Reporter Volume 25, No.27 May 5, 1994


computer science
Named Fellow: Stuart C. Shapiro, professor of computer science and
chair of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest
Group on Artificial Intelligence, has been elected a Fellow of the
American Association of Artificial Intelligence.
	A member of UB's faculty since 1977, Shapiro served as chair
of the Department of Computer Science from 1984-90 and was acting
chair from 1978-79. He received his doctorate in 1971 from the
University of Wisconsin. The author of more than 100 technical
articles and papers, Shapiro has published several books, including
The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence which in 1987 was named
Best New Book in Technology and Engineering by the Association of
American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division.

MEDICINE
RECEIVES ALUMNI AWARD:
Robert A. Klocke, UB professor of medicine and physiology and chief of
the division of  pulmonary and critical care medicine , was honored
Feb. 26 by St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute at its annual Signum
Fidei Awards dinner in the Park Country Club. 
	Klocke, an alumnus of St. Joseph's, received his bachelor's
degree from Manhattan College and his medical degree from the UB
medical school.
In 1992, he was awarded the Stockton Kimball Award for research,
teaching and service. He is a past trustee of St. Joseph's.

libraries

Receives Rogers Award: Nancy Start, assistant librarian in the Health
Sciences Library, has received the 1994 Frank Bradway Rogers
Information Advancement Award. 
	Presented by the Medical Library Association and sponsored by
the Institute for Scientific Information, the award recognizes Start's
outstanding application of technology for the delivery of health
sciences information through her development and implementation of
MEDLIB-L. Start was also recognized through the University Libraries
Staff Recognition Program for her development of MedLIB-L as an
important service for those in biomedical librarianship and
information.