Photo: Nancy J. Parisi

Legal Forum Rep. Tom Reynolds (at podium) is joined by collegues Jack Quinn and John LaFalce during a discussion of church-state and civil-liberties issues at a forum held Sunday in the Center for Tomorrow. Ilene Fleischmann (at table), associate dean in the UB Law School, served as moderator.

Alexandridis receives Sigma Xi award
Chemical engineering professsor recognized as prestigious "Young Investigator"

A faculty member in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who uses molecules and particles as "LEGOs" to develop advanced materials at the nano-scale that end up in products ranging from paints to contact lenses has been chosen to receive the prestigious 2002 Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award.

Retention of minority faculty urged

The university not only needs to hire more minority faculty members, it needs to figure out how to keep them once they're here, the co-chairs of the Faculty Senate Affirmative Action Committee told the senate's executive committee at its Feb. 27 meeting.