Two former UB basketball greats, two legendary coaches and the 1965 NCAA Tournament team will be honored Feb. 3 by the Division of Athletics and the UB Basketball Alumni Club. Players Jim Horne and Harold Kuhn and coaches Mal Eiken and Len Serfustini were instrumental in leading the Bulls from the late 1940s to 1970.

Horne, who played from 1951 to 1955, is the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,833 points. He holds school career records for most free throws in a career (497) and free throw attempts (700). Horne also holds the UB record for most points in a game with 41.

Kuhn, who will be honored posthumously, is ranked seventh on the club's all-time scoring list with 1,065 points during a three-year career from 1949-52. He scored 485 points his senior season, third-best in UB history.

Eiken, who also will be honored posthumously, coached the Bulls from 1946 through the 1955-56 season. He compiled a 140-73 record, including a 17-3 mark in his final year.

Serfustini coached the Bulls for 14 seasons from 1956 to 1968 and compiled a 206-105 record. His 1964-65 team went 19-3 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, defeating Randolph-Macon 81-69 in the first round before losing to Akron.

Players and coaches will be formally honored during a dinner Feb. 3 at the Buffalo Marriott. Cocktails will be served at 3:30, followed by dinner at 4:15. Tickets are $40 per person and $75 per couple. Following the dinner, honorees will gather for an on-court celebration at halftime of the Bulls Mid-Continent Conference game against Youngstown State.

For tickets or more information, contact the UB Athletics Development Office at 645-6867.

Germaine Buck named to NRC committee

Germaine Buck, associate professor of social and preventive medicine at UB, has been appointed to a three-year term on the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Toxicology. The committee, a component of the NRC's Commission on Life Sciences, provides expert advice to government agencies on a broad spectrum of toxicologic issues.

Buck has won national recognition for her epidemiologic research in human reproduction and fetal and early-childhood health. She holds a three-year fellowship from the Merck Company Foundation and the Society for Epidemiology Research to conduct a long-term study of the safety and effectiveness of tubal ligation.

Buck, a registered nurse, holds master's and doctoral degrees in epidemiology from UB. A member of the American College of Epidemiology, Society for Epidemiologic Research and the Society for Pediatric Epidemiologic Research, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. She publishes frequently in professional journals.

New Cafe Opens in Natural Sciences Building

A new food facility-BUNS-N-BURNER Cafe-operated by UB Dining Services, opened Monday in the Natural Sciences Building on the North Campus. The new cafe, on the second floor of the building, features freshly made deli sandwiches, soups, snack items and hot and cold beverages. It will be open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

The name for the new facility was selected from suggestions submitted by students during a contest in December. Karin Maurer received a prize for submitting the winning name.

Creeley Winner of Reader's Digest Award

Robert Creeley, Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at UB, is a recipient of the 1995 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Awards. Winners must have published nonfiction works of exceptional merit and have demonstrated a commitment to writing as a career. Each recipient will receive $105,000 to be paid in three annual installments of $35,000.

In addition to having more time for their writing, winners will partner with a nonprofit organization to create programs fostering an exchange of ideas and a greater appreciation for contemporary literature. Each organization will receive about $30,000 to cover related program costs. Creeley will partner with the Just Buffalo Literary Center in Buffalo to work with high school students who will write and publish an electronic interactive poetry journal on the Internet.

FAHRINGER SPEAKER AT LAW ALUMNI LUNCHEON

Renowned defense attorney Herald Price Fahringer will be the keynote speaker when officers and directors of the UB Law Alumni Association host a luncheon Jan. 26 in the Union League Club in New York City. The luncheon is being held in conjunction with the New York State Bar Association's annual meeting. Alumni and friends of the UB Law School have been invited to attend.

A 1956 graduate of UB Law School, Fahringer is a partner in the New York law office of Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria. A leading constitutional lawyer, he has taken 14 cases to the United States Supreme Court. Among those he has defended are Claus von Bulow, who was accused of trying to murder his wife; Jean Harris, for killing the Scarsdale diet doctor; and drummer Buddy Rich on drug charges.

