A paper authored by Paresh Dandona, professor of medicine, has received the Finalist Award of The Endocrine Society and Pharmacia Corporation International Award for Excellence in Published Clinical Research in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in 2001. The award will be presented during The Endocrine Society Awards Dinner, to be held during the society's annual meeting in June in San Francisco.

Work by staff in University Communications won awards for UB in six categories in the 2001 Accolades competition sponsored by District II of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. News releases written by Lois Baker and Ellen Goldbaum in News Services won a gold award in the research, medicine and science news writing. Two silver awards were awarded for work by staff in Creative Services. Alan Kegler, David Riley and Karen Lichner worked on the football ticket brochure that received a silver award in the specialty pieces category. In the logos/nameplates category, a WBFO logo designed by Kegler also won silver. Bronze awards went to: UB Today, Ann Whitcher of News Services, editor, and Rebecca Farnham of Creative Services, art director, in the university and college general interest magazines category; an Honors Program brochure created by Farnham, Debra Bennett, Frank Miller and Reanna Kaopuiki, all of Creative Services, in the individual student recruitment publications category, and a basketball season ticket brochure by Kegler, Riley, