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"Steel and Beyond: New Strategies for Metals in Architecture," a new book by Annette LeCuyer, professor in the Department of Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, has been published by Birkhauser (Basel, Berlin, Boston) as part of its architecture and engineering series. The book features essays highlighting how digital design and fabrication are fundamentally changing the concepts of order and optimization. The book includes case studies of recently completed buildings that have innovative metal structures and cladding.
Tamar Jacobson, director of the UB Child Care Center Inc., has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers (NCCCC) for a three-year term, beginning in March. NCCCC is a nonprofit educational membership organization that 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.
Gary Day, associate professor of architecture, received the Mentor of the Year Award from the Buffalo/Western New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The award is given annually to an individual who has inspired architectural students, interns or architects with professional guidance and wisdom.
Jorge Guitart, professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, has made his public debut as songwriter with "Si tú supieras" ("If You Knew"), a Cuban tango included in "Love Being Here," the latest song collection by Elise Witt on EMWorld Records. Guitart shares songwriting credit on the CD with Peggy Lee, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, gospel music composers, Daniel Brown of Twittering Birds, Witt herself and her great, great, great, great uncle, Felix Mendelssohn. This is the ninth CD by the Swiss-born Witt, an internationally recognized composer and performer whose work appears in many international venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center, and on radio and television throughout the world.