January 19, 1995: Vol26n13: FACULTY & STAFF BILLBOARD

Sister/Brotherhood
awards to be presented
Nelson Townsend, director of the Division of Athletics at UB has been
named a co-chairperson with Wendy T. Stahlka for the 1995
Sister/Brotherhood Week of the WNY Region of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews (NCCJ). Stahlka, a member of the Board of
Directors of NCCJ, is vice chair of the Board of Directors of the
United Way of Buffalo and Erie County.
	Townsend and Stahlka will preside over the1995
Sister/Brotherhood Awards Luncheon to be held Jan. 26 in the Hyatt
Regency Hotel.
	Among those receiving Sister/Brotherhood awards at the
luncheon are: D. Bruce Johnstone, chancellor of the State University
of New York from 1988-94 and a professor at UB, Leadership; Anne
Rogovin, author and educator and Milton Rogovin, documentary social
photographer and adjunct professor of American Studies at UB, Arts;
J. Warren Perry, dean emeritus and professor emeritus, UB School of
Health Related Professions, Health; Robert Kresse, chair of the Martin
House Restoration Corp. and a member of the Success by Six Task Force,
Community Service and Volunteerism; Jenny Galante, a senior at
Hutchison Technical High School and a participant in the STEP Program
at UB for three years, Dr. Joseph Manch /NCCJ College Incentive
Scholarship.
Law school names
Olsen to new post
R. Nils Olsen, Jr., professor of law in the UB School of Law, has been
named to the new position of vice dean for academic affairs.
	Olsen will oversee the implementation of the school's new
curriculum, designed to help bridge the gap that has historically
existed between law school and practice. The law school received $1.1
million from New York State to begin to implement the innovative
program.
	Olsen also will be responsible for long-range planning,
evaluation and self-study, enrollment targeting, and faculty
recruitment, promotion and tenure. He will retain his responsibilities
as director of clinical education and continue his research in federal
post-conviction remedies and environmental policy.
	A 1974 graduate of the Columbia University School of Law,
Olsen joined the UB law school in 1978 after serving as a lecturer and
clinical fellow in the University of Chicago School of Law. Before
that, he had been a clerk to Chief Judge Thomas E. Fairchild, Seventh
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
Campbell retires
from User Services
After 31 years of service, Roger Campbell has retired from the User
Services group in Academic Services, Computer and Information
Technology. Campbell was a consultant for both database and tape
applications.
	He began working for User Services in 1961 as a student
assistant while he was pursuing a degree in electrical engineering. He
became a professional computer programmer at the Computing Center in
1962 and held various supervisory positions throughout his career. A
gourmet cook, Campbell continues to moderate the "DIET" Listserv
electronic discussion list.
	Campbell has moved to Richmond, Va., where he will work for
E.D.S., managing a group of Oracle database programmers. E-mail sent
to his username on the UB systems will automatically be forwarded to
him in his new location.
	Most of Campbell's duties have been assigned to Richard
Kucharski, who also belongs to the User Services group.
Preventing drug theft
subject of program
The UB School of Pharmacy and the Pharmacists' Association of WNY will
present a dinner program on the problem of drug theft and diversion in
the pharmacy profession tonight in the Buffalo Marriott, 1340
Millersport Highway.
	The program will begin with registration and a cash bar at
6:30 p.m., followed by a lecture at 7 p.m. and a buffet dinner at 8
p.m.
	Donald E. Bogardus, president of Medical Management Systems in
Phoenix, Ariz., and a nationally recognized consultant on drug
diversion, will speak on the motivations of people who divert drugs
from health-care facilities. He will address the categories and
methods of narcotic theft, and different ways to modify drug handling
policy to reduce the possibility of theft. He also will deal with
legal and humanitarian issues on the confrontation and treatment of
narcotic-diverting, health-care employees.
Kennedy wins 
book award
A UB faculty member and her co-author have won an American
Sociological Association (ASA) award for their critically acclaimed
book, "Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold" (Routledge, 1993), an oral
history that documents working-class lesbians of the 1940s and '50s.
	Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, UB professor of American Studies
and Women's Studies, and Madeline D. Davis, chief conservator and head
of preservation for the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, will
receive the Jessie Bernard Book Award at the ASA's annual meeting next
summer. The award is given to recognize scholarly work that has
enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass the role of women in
society.
	The book evolved from the authors' 14-year study of a
mid-century bar community in Buffalo. Its narrative was developed from
dozens of oral histories.
	Kennedy was one of the original planners and faculty sponsors
of UB's Women's Studies Program. A graduate of Smith College, Kennedy
received her doctorate from Cambridge University in England.
Vacco to speak at
UB luncheon in NYC
Dennis C. Vacco, who became New York State attorney general Jan. 1,
will be keynote speaker at the UB Law Alumni Association's luncheon,
to be held Jan. 26 in the Union League Club in New York City.
	Vacco, a member of the UB law school class of 1978 and a
former U.S. attorney for the Western District of New York, will speak
about his plans and priorities for the New York State Department of
Law. At the luncheon, being held in conjunction with the New York
State Bar Association's annual meeting,
	Barry B. Boyer, UB law school dean, will update alumni on
changes in the law school.
	For more information, call Ilene Fleischmann, alumni
association executive director, 645-2107.
UB team second
in bridge competition
Engineering students from UB placed second in the New England
structural-steel bridge competition held at the University of Maine at
Orono in December. University of Massachusetts at Amherst took
first-place honors.
	The competition was co-sponsored by the American Society of
Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Steel Construction The
UB truss-bridge entry was 20 feet long, 3 feet wide and weighed 170
pounds. Stuart Chen, assistant professor of civil engineering, was
student advisor.
	Bridge team members are Maria Balingit, Greg Ball, Blaise
Blabek, Steve Bock, Patricia Broderick, Sam Coggswell, Anthony Cypert,
Chris Day, Jonathan DePlanche, James Elmer, David Evers, Joseph Holm,
Katherine Kooistra, Michael Lamanna, Guy Mason, Mike McManus, Matt
Mroz, Niki Shute.
	Also assisting in the UB project were Dick Cizdziel and Dan
Walch, affiliated with the National Center for Earthquake Engineering
Research at UB. Tredo Engineers, Acres International and Jansen-Kiener
Engineers were corporate sponsors.
36 inducted into
national engineering
honor society 
The New York Nu Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, national engineering honor
society, has inducted 36 UB students into the society for
distinguished scholarship and exemplary character. 
	Seniors inducted are: Timothy Dunn, Gregory Hanchar, Todd
Heckleman, Peter Hunt, Soultana Kotini-Stoltz, Eric Lia, William
McAllister, Brian Miller, Karen O'Neill, David Rimmeli, Robert
Sanetick, Stacy Schumacher, Brian Sibiga, Lucky Tenudjaja.
	Juniors inducted are: Jeffrey Bornheim, Debra Butts, Jir-Shyr
Chen, Richard Cyganovich, Grant Davidson, Paul DeMarco, Thomas Dougan,
Carolyn Ellinger, David Eyngorn, Brian Gregory, Holly Gurbacki,
Christopher Hausler, Ke Huang, Natalie Klompstra, Burt LaFountain,
Joshua LaPenna, Foo Kwang Lee, Brian Maltbie, Jonathan Railsback,
Daniel Seider, Brett Wehmann and Ju-Yeun Yoo.
	Tau Beta Pi designated four faculty members as "eminent
engineers": Mark Karwan, associate dean, School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences and professor of industrial engineering; Eli
Ruckenstein, distinguished professor of chemical engineering; Andres
Soom, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and Darold
Wobschall, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.