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Hugh Calkins, professor emeritus in the Department of Geography, has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant in urban planning. Calkins will be based at the Joint Laboratory for GeoInformation Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program offers two-to-six week grants to leading U.S. academics and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at academic institutions in 140 countries around the world.
Tamar Jacobson, director of the UB Child Care Center Inc., was selected Director of the Year by the National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers at the group's annual meeting last weekend in Washington, D.C. NCCCC supports research and activities affecting college and university early childhood education and service settings, family and work issues, and the field of early childhood education in general. The UB Child Care Center enrolls 160 children ages 5 weeks to 5 years at two sites on the North and South campuses.
Saul Elkin, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, and Gerald Finnegan, associate professor, both in the Department of Theatre & Dance in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently appeared in Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn's play, "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor," a co-production of Shakespeare in Delaware Park and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Kleinhans Music Hall. The play is set in a Soviet mental hospital. The two principal characters are a political dissident, who has been "committed" because of his published opposition to the government, and his cell-mate, who is deranged and has an orchestra in his head.
Sebastian Ciancio, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Periodontics and Endodontics in the School of Dental Medicine, has received the 2003 Pharmacology, Therapeutics & Toxicology Research Award from the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). Ciancio will receive the award, which recognizes his "significant contribution to the field of dental research," at the opening ceremony of the 81st IADR General Session, being held in June in G�teborg, Sweden.
Tunde Szecsi, a doctoral candidate in early childhood education in the Graduate School of Education, has been named a winner of an Elizabeth Breathwaite Student Leadership Award from the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI). Szecsi will receive the award at ACEI's annual international conference, being held April 13-16 in Phoenix. The Breadthwaite award is presented to students who have shown evidence of leadership and participation in professional, social and civic activities; interest in teaching or child-related occupations, and participation in ACEI activities.
John M. Canty, Jr., Albert and Elizabeth Rekate Chair in Cardiovascular Diseases in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been elected to the prestigious Association of University Cardiologists (AUC). Founded in 1961, the AUC is limited to an active membership of 125 academic cardiologists from the United States who are elected by their peers. The organization has a purely educational purpose and meets once a year for a two-day session of scientific interchange. Members are recognized as leaders in American cardiology whose endeavors are actively shaping the course of research and training in cardiovascular disease nationwide.