Among Fahringer's many publications in the area of criminal law are "Sentencing-Making the Representing a Witness Before a Grand Jury;" "Best of a Bad Situation" and "In the Valley of the Blind-Jury Selection in a Criminal Case."

He has appeared on national television, has reported as a legal commentator for CNN and was featured frequently during the Simpson trial.

Fahringer has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the UB Law School Alumni Association, the Thurgood Marshall Award from the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Outstanding Practitioner Award from the Criminal Justice Section of the New York State Bar Association.

Greatbatch, Gage honored by D'Youville College

Wilson Greatbatch, inventor of the implantable heart pacemaker, and Andrew A. Gage, first surgeon to implant the cardiac pacemaker in man, were honored Jan. 31 with D'Youville College's first Award for Achievement in Health Care. Greatbatch is adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at UB. A member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Aerospace Hall of Fame and a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Before his retirement in 1994, Gage was deputy director of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, a professor of surgery and associate director for clinical affairs. A surgeon and chief of surgical service at the Veterans Hospital for 37 years, he served as chief of staff for 15 years.

WBFO names Krug director of development

Barbara Krug has been named director of development at WBFO 88.7 FM, where she will oversee the station's fund-raising efforts including membership and underwriting.

Krug joined WBFO in October as the station's underwriting manager. She previously served as director of marketing at Ohio University's Telecommunications Center and as on-air promotion producer at WNED in Buffalo. She holds a bachelor's degree in broadcasting from Buffalo State College and a master's degree in telecommunications from Ohio University.

Articles by UB Professors in "Liberal Education"

Two UB faculty members, Jeannette Ludwig, associate professor of modern languages and literatures, and John A. Meacham, professor of psychology, have articles in the fall issue of Liberal Education, published by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The issue also includes an article by Steven Sample, former president of UB, now president of the University of Southern California.

The UB professors' articles were based on their participation in the American Pluralism course at UB and in the summer seminar held at Wil-liams College for the past few summers, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation and the AAC&U. Ludwig's article is titled, "The One-Minute Paper: Enhancing Discussion in a Multicultural Seminar"; Meacham's is "Conflict in Multi-culturalism Classes: Too Much Heat or Too Little?" Sample's article, "The Great Straddlers: Successors to the Renaissance Man," was an adaptation of his 1993 Pullias Lecture.

Series for Pharmacists on Disease, Research

Research and clinical applications of new agents to treat multiple sclerosis and cancer, problems of infertility and agents to immunize against disease are topics set for the Series on Disease States and Therapeutics for pharmacists. Sponsored by the UB School of Pharmacy, lectures will be held from 6-9:30 p.m. in 523 Cooke Hall.

Multiple sclerosis was the topic of the first program Jan. 24. Terence Fullerton, assistant director of the Dent Neurologic Institute's Neuro-pharmacology Division and UB clinical assistant professor of pharmacy, discussed newly approved drugs and research. Other presenters are:

John Loughner, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Feb. 21, "Oncology Review."

Elaine Green, pharmacy-education consultant, March 19, "Infertility: Causes and Therapeutic Approaches."

Michael Cimino, clinical coordinator of the Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology Center for Women & Children at Children's Hospital of Buffalo and UB clinical assistant professor of pharmacy and pediatrics, April 25, "Childhood Immunization."

For more information call 645-3931, ext. 247.

Doctoral student receives $2,500 grant

Melissa Waite, a doctoral candidate in human resource management in the UB School of Management, has received a $2,500 grant from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Foundation to fund her dissertation, "Modeling Gain Sharing and Quality: A Longitudinal Quasi-experimental Field Study."

Waite's study investigates the influence that gain sharing, an incentive compensation plan, has on an organization's total quality management initiatives and financial performance.