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By SUE WUETCHER

Published: March 3, 2011

Five UB graduate students will be presenting three research and academic posters at a SUNY graduate student symposium and exhibition being held next week in Albany.

The event, titled “Research That Matters: An Exposition of Graduate Research in SUNY and CUNY,” is sponsored by the SUNY-wide University Faculty Senate. It will be held on March 8 in the Legislative Office Building in Albany, with key state legislators, as well as SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and other SUNY senior administrators, expected to attend. 

“The opportunity for a representative sample of UB’s graduate students to present their research directly to New York state legislators and senior SUNY officials is very meaningful,” notes Myron A. “Mick” Thompson, associate provost and executive director of the Graduate School, which is coordinating UB’s participation at the event. “The exposition will showcase the broad scope of our institution’s research endeavors, convey the potential impact of that research on the lives of citizens of New York and beyond, and demonstrate the exceptional quality of our graduate student population.

“The event also provides a forum within which our graduate students can personally convey the importance of their educational experience at UB to key individuals who contribute support for the environment within which their scholarship, research and creative activity occurs,” Thompson says.

Representing UB at the exposition will be:

• Pharmacy graduate students Lubna Abuqayyas and Yang Chen, whose presentation/poster is titled “Pharmacokinetic Strategies to Improve Drug Penetration into Solid Tumors.” Their faculty supervisor is Joseph Balthasar, professor and director of the Center for Protein Therapeutics, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
• Engineering graduate student Shannon Seneca. Seneca will present “Evaluation of Zeolite Permeable Treatment Wall for the Removal of Strontium-90 from Groundwater at the West Valley Demonstration Project.” Her faculty supervisor is Alan Rabideau, professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
• Neuroscience graduate students Henry Lin (MD/PhD candidate) and Katelyn Carr, whose presentation/poster is titled ;“Food Reinforcement and Obesity: Psychological Moderators.” Their faculty supervisor is Leonard Epstein, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the departments of Pediatrics, Social and Preventive Medicine and Psychology, and chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.