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Vasiliki Neofotistos, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, has received a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Southeast European Studies Program of the American Council of Learned Societies. Neofotistos’ project, “Collective Memory and Reconciliation in the Republic of Macedonia,” examines the social and political process through which Macedonians and Albanians construe their memories of the 2001 conflict between government forces and the Albanian National Liberation Army.
Carol Golyski, lecturer and clinical education coordinator for the Medical Technology Program in the Department of Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, recently was elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.
David A. Kofke, UB Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, received the Alumni Achievement Award from Carnegie Mellon University during the university’s recent Homecoming and Reunion Weekend. Kofke, who received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 1983, conducts research that uses molecular simulation to evaluate the physical behaviors exhibited by model materials.
University Police Officers Scott Marciszewski, Gregg Gamble and Brian Horst were recognized as Officers of the Quarter for the third quarter of 2007 by University Police. On Aug. 26, the officers had just completed residence hall floor meetings regarding safety issues when they observed suspicious persons near the Buffalo Materials Research Center on the South Campus who matched the descriptions of individuals involved in a recent robbery in Buffalo. They pursued the suspects and captured two suspects who were linked to numerous robberies in the University Heights area.
The Regional Institute was recognized by the Association for University Business and Economic Research, a professional association of research units at public and private universities, at AUBER’s annual conference, held recently in Pensacola Beach, Fla. The institute received the “Best Web Site” award and the “Best Abstracts and Other Data Publications” award for its Policy Brief series, a periodic publication that informs regional issues with timely, reliable data and analysis.