November 10, 1994: Vol26n10: HONORS

MEDICINE
INVESTIGATOR OF YEAR:
Timothy Murphy, professor of medicine at UB and head of the Division
of Infectious Diseases at the Buffalo VA Medical Center, has been
named investigator of the year by the American Federation of Clinical
Research -- Eastern Region. 
	Murphy, director of the Microbial Pathogenesis Graduate Group
at UB, heads two five-year research projects studying organisms that
cause middle-ear infections in children and adult lung infections. He
is co-developer of a vaccine soon to undergo trials to determine if it
can provide protection against middle-ear and lung infections. 
	
DENTAL SCHOOL
TO HEAD DENTISTRY ACADEMY:
Renzo Nylander, a clinical instructor in the UBSchool of Dental
Medicine and dental director of the Wyoming Correctional Facility in
Attica, has been elected president of the New York State Academy of
General Dentistry. The statewide organization has some 2,500 members.
	A native of Sierra Leone, Nylander is a 1973 graduate of the
UB dental school. He is an attending dentist at Buffalo General
Hospital.
	Nylander, who serves as a dental missionary to Haiti and is a
dental consultant at St. Croix Hospital in Leogane, is a fellow of the
Academy of Dentistry International and the Academy of General
Dentistry.

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
WINS NEW FACULTY AWARD:
David Kofke, assistant professor of chemical engineering at UB, has
been selected to receive the 1994 American Society for Engineering
Education Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award for the St. Lawrence
section.
	The award is given to a young engineering educator in the
upstate New York, Lake Ontario or Quebec areas to recognize excellence
in teaching.
	A UB faculty member since 1989, Kofke is a 1990 recipient of a
Presidential Young Investigator Award. His research interests lie in
the areas of thermodynamics, statistical physics and molecular
simulation. 			Kofke, who recently received the SUNY
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, earned his doctorate at
the University of Pennsylvania.