Our Colleagues
Honorees
President John B. Simpson, Provost Satish K. Tripathi and Jorge José, vice president for research, hosted a reception on Sept. 23 designed to recognize and honor faculty who have brought important distinction to UB during the past two years.
The reception recognized faculty members holding the highest totals among UB faculty in extramural grant funding, recently appointed SUNY Distinguished Professors, members of the National Academies and faculty who recently were awarded special distinguished nomination awards or junior career awards.
The honorees and their departments are:
Alex Anas, Economics
Anthony Auerbach, Physiology and Biophysics
Jochen Autschbach, Chemistry
Joseph Balthasar, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Stephen Bauer, Rehabilitation Sciences
Michel Bruneau, Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Anthony Campagnari, Microbiology and Immunology
James Campbell, Political Science
John Canty Jr., Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Alexander Cartwright, Electrical Engineering
John Cerne, Physics
Vipin Chaudhary, Computer Science and Engineering
Douglas Clements, Learning and Instruction
Craig Colder, Psychology
James Collins, Learning and Instruction
Terry Connell, Microbiology and Immunology
Gerard Connors, Research Institute on Addictions
Tony Conrad, Media Study
Murat Demirbas, Computer Science and Engineering
Kurt Dermen, Research Institute on Addictions
Paul Desjardin, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Matthew Disney, Chemistry
Joan Dorn, Social and Preventive Medicine
Colin Drury, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Matthew Dryer, Linguistics
Isaac Ehrlich, Finance and Managerial Economics
Rina Eiden, Research Institute on Addictions
Sarah Elder, Media Study
Leonard Epstein, Pediatrics, Psychology and Social and Preventive Medicine
Jeffrey Errington, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Gregory Fabiano, Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
James Fallavollita, Medicine
Denise Ferkey-Ellison, Biological Sciences
Charles Frake, Anthropology
Jo Freudenheim, Social and Preventive Medicine
Michael Frone, Research Institute on Addictions
Joseph Gardella Jr., Chemistry
Rodolphe Gasche, Comparative Literature
Robert Genco, Oral Biology
Venugopal Govindaraju, Computer Science and Engineering and Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors
Donald Henderson, Communicative Disorders and Sciences and Center for Hearing and Deafness
Donald Hickey, Physiology and Biophysics
Kenneth Hoffmann, Neurosurgery
Bruce Holm, Gynecology and Obstetrics and Pharmacology and New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences at UB
Susan Zonglu Hua, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
William Jusko, Pharmaceutical Sciences
David Kofke, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Daniel Kosman, Biochemistry
Venkat Krovi, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Howard Lasker, Geology
George Lee, Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Kenneth Leonard, Research Institute on Addictions
Claes Lundgren, Physiology and Biophysics and Center for Research and Education in Special Environments
David Mark, Geography and National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
Andrea Markelz, Physics
Willard McCall Jr., Oral Diagnostic Sciences
Mary Ann Meeker, School of Nursing
Russ Miller, Computer Science and Engineering
Vladimir Mitin, Department of Electrical Engineering
Gilbert Mosqueda, Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Timothy Murphy, Medicine and Microbiology
Makau Mutua, Law School
George Nancollas, Chemistry
Sriram Neelamegham, Chemical and Biological Engineering and Center for Bioengineering
Hung Ngo, Computer Science and Engineering
Richard Ohrbach, Oral Diagnostic Sciences
James Olson, Pharmacology and Toxicology and Toxicology Research Center
William Pelham Jr., Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Center for Children and Families
David Pendergast, Physiology and Biophysics and Center for Research and Education in Special Environments
Brian Pierchala, Biological Sciences
E. Bruce Pitman, Mathematics
Gabriela Popescu, Biochemistry
Paras Prasad, Chemistry
Feng Qin, Physiology and Biophysics
Teresa Quattrin, Pediatrics
Thomas Ralabate, Theatre and Dance
Laurie Read, Microbiology and Immunology
John Richard, Chemistry
James Roemmich, Pediatrics
Eli Ruckenstein, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Stephen Rudin, Radiology and Toshiba Stroke Research Center
Michael Russell, Microbiology and Immunology
Frederick Sachs, Physiology and Biophysics
Richard Salvi, Communicative Disorders and Sciences and Center for Hearing and Deafness
Frank Scannapieco, Oral Biology
Lee Ann Sinha, Biochemistry
Saatrajit Sinha, Biochemistry
Malcolm Slaughter, Physiology and Biophysics
Sargur Srihari, Computer Science and Engineering
Paul Stasiewicz, Research Institute on Addictions
Edward Steinfeld, School of Architecture
John Stone, Rehabilitation Sciences
Andrew Stott, English
Gottfried Strasser, Electrical Engineering
Robert Straubinger, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Esther Takeuchi, Chemical and Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Christina Tsai, Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Brian Tsuji, Pharmacy
John Violanti, Social and Preventive Medicine
Doreen Wackeroth, Physics
Jean Wactawski-Wende, Social and Preventive Medicine
Robert Wagmiller, Sociology
Kimberly Walitzer, Research Institute on Addictions
David Watson, Chemistry
Lois Weis, Educational Leadership and Policy
Jinhu Xu, Computer Science and Engineering
Zhen Yan, Physiology and Biophysics
Hao Zeng, Physics
Aidong Zhang, Computer Science and Engineering
Igor Zutic, Physics
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