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ADAMS MAKES GIFT TO UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Judith Adams, director of the Lockwood Library, has made a bequest to the library, one of the largest monetary gifts to the University Libraries ever received from a library staff member.

Adams, recently named president of the SUNY Librarians Association, said "I have a strong commitment to making Lockwood a fine and attractive library for the university community." Improvements are needed to bring the library's interior environment up-to-date, to benefit the university community and the public who use the library's resources and services.

Adams is a member of the American Libraries Association, Library Administration and Management Association, and Society for the History of Technology. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; a master's degree in library science from Syracuse University, and a master's degree in English from Lehigh University.

She is the author of a number of articles in books and journals on the subject of technology and culture. She also has written three books, including the widely regarded "The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills."

BRADLEY AULT AWARDED BLEGEN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Bradley A. Ault, assistant professor of classics, has been awarded the Blegen Research Fellowship at Vassar College for the 1997-98 year.

The fellowship was endowed by Vassar College alumna, faculty member and classical archaeologist Elizabeth Denny Pierce-Blegen, who was married to the archaeologist Carl Blegen. Offered annually to specialists in a variety of areas within classical studies, it was awarded to Bradley Ault for classical archaeology. While in residence for the year at Vassar he will work on an in-progress book, "Oikos and Oikonomia. Late Classical Houses and Households at Halieis, Greece."

MAHONEY RECEIVES MULTIPLE AWARDS

Martin Mahoney, a clinical instructor in the Department of Family Medicine, recently received three awards. Mahoney, who is completing a three-year residency in family medicine in Western New York hospitals, was awarded the American Medical Association/Glaxo Well-come Leadership Award for his "extraordinary leadership abilities."

He also was chosen as the recipient of the Resident's Award for "Contribution By a Resident To State Academy Activities," given by the New York State Academy of Family Physicians.

In addition, he received the Mead Johnson Award for Graduate Education in Family Practice, given by Mead Johnson, a Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, in recognition of his work and commitment to the ideals of family practice.

A graduate of Canisius College, Mahoney holds master's, doctoral and medical degrees from UB. He also serves as an assistant professor in Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Graduate Division and an assistant professor of epidemiology at SUNY Albany's School of Public Health.

He is the resident representative on the Council on Medical Specialty Societies of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and received the American Public Health Association's Jay Dortman Memorial Award for his research involving mortality patterns among the Seneca Nation of Indians.

He has continued his research with native populations, and is a founding member of the Network for Cancer Control Research in American-Indian and Alaska-Native populations, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.

MORIN NAMED CHAIR OF PEDIATRICS DEPARTMENT

Frederick C. Morin III has been appointed chair of the Pediatrics Department in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and pediatrician-in-chief for Children's Hospital.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Yale University School of Medicine, he joined UB in 1986 as assistant professor of pediatrics. He became chief of the neonatology division at Children's Hospital and associate professor of pediatrics and physiology in 1989. In 1994 he became professor of pediatrics and vice chairman of research in the Pediatrics Department.

The neonatology division, under his direction, has grown to more than 84 beds at multiple levels of care and is responsible for 1,200 deliveries a year. It is the only newborn referral center for a region encompassing 22,000 deliveries annually.

Morin, who has published 48 articles in peer review journals, has conducted research on the use of inhaled nitric oxide to treat newborns with persistent pulmonary hypertension. The work, which resulted in a successful trial of the therapy on newborns at Children's Hospital and other centers, was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

MUSIC DEPARTMENT, EASTMAN TO PRESENT ORGAN CONCERT

The Department of Music and the Eastman School of Music will co-present a recital of organ students from Eastman on Sunday, July 27, at 5 p.m. in Slee Concert Hall.

The concert, free and open to the public, will feature four outstanding student organists, J. Christopher Pardini, Bruce Frank, Jennifer Pascual and Christopher Marks, all of whom have placed highly in several competitions.

The collaboration between UB and Eastman affords talented students who study in the internationally recognized department at Eastman the opportunity to perform on the highly acclaimed Fisk pipe organ in Slee Hall.

TCIE ANNOUNCES TWO NEW APPOINTMENTS

The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) has announced two staff changes. The center has hired Linda Padur as financial administrator and promoted Tricia Mattulke to training assistant.

Padur will provide general accounting and financial administrative support to the center. A graduate of Erie Community College, she has more than 20 years of accounting and office-management experience.

