Reporter Volume 25, No.10 November 4, 1993

DENTAL MEDICINE
RECEIVES SPECIAL AWARD:
Sebastian G. Ciancio, chair of the Department of Periodontics at UB,
has received a special award from the American Academy of
Periodontology Foundation. The award was presented to Ciancio as a
charter member of the foundation's board of trustees. The foundation
supports the research and educational activities of the academy.
	A 1961 graduate of the UB School of Dental Medicine, Ciancio
is a nationally known researcher in the field of periodontology. He is
past president of the American Academy of Periodontology and the
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Group for the International
and American associations for Dental Research.
	Recognized as an authority on pharmacology in dentistry, he is
editor of Periodontal Insights, published by the academy, and a
monthly newsletter, Biological Therapies in Dentistry.

ARTS AND LETTERS
RECOGNIZED AT  CONFERENCES:
Several members of the Faculty of Arts and Letters at UB have received
recognition at symposia or conferences in their respective fields.
	Carol M. Zemel, associate professor of art history, will
deliver the keynote address at a major international symposium in
Australia this fall on the work of Vincent Van Gogh. The symposium,
"The Songlines of Legend," will be held in Melbourne in conjunction
with an exhibition of Van Gogh's work that opens at the National
Gallery of Victoria on Nov. 18. Zemel recently completed a book on
themes of modernity in Van Gogh's work, which will be published in the
fall of 1994.
	Sarah Elder, associate professor of media study, was a major
participant at the first annual Documentary Conference, held last
month at Duke University. She presented a paper on her 20 years of
film research in Alaska, appeared on a panel and introduced a
screening of the award-winning documentary, "Drums of Winter," which
she co-directed and produced. She discussed community collaborative
filmmaking and its relationship to mainstream ethnography, multi-local
authorship and indigenous media.
	John Peradotto, distinguished teaching professor and Andrew
V.V. Raymond Chair of Classics, received an enthusiastic response to a
paper he delivered last month at an international colloquium at the
University of Grenoble, France. The meeting was convened to evaluate
the work of revolutionary Harvard classicist Milman Parry. More than
60 years ago, Parry's linguistic research challenged commonly held
views about Homeric authorship. His conclusions are still being
debated. 
	"Portraits in Steel," the traveling exhibition based on the
book of photographs and oral histories of Buffalo steelworkers by
history Professor Michael Frisch and adjunct Professor Milton Rogovin,
both of Buffalo, has attracted the attention of The Museum Berliner
Arbeiterleben (Berlin, Germany), which is expected to run the show for
three months in 1994.