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"The Omen of the Eagles and the Ethos of Agamemnon," an article by John Peradotto, emeritus SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and former faculty member in the Department of Classics, has been included in an anthology of 13 of the most important articles on the Greek playwright Aeschylus published in the past 50 years. The 1969 article by Peradotto, also an internationally recognized Homeric scholar, is an analysis of Aeschylus' trilogy, the Oresteia, a principal subject of Peradotto's writing for more than 30 years. In its original form, it was published in the journal Phoenix. It has been included in "Aeschylus" (Oxford University Press), a 422-page anthology edited by Michael Lloyd that will be published this month as part of the series "Oxford Readings in Classical Studies."
Daniel Hess, assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, has won the 2006 Best Paper Competition sponsored by the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) at City University of New York. The paper, which reports on the outcome of a study that Hess, as principal investigator, conducted with Brian D. Taylor and Allison C. Yoh, both of UCLA, is titled "Light Rail Lite or Cost-Effective Improvements to Bus Service? Evaluating Costs to Implementing Bus Rapid Transit." It originally was published in the Transportation Research Record, the journal of the Transportation Research Board, in 2004.
Barbara Nevergold, co-founder, with Peggy Brooks-Bertram, of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women at UB, is one of five individuals to be honored this year by the State of New York with a 2007 Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award. The award is one of the state's highest honors for humanitarian service and pays tribute to New Yorkers who have made major contributions to human and civil rights. The Uncrowned Queens Institute conducts research on the issues affecting women of color and develops educational programs to enhance the quality of life for women and their communities. Part of the institute is the "Uncrowned Queens" project, which has documented the contributions of African-American women in the Western New York area.