Reporter Volume 25, No.27 May 5, 1994

By MARY BETH SPINA
News Bureau Staff
The Honorable M. Dolores Denman, presiding justice of the Appellate
Division of state Supreme Court, Fourth Department, will receive the
Samuel P. Capen Award, the UB Alumni Association's most prestigious
award, during the association's annual awards dinner at 6:30 p.m. May
5 in Center for Tomorrow.
	Denman is among eight individuals who will be honored at the
dinner.
	The Capen Award recognizes notable and meritorious
contributions to the university and its family.
	Denman, who received bachelor's and law degrees from UB,
exemplifies the highest level of service to UB and to the judicial
community. Named 1993 Jurist of the Year by the Erie County Bar
Association, she has received awards from the UB School of Law, the
Women's Bar Association of the State of New York and the New York
State Association of Women's Judges. She serves as a lecturer and
judge in the UB law school's Moot Court competition.
	William H. Pearce, president of Pearce & Pearce Co., Inc., and
a member of the Marine Midland Bank/Western Region senior advisory
board, will receive the Walter P. Cooke Award recognizing notable and
meritorious contributions to UB and its family by a non-alumnus.
Pearce's contributions to UB span 35 years. Most recently, he and his
company established an endowment to support a visiting critic in
design for the School of Architecture and Planning. Pearce is a member
of the board of the Friends of the School of Architecture and is a
trustee of the UB Foundation, Inc.
	James W. Evans, a pioneering researcher in bringing
mathematics and engineering technology into process metallurgy, will
receive the Clifford C. Furnas Memorial Award. The Furnas Award is
given to a graduate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
or the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics who has
distinguished himself or herself in the field of science, thereby
bringing honor to the university. A professor of metallurgy at the
University of California at Berkeley, Evans earned a doctorate in
chemical engineering from UB in 1970. He is a four-time award winner
from the American Institute of Metallurgical Engineers and the author
of more than 160 journal articles.
	Eitan S. Agai, a partner and vice president of Ammann &
Whitney, one of the nation's leading consulting engineering companies,
will receive the George W. Thorn Award honoring a UB graduate under
the age of 40 for outstanding contributions to his or her career field
or academic area. Agai's company is noted for its work on such
projects as the restoration of the U.S. Capitol, the Statue of Liberty
and Lincoln Center. Agai, who received a master's degree in civil
engineering from UB in 1983, serves as president of the American
Society of Civil Engineers-Metropolitan Section and an adjunct faculty
member in transportation engineering at Columbia University.
	Four UB graduates will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards.
They are:
	Michael Andriaccio (B.F.A., '74; M.F.A., '76) and Joanne
Castellani (B.F.A., '74; M.F.A., '76), members of one of the world's
foremost guitar duos. They are currently artists in residence at UB.
Featured in broadcasts on the BBC, CBC, PBS, Radio France and other
media outlets, they record on Fleur De Son Records.
	Frank Colantuono (M.B.S.,'77) president and chief executive
officer of Independent Health Association, Inc., one of the 20 largest
health maintenance organizations in the nation. Colantuono is a board
member of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County and the Greater
Buffalo Convention and Visitors Bureau. He works closely with students
and faculty in the UB School of Management.
	Franklyn G. Knox (B.S., '59; M.D./Ph.D. '65) dean of the Mayo
Medical School, Rochester, Minn. Knox is a former president of the
American Physiological Society, a researcher in NASA's Life Sciences
Division and former board member of the American Heart Association and
the National Kidney Foundation.