Reporter Volume 25, No.26 April 28, 1994

CHEMISTRY, COMPUTER SCIENCE
WIN PRESTIGIOUS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS:
Janet R. Morrow, assistant professor of chemistry and Jin-Yi Cai,
associate professor of computer science at UB, are two of only 100
scholars in the U.S. and Canada selected to receive a prestigious
Sloan Research Fellowship.
Established in 1955 to encourage research by young scholars, the
fellowship provides each recipient with a $30,000 research grant over
a period of two years. According to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
which administers the grants, fellows are free to use the funds to
pursue any line of inquiry of interest to them 
	Morrow, who is also an adjunct assistant professor of biology,
will use her grant to continue research on metallodrugs (drugs that
contain metals) and to design mimics for metalloenzymes. Her work has
been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the American
Chemical Society, the National Science Foundation and from industry. A
patent has been filed on aspects of her research.
	Morrow received her doctorate from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the
University of Bordeaux and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of
California at San Diego. She is the author of numerous scientific
papers.
	Jin-Yi Cai will use his grant to continue research into
computational complexity theory, the study of efficient computation
using limited resources, such as time and space. A recipient of the
Presidential Young Investigator award, Cai has received additional
support from NSF and from industry.
	Previously an assistant professor at Princeton and Yale
Universities, Cai is the editor of several computer science journals
including the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
and The Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science. He is also
the author of numerous scientific papers. He received his doctorate
from Cornell University.