September 22, 1994: Vol26n3: Honors

GEOLOGY, ELECTED CHAIR OF GEOLOGICAL UNIT:
Parker E. Calkin,  professor of geology at UB, has been elected 1994
chair of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the
Geological Society of America (GSA). The glacial geologist served as
the division's first vice-chair in 1993. A UB faculty member since
1965, Calkin has been a GSA member since receiving his doctorate from
Ohio State in 1963.
	Calkin was honored in February at the Buffalo Ambassadors'
Ball for his work in attracting the GSA's Northeastern Sectional
Meeting to Buffalo in 1996. He will serve as chair of the meeting.

PHARMACY, LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Gerhard Levy, distinguished professor of pharmaceutics in the UB
School of Pharmacy, has been selected to receive the 1994
International Lifetime Achievement in the Pharmaceutical Sciences
Award from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) for
Education and Research.
	A UB faculty member since 1958, Levy has received numerous
honors, including FIP's Host-Madsen Gold Medal, the organization's
premier award in the scientific field. 
	He also has received the Ebert Prize and the Research
Achievement Award of the American Pharmaceutical Association, the
McKeen Cattel Distinguished Achievement Award in Clinical Pharmacology
of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the American
Society for Pharmacology and Therapeutics' Oscar Hunter Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Experimental Therapeutics.
	
PHYSIOLOGY, NAMED FELLOW:
Leon E. Farhi, distinguished professor and former chair of physiology
at UB, has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Medical
and Biological Engineering. Farhi, who has authored or co-authored
more than 100 scientific articles and abstracts,
has served as editor-in chief of the Journal of Applied Physiology:
Respiratory, Environmental and Exercise Physiology, as well as an
editor of Undersea Biomedical Research.
	A director of the Biomedical Engineering Society, he has
served on review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the
Council of the American Physiological Society. He is the principal
investigator of two NASA-sponsored research projects to study
cardiopulmonary function in microgravity.