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Alex Ampadu, associate professor of accounting and law in the School of Management, has been selected to receive the Dr. Emmanuel Saxe Outstanding CPA in Education Award. The award, which highlights outstanding service and professional development in accounting education, will be presented to Ampadu by the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants on May 18 at the society's 109th Annual Election Meeting and Dinner at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. A UB faculty member since 1986, Ampadu teaches a wide range of both undergraduate and graduate accounting courses. He developed the school's endorsed internal auditing program—one of only 40 such programs in the world—and now serves as its director.
Lillian S. Williams, associate professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies, was recognized as an Outstanding Citizen by The Buffalo News. Williams was honored for her work in getting early civil rights leader Mary Talbert inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls. Williams, who was honored with Madeline O. Scott, president of the Afro American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier, also organized the Niagara Movement centennial commemoration last summer that celebrated the impact this region had on the early civil rights movement.
The upcoming Irish Classical Theatre Company's production of "Loot" is being directed by Robert Knopf, professor and chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. The comedy features Vincent O'Neill, associate professor of theatre and dance, in the key role of Inspector Truscott. The play will open on April 21 and run through May 21 at the Irish Classical Theatre Company, 625 Main St., Buffalo.
Michelle Niescierenko, a student in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been named a recipient of the American Medical Association Foundation's 2006 Leadership Award. The award recognizes outstanding non-clinical leadership skills in advocacy, community service and/or education, and provides medical students, residents/fellows, young physicians and international medical graduate physicians from around the country special training to develop their skills as future leaders in organized medicine. Niescierenko is the founder and director of the Lighthouse Insurance Initiative, which strives to improve access to health care and insurance enrollment. She has served as New York State Lobby Day coordinator and is an active member of the AMA.
A paper authored by Adrienne Decker, lecturer, and Sara Haydanek, an undergraduate student, both in the Department of Computer Science Engineering, was awarded the "Best Paper Award" at the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Eastern Conference, held recently at Iona College. The paper, entitled "When Objects Collide: Abstractions over Common Physics Problems for Capstone Projects in CS1," is the second UB paper in three years to win this award