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Published: March 11, 2004

Michael E. Cohen, professor of neurology and pediatrics in the Department of Neurology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, has received the 30th Annual Hower Award in Pediatric Neurology from The Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital. One of the major international honors in pediatric neurology, the Hower Award is presented to a physician who has made a significant contribution to the field of pediatric neurology. The recipient is selected by The Child Neurology Society, an organization of the nation's top pediatric neurologists.

The Organization of American Historians has awarded its Binkley-Stephenson Award to Gail Radford, associate professor in the Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, for her article "From Municipal Socialism to Public Authorities: Institutional Factors in the Shaping of American Public Enterprise." This distinction is awarded annually for the best scholarly article published in the Journal of American History, the flagship journal in the discipline of American history.

Elaine Hull, professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Austin College Alumni Association. Distinguished Alumni Awards recognize alumni of the Sherman, Texas, college who have distinguished themselves in their professional lives, contribute to their communities, and exemplify leadership and ethical standards.

Kent Kleinman, professor and chair of the Department of Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, will present a lecture at Columbia University's Buell Center on the work of the American modernist William Muschenheim.

Bonnie Ott, Gary Day and Shahin Vassigh, all associate professors in the Department of Architecture, along with UB alumni Apisit Thanavuthiporn (M Arch 2004), were selected as a finalist in the Chichi Earthquake Memorial Competition. The competition will establish a memorial to the events of Sept. 21, 1999, the date of an enormously destructive earthquake in Taiwan that destroyed 50,000 homes, killed more than 2,400 people and injured more than 8,700 others. The UB team's proposal is to construct a fault-like tear in the project site. Visitors to the memorial would walk down, into and through the earth-walled fault.