Reporter Volume 26, No.23 April 6, 1995

MUSIC
OPERA AMERICA HONORS:
Gary Burgess, associate professor of music at UB and general director
of the Greater Buffalo Opera Company (GBOC), last month was honored by
OPERA America, the national not-for-profit service organization in the
field of opera.
   OPERA America honored Burgess, along with several other opera
notables, at a banquet in Washington, D.C., for his long and
distinguished service in the field of opera, and especially for his
work with GBOC.
	Burgess teaches voice and opera in the UB Department of Music
and directs the university's Opera Workshop. As a teacher, he also has
been associated with The Curtis Institute of Music, The Academy of
Vocal Arts, Temple University and the Eastman School of Music.
	In addition, he has taught at the Poulenc Conservatoire in
Tours, France, and in 1988, lectured, taught and performed in China
during a six-week scholarly exchange with the Beijing Teacher's
College.
	Burgess has degrees in voice and voice pedagogy from Indiana
University and the Curtis Institute of Music. He also has studied at
Rome's Academy of St. Cecilia, the Juilliard School and the Eastman
School of Music. He was awarded France's Prix Claude Debussy in 1984.

ROSWELL PARK
APPOINTED TO NIH STUDY 
SECTION:
Margot M. Ip, research professor, Pharmacology/ Roswell Park; a cancer
researcher in the Department of Experimental Therapeutics at Roswell
Park Cancer Institute, has been invited to serve as a member of the
Chemical Pathology Study Section, Division of Research Grants, of the
National Institutes of Health.
	She was selected on the basis of professional stature,
contributions to the fields of cell biology and endocrine oncology and
the quality of her research.
	She received her doctorate in biochemistry from the University
of Wisconsin.

PHYSIOLOGY
RECEIVES HEALTH CARE AWARD:
Leon E. Farhi, Distinguished Professor of Physiology at UB, has
received a Western New York Health Care Technology/Discovery Award
from The Heath Care Industries Association. The award, co-sponsored by
the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, honors those who
have made a difference in WNY health care.
	Farhi has studied the human circulatory system and
physiological problems of human lung-gas exchange for more than 35
years. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific
articles and abstracts.
	He was instrumental in developing new approaches for measuring
cardiac output and distribution of respiratory gases within the lungs
and tissues of the human body. Working with colleagues at UB, he
developed a technique to measure circulatory functions in a weightless
state that was applied by NASA in a space-shuttle flight in 1989.
	Farhi is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and
Biological Engineering and a member of the Biomedical Engineering
Society, the American Physiological Society and the American Heart
Association, among others. He served as chair of the UB Department of
Physiology from 1982-91. Born in Cairo, Farhi received his medical
degree from the Universite St. Joseph in Beirut.