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UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s Center for Genetics and Pharmacology were recently awarded LEED Silver certification for their high standards of sustainability and smart, environmentally conscious design and construction techniques. The $113 million, state-of-the-art buildings, located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, were designed by Francis Cauffman Architects and financed and built by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York
"The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830,” authored by Hal Langfur, assistant professor in the Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences, has received “honorable mention” for the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize awarded by the American Society for Ethnohistory for the best book-length work in the field of ethnohistory published in 2006.
Roger Woodard, Andrew V. V. Raymond Professor of the Classics, Department of Classics, CAS, received the Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 Award for his book "Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages."
Journal of Human Capital, a new academic journal founded and edited by Isaac Ehrlich, SUNY Distinguished Professor and University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of Economics, has debuted from the University of Chicago Press. It is the first academic journal devoted to study of the economic effects of people’s knowledge, skills, health and values—attributes that make up human capital. The journal’s first issue includes an article by Ehrlich and Jinyoung Kim, UB visiting associate professor of economics, who investigated links between income inequality, family size and the family’s investment in education.
Laina Bay-Cheng, assistant professor of social work, has written a chapter, “Human Sexuality,” in the “Encyclopedia of Social Work” (20th ed.), edited by T. Mizrahi and L.E. Davis and forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
“The Role of Structural Variables Leading to Disparities in Childhood Lead Poisoning,Teen Pregnancy and Tobacco Use," a paper by Robert Keefe, associate professor, School of Social Work, has been accepted for a workshop at the annual meeting of the Association of State and Territorial Public Health Social Work Conference.