Reporter Volume 26, No.24 April 13, 1995

MEDICINE
RECEIVES HONOR:
Julian L. Ambrus, research professor of internal medicine in the UB
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and president of the
Catholic Physicians Guild of Buffalo, has received Pontifical
Knighthood of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
	Ambrus, a UB faculty member since 1955 and professor emeritus
at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, is the author of more than 500
professional journal publications. He is the editor-in-chief of
Journal of Medicine and Reviews of Hematology, and serves on the
editorial board of Hospital Formulary. 
	While at Roswell Park, Ambrus served as chair of the
Department of Experimental Pathology and director of cancer research.
	He recently was named a distinguished alumnus of Jefferson
Medical College Graduate School in Philadelphia, where he received a
doctorate in medical sciences. He received a medical degree from the
Sorbonne Graduate School of Science, Institut and Hospital Pasteur, in
Paris.

CLASSICS
HEADS ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE:
Archaeologist and art historian Stephen L. Dyson, professor and chair
of the Department of Classics at UB, has been elected president of the
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).
	The AIA is a non-profit, cultural, scientific and educational
organization founded in 1879. Its 11,000 members are dedicated to the
encouragement and support of archaeological publication and research,
and to the protection of the world's cultural heritage.
	A UB faculty member since 1991, Dyson specializes in Roman
archaeology, Roman social and economic history, and archaeological
theory.
	His field work includes excavations at Buccino and Cosa in
Italy, Oristano Province in Sardinia, and Soisson, France. He is the
author of "The Creation of the Roman Frontier" and "Community and
Society in Roman Italy."
	He has published widely in classics journals, including The
American Journal of Archaeology, where he was the former assistant
editor. He has lectured at universities and archaeological conferences
throughout the U.S.
	Dyson has received many academic honors during his career,
including several fellowships and research grants from both the
National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of
Learned Societies.
	A summa cum laude graduate of Brown University with highest
honors in classics, he received a diploma in classical archeology from
Oxford University (England) as a Fulbright scholar. He holds master's
and doctoral degrees from Yale University.