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Chester C. Langway Jr., professor emeritus of geology and a UB faculty member for nearly 20 years, has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Langway is credited with launching the era of deep ice core-drilling programs at both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. He conducted extensive field and laboratory research programs in collaboration with international teams of scientists. These studies have provided detailed climatological and other environmental data, over geological time periods, on the regional and global surface conditions existing at the time of snow deposit. The ice core results reveal man’s impact upon the changing environment and long-term evidence regarding abrupt global climate change, leading to discovery of the Dansgaard-Oeschger event.
Thomas J. Tucker, president of the Buffalo Center Chapter of United University Professions, the union representing UB faculty and professional staff, will receive the Regional Outstanding Leader Award from the Western New York Region of New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) at that union’s 25th Annual Awards Dinner, being held June 7 in Samuel’s Grand Manor.
Tucker, scene shop supervisor in the Center for the Arts, will be the first labor leader from higher education to receive the award, the most prestigious presented by this NYSUT region, which represents more than 19,000 members throughout Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming counties.
NYSUT Regional Staff Director Michael Deely said Tucker was selected to receive this award “because of his longtime, full engagement in and commitment to higher education and K through 12 education.”
Thomas Burrows, executive director of the Center for the Arts, has been designated as a Distinguished Fellow by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare.
The honor was awarded at the organization’s 23rd annual international conference, held earlier this month in Detroit.
Designation as a Distinguished Fellow recognizes those members of the society who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to the arts-in-health-care field.
Burrows has led the creation and continued development of the Center for the Arts’ Arts in Healthcare Initiative, which brings the performing and visual arts into health care settings—primarily at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute—to enhance the healing environment for patients and caregivers.
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