As training assistant, Mattulke will assist in coordinating state training-grant administration and company-funded training activities. A graduate of Erie Community College, she is pursuing a bachelor's degree at UB. Mattulke worked in a variety of accounting, administrative and financial-support roles in industry before joining TCIE in 1996 as financial administrator.

Based in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and affiliated with the School of Management, TCIE promotes economic growth in Western New York by helping local companies become more competitive.

DENTAL PROFESSOR RECEIVES ALUMNI AWARD

Paulette Tempro, associate professor of periodontics, recently received the Distinguished Dental Alumni Award from the School of Dental Medicine at the University

at Stony Brook in recognition of her hard work and dedication to the field of dentistry.

The award was conferred at the Stony Brook dental school's commencement ceremony, at which Tempro addressed the graduates.

A UB faculty member since 1993, Tempro served as co-director of the Oral Microbiology Laboratory in the School of Dental Medicine from 1993-94.

She is the principal investigator on a five-year, $350,000 grant from the National Institute for Dental Research to study the structure of certain molecules, which may lead to ways of preventing the attachment of bacteria that cause periodontal disease.

A member of the International Association of Dental Research and the American Society for Microbiology, Tempro has published numerous articles in scholarly journals.

A graduate of Pace University, she received a certificate in periodontology from Columbia University.

WISHART IS DIRECTOR OF NEW STUDENT PROGRAMMING

Heather Wishart has been appointed director of new student programming. Formerly director of orientation at SUNY Geneseo, she also served as associate director of college and union activities and associate director of residence life.

Her duties at UB will include oversight of all orientation programs for incoming freshmen, transfer students and parents. She also will be responsible for the "UB 101" classes offered to new students as a way to learn about the university. In addition, she will be in charge of programs run through the commuter center and ongoing residence-life workshops.

Wishart is a member of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the National Orientation Directors Association. She received a bachelor's degree in recreation education from SUNY Cortland and a master's degree in higher/post secondary education from Syracuse University. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in higher education administration from UB.

ZEPLOWITZ HEADS ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

Franklin Zeplowitz, clinical instructor of surgery at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was installed May 13 as president of the Erie County Medical Society.

Medical director and chief of staff at Our Lady of Victory Hospital in Lackawanna, he is a practicing general surgeon in Buffalo.

Zeplowitz received his medical degree from UB and is a past president of the Medical School Alumni Association, the Buffalo Surgical Society, the Phi Lambda Kappa Medical Alumni and the Maimonides Medical Society. He is past chairman of the James Platt White Society.

CHILD CARE CENTER TO OPEN NORTH CAMPUS SATELLITE

The University at Buffalo Child Care Center is accepting preschoolers for a program it will open for the fall semester in a satellite classroom on the North Campus.

The program, for children ages 3-5, will be operated by the child- care center in cooperation with the Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic. It will run from 7:15 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Mondays through Fridays in the clinic in Park Hall.

Anyone interested in the program should contact Tamar Meyer at

829-2226 or e-mail at tmeyer@acsu.buffalo.edu

Space is limited, and applicants are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

The University at Buffalo Child Care Center is a non-profit, licensed, child-care program that serves UB faculty, staff and students. The center, located on the South Campus, has a staff of 24 early-childhood educators and is accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs.

GLASS LECTURES AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Dorothy Glass, professor in the Department of Art History, recently lectured at the Gilman International Conference on Cultural Interchange in the Mediterranean. Her topic was "The Holy Land in Italy."

MICHALSKI FEATURED IN BETTER HOMES PUBLICATION

Jereen Michalski, a receptionist in the Department of Periodontics, is featured in the July "Better Homes and Gardens Floral & Nature Crafts" magazine for her use of pressed herbs and flowers to turn

T-shirts into wearable art.

Michalski, who teaches in UB's credit-free Life Workshops and other community education programs, has won numerous awards for her use of pressed botanicals in craft work.

A community lecturer and member of the Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens and the Herb Society of America, she maintains herb and flower gardens specializing in miniature specimens.

INCOMING FRESHMAN WINS WAL-MART SCHOLARSHIP

Karen Kopecky, who will attend UB as a freshman in the fall, has been selected by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., as this year's recipient of its annual Wal-Mart Competitive Edge Scholarship, which totals $20,000 over four years.

The scholarship, awarded to an outstanding freshman in a technology-related program, will make it possible for Kopecky to pursue studies in mathematics.

A City Honors High School graduate with a 4.3 grade-point average, Kopecky was a volunteer in Sister's Hospital's skilled nursing facility.