The Rehabilitation Engineering Center on Universal Design at Buffalo will host an invitational workshop on "Anthropometrics of Disability" May 31 to June 2. The workshop, sponsored by the U.S. Access Board, is designed to identify new directions in anthropometric research methods and applications of databases in design.

The Board of Regents at the University of Minnesota has voted to confer upon Gerhard Levy, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pharmaceutics, the honorary Doctor of Science degree, the highest award conferred by the university. The College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota will hold a scientific symposium to mark the occasion, with Levy and Ho Leung Fung, UB professor of pharmaceutical sciences, among the speakers. Levy also will address graduates of the College of Pharmacy at commencement ceremonies in May.

Ernst H. Beutner, professor emeritus of microbiology and dermatology, received the Dermatology Foundation's 2000 Discovery Award at the foundation's annual meeting, held earlier this month in Washington. Beutner, who was a co-winner of the award with Robert E. Jordan, chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, was honored for work he conducted with Jordan on the role of autoantibodies in the pathogenesis of pemphigus vulgaris.

Charles Bernstein, David Gray Professor of English and director of the Poetics Program in the Department of English, last week delivered a short commentary on National Poetry Month on the National Public Radio program "All Things Considered."

Robert Shibley, professor of planning and director of the Urban Design Project in the School of Architecture and Planning, has co-authored a new book, "Commitment to Place: Urban Excellence and Community," with Emily Axelrod, Jay Farbstein and Richard Wener. Published by the Bruner Foundation, the book provides case histories of five winning community design, redevelopment and reuse projects from the 1999 Bruner awards program.