Two UB students have been selected to receive American Chemical Society (ACS) National Minority Scholarships for the 1995-96 school year. Jose Miguel Cintron is studying chemistry and Latasha R. Beckman, chemical engineering.

They are among 201 African-American, Hispanic and American Indian students nationwide who received scholarships from the ACS. The scholarships, which are renewable, range in value up to $2,500 each in freshman and sophomore years and $5,000 each in junior and senior years.

DOCTORAL STUDENT IN DENTAL SCHOOL WINS INTERNATIONAL AWARD

Amitabha Lala, a doctoral student in the Department of Oral Biology in the UB School of Dental Medicine, has won the International Association for Dental Research's (IADR) Hatton Award, its top student honor.

Lala represented the American Association for Dental Research at the international meeting in Singapore, where the award was presented, competing against winners from the 16 other divisions of the IADR. He was named overall winner of the competition for his postdoctoral research, "Expression, Purification and Immunochemical Characterization of Human Neutrophil FMLP Receptor."

Ernesto DeNardin, UB associate professor of oral biology, was Lala's mentor and a co-author of the study. Other co-authors were Robert J. Genco, professor and chair of oral biology and Hakimuddin T. Sojar, assistant professor of oral biology.

ENGINEERING FORMS DELTA SOCIETY FOR ALUMNI, FRIENDS

The annual appeal for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is under way, according to Larry Johnson, assistant dean. Michael Benzin is director of the annual appeal, part of an outreach effort to expand private support among alumni and friends of the school.

A new club, the Delta Society, was established over the summer with Anthony L. Russo as chair. The club plans to recruit 135 founding members who will make annual gifts of $1,000 or more to provide the vital resources needed to keep the school on the cutting edge of engineering education.

SEED MONEY AVAILABLE FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

The Office of the Vice President for Research has announced the Multidisciplinary Pilot Project Program for 1995-96. It provides limited seed funding of up to $20,000 in direct costs to enable faculty to begin multidisciplinary research in an area new to them by collecting preliminary data needed to prove the viability of their research plan and to enhance the competitiveness of a subsequent research proposal to an external government or private sector funding source. Awards are expected to be announced by April 19, 1996.

Deadline for submission of proposals is Feb. 9, 1996. Proposals involving co-principal investigators from distinctly different disciplines and departments are encouraged. Program guidelines can be requested from the Office of the Vice President for Research, 516 Capen Hall; phone 645-3321.

SIGEL COMPOSITIONS TO PREMIERE DEC. 10

Allen Sigel, professor emeritus of music, will have two premieres of his works performed Dec. 10 at the Jewish Community Center on North Forest Road. The program is in celebration of the community center's golden anniversary. Stephen Manes and The Amherst Saxophone Quartet will perform the compositions, scored for piano and saxophone quartet.

Sigel's Four Nations Suite pays tribute to Poulenc, deFalla, Bloch and Bartok and the folk music of their respective countries. The second composition, Shtetl Echoes, for saxophone quartet, is based on folk songs of European Jewry.

NEW UB DANCE GROUP PRESENTS FIRST CONCERT

"Studiowerks," a new group formed at UB as a companion company to the Zodiaque dance troupe, will present its first dance concert Dec. 8-10. Performances will take place at 8 p.m. in the Rehearsal Workshop Theatre of the Center for the Arts on UB's North Campus. Tickets are $3 and are available through the Center for the Arts ticket office, 645-ARTS.

The program will be directed by Lynne Kurdziel-Formato and Tom Ralabate, lecturers in theater and dance. Choreography is by the directors and by William Thomas, associate professor of theater and dance, and students Bonnie Butkas, Jody Dombrowski, Kristine Meyer and Stacy Zawadzski. The program will feature music by Prince, Zap Mama, Mary McLaughlin, Mark Mancina and the score from "Smokey Joe's Cafe."