University at Buffalo - The State University of New York

Published: October 6, 2005

Name: Dorothee Brantz
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: History
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degree: Ph.D, University of Chicago, with distinction
Areas of Special Interest: Modern European and transatlantic history (France, Germany and the U.S.), environmental history, the history of human-animal relations
I'm currently working on a history of slaughterhouses in 19th-century Paris, Berlin and Chicago, and I have started a new project on the environment and warfare in the 20th century. I'm also editing two books on the history of animals that grew out of a conference I organized in Cologne, Germany, this past May.

Name: Murat Demirbas
School: Engineering and Applied Sciences
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: M.S. and Ph.D., computer science and engineering, The Ohio State University; postdoctorate, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Areas of Special Interest: Wireless sensor networks, distributed and networked systems, dependable computing
The thing I enjoy about teaching is watching students grow in their understanding of the subject and noticing their excitement when they create new ideas and projects.

Name: Matthew D. Disney
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Chemistry
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: B.S., chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park; M.S. and Ph.D., chemistry, University of Rochester
Areas of Special Interest: RNA targeting, cell-surface glycobiology, antibiotic development, controlling RNA splicing
The energy of an up-and-coming chemistry department and the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences are two of the things that attracted me to UB.

Name: Neil E. Williams
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Philosophy
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: B.A., University of Calgary; M.A., Simon Fraser University; M.Phil. and Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of Special Interest: Metaphysics
I enjoy opening up the world of philosophy to those who've never had the opportunity to think about philosophical problems before.

Name: Everett Yuehong Zhang
School: College of Arts and Science
Department: Anthropology
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Special Interest: Social/cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, China, East Asia, Asian Americans
"Dao ke dao, fei chang Dao"—if the Way can be described clearly, then it is not the Way that can last indefinately.

Name: Michael W. McGlone
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Philosophy
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A. and Ph.D. (expected 2005-06), Princeton University
Areas of Special Interest: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind
I currently am most interested in the relationship between the linguistic meanings of declarative sentences and the information that such sentences are used to communicate.