Alumni Life
Party of Twelve*
The 2017 UBAA Achievement Awards gave well-deserved recognition to a globe-trotting group of UB-affiliated notables. At Buffalo was at the ceremony to applaud them—and get their restaurant recommendations.
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TOP ROW: Dean Seneca (Pricci in Atlanta, Ga.); Wayne Anderson (Bern’s Steak House in Tampa, Fla.); Michael Garz (Will BYOB in Philadelphia, Pa.); Hratch Kouyoumdjian (Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif.); Joel Lunenfeld (The French Laundry in Napa Valley, Calif.); Edward Dong (Legal Sea Foods in Boston, Mass.); James Smist (Piazza Duomo in Alba, Italy); Robert Genco (Siena in Snyder, N.Y.)
BOTTOM ROW: L. Nelson Hopkins (San Marco in Snyder, N.Y.); Juanita Hunter (Betty’s in Buffalo, N.Y.); Ram Kumar Krishnamurthy (Din Tai Fung in Taipei, Taiwan)
UBAA Achievement Awards Recipients:
Samuel P. Capen Award
James Smist (BS ’80), president and co-founder of management consulting firm Dean & Company
Philip B. Wels Outstanding Service Award
Wayne Anderson, dean emeritus of the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Richard T. Sarkin Award for Excellence in Teaching
Robert Genco (DDS ’63), SUNY Distinguished Professor and director of the UB Microbiome Center
Clifford C. Furnas Memorial Award
Hratch Kouyoumdjian (MS ’70), founder and former president and CEO of the KPA Group, an engineering and architectural consulting practice
Community Leadership Award
Juanita Hunter (EdD ’83, MS ’74, BS ’71), retired UB community health educator and active volunteer
Walter P. Cooke Award
L. Nelson Hopkins, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery, founder of the Global Vascular Institute at Kaleida Health, the Jacobs Institute, and the Toshiba Stroke and Vascular Research Center
International Distinguished Alumni Award
Holger Schünemann (PhD ’00, MS ’97), chair of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact at McMaster University; research professor in the UB Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
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George W. Thorn Award
Joel Lunenfeld (BA ’99), vice president of global brand and creative strategy at Twitter
Distinguished Alumni Awards
Edward Dong (MBA ’91), founding chair of the U.S.-China committee of the International Leadership Foundation based in Washington, D.C.
Michael Garz (BA ’72), senior vice president at the design firm STV; design manager and project architect for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub
Ram Kumar Krishnamurthy (MS ’95), senior principal engineer at Intel
Dean Seneca (BA ’90), senior health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, president of the CDC’s American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Coalition