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Warde Manuel, director of athletics, has been named to the corporate board of directors of the YMCA Buffalo Niagara.
William J. Rapaport, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and adjunct professor of philosophy, delivered the Herbert A. Simon Keynote Address at the North American Computing and Philosophy (NA-CAP) 2006 Conference, held recently at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The title of the talk was "Philosophy of Computer Science: What I Think It Is, What I Teach and How I Teach It," describing a course Rapaport teaches at UB. Rapaport also gave a talk about his research with Michael Kibby, professor of learning and instruction and director of the Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction, Graduate School of Education, during the NA-CAP session on Computational Logic and Linguistics. That talk was titled "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: Computational Philosophy and Philosophical Computation."
Julie Smith, administrative assistant in the Leadership Development Center, Division of Student Affairs, and advisor to UB's chapter of Mortar Board, was one of four Mortar Board chapter advisors from across the country to receive the Excellence in Advising Award for 2005-06 from the national college senior honor society.
Stuart C. Shapiro, professor of computer science and engineering, gave an invited talk titled "Combining Numeric and Symbolic Reasoning in SNePS" at the fifth annual Workshop on Critical Issues in Information Fusion, held Sept. 19-21 at Beaver Hollow Conference Center.
Anne E. Meyer, research associate professor, Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, and director of the Buffalo site of the Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces, chaired the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's Council of Societies' Federal Symposium, held recently in Washington, D.C. The symposium, which focused on the future of federal funding for scientific research, was attended by approximately 40 representatives of technical societies, universities and government agencies. While in Washington, Meyer was part of the six-member New York State delegation that made visits to the offices of Sen. Charles Schumer and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and of seven members of the House of Representatives, including Brian Higgins. The purpose of the visits was to lobby for science funding within the current appropriations bills.