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Published: March 1, 2007

Vincent O'Neill, associate professor of theatre and dance and artistic director of the Irish Classical Theatre Company, will direct the Torn Space Theater's production of Samuel Beckett's masterwork "Endgame." The production will run Fridays and Saturdays, March 9-31, at 8 p.m. at the Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Ave., Buffalo.

Officer Timothy Pray was selected as the Department of Public Safety's Employee of the Quarter for the fourth quarter of 2006 in recognition of his outstanding response to a call of a burglary in progress on the South Campus.

Officer Joseph Paskiewicz received a certificate for meritorious service in recognition of his response to a call to intercept a campus shuttle bus with a possible suspect in the theft of a laptop computer.

Merril Dayton, professor and chair of the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, recently was elected president of the Western Surgical Association, one of the largest surgery organizations in the country.

William Flynn, associate professor and a member of the trauma/critical care faculty in the Department of Surgery, recently was elected chairman of the New York State Committee on Trauma, a statewide group of trauma specialists.

James Hassett, professor and vice chair of education in the Department of Surgery, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Surgical Research.

Kelli Bullard Dunn, associate professor of surgery and a member of the department's surgical oncology faculty at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, has been named to the editorial board of the journal Diseases of the Colon and Rectum.