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Four UB nursing faculty members were honored recently by the March of Dimes at its second annual Nurse of the Year Awards Gala. Recognized were Deborah Finnell, associate professor, behavioral health; Mary Carey, associate professor, education/research/nurse author; Pamela Paplham, clinical assistant professor, home care, hospice, palliative care, oncology; and Sharon Hewner, assistant professor, performance management/quality and improvement.

Forty-four members of University Life and Services recently were recognized for longtime service to UB at a luncheon held in the Center for Tomorrow.

Honored for 10 years’ service were Susan Bagdasarian, Employee Assistance Program; Blaine W. Boeckel, Campus Dining & Shops; John J. Brady, Campus Dining & Shops; Joseph I. Brown, Campus Dining & Shops; Alka Chatrath, Student Health Services; Scott G. Cleveland, Campus Living; Mary E. Gallivan, Campus Living; Diane Gangloff, Campus Dining & Shops; Elizabeth Glose, Campus Dining & Shops; Carol Herberger, Campus Living; Maryann Hosking, Campus Dining & Shops; Amy A. Huddleston, Campus Dining & Shops; Lauren Johnson, Career Services; Michael J. Koziej, Campus Living; Christina L. Krywalski, Campus Dining & Shops; Stephen J. Macek, Campus Living; Joyce M. Mann, Campus Living; Sharon Nolan-Weiss, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion; Charles E. Orcutt, Campus Dining & Shops; Eugene Sanders, Campus Dining & Shops; Susan N. Steck, Organizational Development & Training; Joshua B. Sticht, University Police; Mary Stock, Student Health Services; Shannon Stork-Patterson, Campus Living; Cynthia L. Theurer, Campus Living; Judith L. Walgate, Campus Living; Kevin A. Will, University Police; Lorrie A. Wood, Campus Dining & Shops; Daniel Zilbauer Jr., Campus Dining & Shops; and Brendon J. Zubek, University Police.

Recognized for 20 years’ service were Lori A. Chiarelli, Resource & Support Services; Wayne J. Colton, University Police; Lois Cultrara, Campus Dining & Shops; Glenn E. Prenatt, Campus Living; Toby R. Shapiro, New Student Programs; Dexter K. Shongo, Campus Living; Marian E. Tetreault, Campus Living; Maria Wallace, Parking & Transportation Services; and Sara L. Wishman, University Police.

Honored for 30 years’ service were David P. Ballard, Student Life; Rebecca A. Bernstein, University Communications; Steven J. Cleary, Campus Dining & Shops; Thomas E. Heberling, Campus Living; and Michael L. Mislin, Campus Living.

Tracy Gregg, associate professor of geology, has been elected as a Fellow of the Geology Society of America (GSA), an honor recognized at the society’s annual fall meeting last week in Charlotte.

GSA Fellows are selected in recognition of distinguished contributions to the geosciences. Gregg, a volcanologist, studies volcanoes and lava flows on Earth, Mars, Venus and Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. She has expertise in interpreting geologic formations throughout the solar system for clues about how landscapes are formed.

At the GSA meeting, Gregg presented the results of research into lunar sinuous rilles. She also viewed a preprint of her new book, “Modeling Volcanic Processes: The Physics and Mathematics of Volcanism,” which she edited with Sarah Fagents of the University of Hawaii and Rosaly Lopes of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The book is an advanced-level text that targets graduate students, providing an analysis of the physics of volcanic behavior and examining models used to explain volcanic processes. Research in these areas is critical to assessing and mitigating the danger that eruptions pose to people who live near volcanoes.

“Modeling Volcanic Processes,” published by Cambridge University Press, will be available in February.

Department of Visual Studies faculty members Millie Chen, professor, and Steve Kurtz, professor and chair, lectured earlier this week at the Academy of Art & Design at Tsinghua University, Beijing, as part of the university’s Academic Month activities. Chen and Kurtz were among more than a dozen international artists and scholars who addressed the topic of “Local and Global: What is Contemporary Art.”