Moog; Joseph Bell, product-line manager, Moog; James Busser, regional account manager, Conrail; Michael Casseri, district manager, W.W. Grainger; Mary Ann Deb, associate professor of nursing, Trocaire College; Mark Hall, reliability engineer, Dow Corning; Sally Haughey, controller, Bechtel Bettis; Vaseem Iqbal, pediatric radiologist, Medical Partners of WNY, and Kathy Kubiak, program manager, ACTS Testing Labs.

Also, Michael Ratajczak, technology center director, Moog; Dolores Rugg, vice president for human resources, Elderwood Affiliates; Ravi Rungta, staff engineer, Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems; Douglas Scheid, principal, Scheid Architectural; William Senif, director of sales and marketing, Reid Petroleum Corp.; Donald Seitz, senior financial analyst, Moog; Zsuzsanna Snow, audit project leader, Xerox Corp.; Christopher Tzetzo, director of marketing, Tzetzo Bros., and Melissa Wikman, manager of account marketing, Fisher-Price.

For more information about the Executive MBA program, call 645-3200 or visit the School of Management Web site at http://www.mgt.buffalo.edu.