Reporter Volume 26, No.8 October 27, 1994 

CHEMISTRY. HONORED BY SYMPOSIUM:
Colleagues, fellow researchers and former students honored George H.
Nancollas, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UB and chair of the
Department of Biomaterials, with a three-day symposium at a recent
national meeting of the American Chemical Society. Organized to
recognize Nancollas' many contributions to biomaterials and industrial
science, the symposium brought researchers from Japan, Australia and
many European countries. 
	Nancollas' work "has been critical to understanding the
mechanisms of crystal growth and inhibition," said Zahid Amjad, who
coordinated the symposium. Amjad, research and development fellow in
the water science section at BF Goodrich, was a postdoctoral
researcher at UB under Nancollas from 1976-79.
	Nancollas, also a professor of urology in the UB School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is 
a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
the Royal Society of Chemistry and the University of Wales.


PSYCHOLOGY. ON NATIONAL COUNCIL:
R. Lorraine Collins, senior research scientist at the Research
Institute on Addictions (RIA) and research associate professor in the
UB Department of Psychology, has been appointed to the National
Advisory Council on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). The appointment, through November, 1997, was made by Donna
Shalala, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
	The 12-member council advises the Director of the NIH, reviews
grant applications, and recommends action to stimulate additional
research on drug abuse.
	

MEDICINE. CHAIRS PEDIATRIC GROUP:
Richard T. Sarkin, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics, has
been elected chair of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association's Special
Interest Group on Medical Student Education.
	The group provides a national forum for medical educators to
exchange ideas and make recommendations on curricular structure and
teaching methodologies for medical students. 
	A UB faculty member since 1981, Sarkin is director of the
Teaching Effectiveness Program in the UB School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences.