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John Nyquist, a board certified medical illustrator and manager of medical illustration and graphics, received the "Russell Drake Award of Excellence for Instructional Line" from the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) at the group's 2002 annual meeting. The award recognizes illustrations Nyquist drew to accompany the article "Flexor Superficialis Abductorplasty with Carpal Tunnel Release for Thenar Palsy," to be published in the Journal of Hand Surgery. Nyquist is a co-author of the article with Clayton Peimer, former professor of orthopaedic surgery at UB and now professor of orthopaedics and anatomy at Northwestern University, and Ross Richer, a fourth-year UB medical student.
Ellen Christensen, director of health education and human services of Sub Board I, will receive a Women's Health Award at the Celebration 2002 luncheon to be held by Planned Parenthood of Buffalo & Erie County on Oct. 1. Christensen will be recognized as an outstanding member of the women's health community, along with Alice Sullivan, assistant director of the Weigel Health Center at Buffalo State College,
Harvey Axlerod, computer discipline officer, participated in a security workshop funded by the National Science Foundation to help develop a strategy for computer and network security at colleges and universities. The workshop, which took place Aug. 20-21 in Chicago, was sponsored by EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force.
The second edition of a textbook by Brett Pelham, associate professor of Psychology, and Hart Blanton of SUNY Albany has been called "a book that shows just how intuitive and just how delicious science can be. It sparkles, illuminates and inspires at every turn" by Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University. The book, "Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke," is a lively, hands-on, practical approach to experimental research methods in psychology, written to give students a feel for what it is actually like to conduct research. The book helps students to translate their familiar life skills into the sophisticated techniques that skilled experimenters use.
Wolfgang Wolck, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics, has been named the first honorary member of the European Research Center for Multilingualism. The honor was bestowed upon Wolck during the center's 25th anniversary symposium, held June 28-29 in Brussels, Belgium, at which time Wolck was cited for "his outstanding scientific work in the field of contact linguistics." Contact linguistics represents the multidisciplinary intersection of linguistics and anthropology, ethnography, geography, political science, psychology and sociology, based on language contact situations worldwide.