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Thomas Furlani, research associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, and associate director of the Center for Computational Research (CCR), has been named director of CCR. As associate director of CCR, Furlani is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the center, as well as overseeing CCR's research activities. He also has helped to establish a pilot high school program in bioinformatics. Prior to joining the UB faculty in 1994, he was principal chemist at Calspan Advanced Technology Center. He holds a doctorate in physical chemistry from UB.
The news department at WBFO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio affiliate, won one first-place award and five special mentions at the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association's annual awards banquet, held June 3 in Saratoga Springs. Eileen Buckley, assistant news director, producer and reporter, won a first-place award in the Best Interview category for "Women's Radio in Iraq." Mark Scott, news director, won a special mention in the category for "Lowest of the Low." The station also won special mentions in the following categories: Best Continuing News Coverage, "Erie County Budget Crisis," Buckley, Scott and Joyce Kryszak cultural affairs reporter and producer; Best Enterprise Reporting, "An Expensive Award" and "Big Brother in the Barn," both by Kryszak; and Best Feature, "Literary Buffalo," Sarah Campbell, producer of WBFO's "Spoken Arts" program.
"Politics is Local: National Politics at the Grassroots," a new book co-authored by Donald Munroe Eagles, associate professor of political science and geography, was on the short list for the Donald Smiley Prize, awarded annually by the Canadian Political Science Association to the best book published in the previous year dealing with Canadian politics or government.
Eagles' co-author is R. Kenneth Carty, McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Lynda H. Schneekloth, professor of architecture; Robert Shibley, professor of architecture and director of the Urban Design Project, both in the School of Architecture and Planning; and Neil Schmitz, professor of English, participated in a panel discussion on utopian and dystopian views of American rivers—specifically, the Buffalo, Niagara, Mississippi and Tennessee—at the Second Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment, held earlier this spring at Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Austria. The theme of the conference was "Water: Literary, Cultural and Environmental Perspectives."