Emeritus Professor Establishes Fellowship Grant Program in UB School of Architecture and Planning

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The UB School of Architecture and Planning has announced a new fellowship grant program established by Ibrahim Jammal, professor emeritus in the school's Department of Planning, and his wife, Viviane.

The Jammal Fellowship will provide $4,000 per year over the next 10 years to broaden the vision of, and opportunities for, the school's American students beyond their domestic knowledge, and of the school's foreign students beyond their concern for the specific cultures of their mother countries.

Ernest Sternberg, chair of the Department of Planning, says the grants will help the department fund research proposals, student research assistantships, scholarly visits, colloquia and conferences geared to graduate students. It also will provide for an annual Jammal Best Thesis Award. Sternberg says these activities will be related to issues of globalization, international studies and futures studies.

Jammal is the founder of the UB Department of Planning and served on its faculty for more than 30 years. Sternberg says the faculty and students "are thrilled at this sign of Professor Jammal's continuing commitment to, and involvement in, the program.

"As if all of his former students and advisees were not already a wonderful legacy," he adds, "this generous award will be a continuing reminder of his accomplishments as an educator and a scholar."

Jammal's teaching and research has focused on long-range planning, forecasting methods, international-development planning and complex problem solving. He is the former director of the UB Center for Comparative Studies in Development Planning, a consultant for USAID and UNICEF, chair of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Commission on Global Approaches to Planning Education and vice president of Buffalo's French Cultural Center.

He holds a master's degree in architecture and a master's degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in architecture from Cairo University, Egypt.

For information on how you can support the University at Buffalo, go to http://www.buffalo.edu/giving.