Reporter Volume 26, No.5 October 6, 1994

COMPUTER SCIENCE ELECTED FELLOW: 
Stuart C. Shapiro, professor of computer science at UB and chair of
the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence of the
Association for Computing Machinery, has been elected a fellow of the
American Association for Artificial Intelligence, a nonprofit,
scientific society devoted to the advancement of artificial
intelligence.
	A member of UB's faculty since 1977, he served as chair of the
Department of Computer Science from 1984-90 and as acting chair from
1978-79.  He has authored more than 100 publications and  four books,
including "The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence," named Best
New Book in Technology and Engineering in 1987 by the Association of
American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Div. 


CHEMISTRY RECEIVES MEDAL:
Stanley Bruckenstein, A. Conger Goodyear professor of chemistry at UB,
has been awarded the Faraday Medal by the Electrochemistry Group of
the Royal Society of Chemistry. The medal is given every two years to
a distinguished electrochemist who is working outside the United
Kingdom. Bruckenstein accepted the award Sept. 12, in Edinburgh,
Scotland.
	A UB faculty member since 1968, he was chair of chemistry from
1974-83. Author or co-author of  200 research articles, he received
the Society for Electrochemistry's Charles N. Reilley Award  in 1991
and a Heyrovsky Centennial Medal in 1990 from the J. Heyrovsky
Centennial Congress on Polarography.


NURSING NAMED FELLOW:
Judith S. Ronald, associate professor of nursing and coordinator of
nursing informatics in the School of Nursing, has been named a fellow
in the American Academy of Nursing. Recognizing outstanding
contributions to the field, fellow status in the academy is one of the
highest honors that can be conferred upon a nurse.
	Ronald is a pioneer in the field of nursing informatics, which
applies computer and information science to information management in
nursing. Her work led to a monograph, "Guidelines for Basic Computer
Education in Nursing," that is the primary resource on the topic for
schools of nursing.