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New Faculty Faces
The Reporter this week begins "New Faculty Faces," a feature that introduces new faculty members to the UB community. An effort is being made to contact all new faculty members. Anyone wishing to be featured may contact the Reporter at ub-reporter@buffalo.edu.
Name: Tony Arnold
School: College of Arts and
Sciences
Department: Music
Academic title:
Assistant Professor of Vocal Performance
Academic degrees: B.Mus.,
Oberlin College; M.Mus., Northwestern University
Areas of Special
Interest: Contemporary music
The music department at UB
presents an opportunity to create a unique program of study in
contemporary classical music, and to work with a faculty dedicated to
excellence in the creation and performance of new music. The
combination of the department's vision with outstanding faculty
performers puts UB on the leading edge of the classical music scene.
This year also marks the inaugural season of the new faculty ensemble,
HEARD, which makes it a particularly exciting time to be at UB.
Name: Arin Bhattacharjee
School: Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic
Degrees: B.S., biology, and certification in
pharmacology, University of Alberta; Ph.D., pharmacology, University of
South Alabama; postdoctorate, neuroscience/pharmacology, Yale University
Areas of Special Interest: Neurobiology of pain perception,
cortical processing, ion channels
There is so much knowledge out
there—a child born today, in his or her lifetime will have to
learn so much more about the world, compared to what a child born
100 years ago, had to learn. The same will be said a hundred years from
now. Our collective destiny is to seek knowledge, acquire knowledge
and then to teach to the next generation what we have learned. This
is how our civilization has progressed and will continue to
progress. Teaching is the realization of this intended purpose and,
therefore, I feel inspired and a sense of personal duty by the
thought of teaching what I have learned.
Name: David Castillo
School: College of Arts and
Sciences
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures
Academic Title: Associate Professor
Academic
Degrees: Licenciado, Universidad de Granada;
M.A., Spanish
literature, and Ph.D., Spanish and Luso-Brasilian literature and
linguistics, University of Minnesota
I'm currently working on an
edited volume with Italianist colleague Massimo Lollini of the
University of Oregon titled "Reason and Its Others: Italy, Spain and the
New World (1500s-1700s)." I'm also working on a long-term
monographic study of literary curiosities from the 16th and 17th
centuries, tentatively titled "Baroque Gallery of Horrors and
Curiosities: Dark Fantasies in the Spanish Golden Age."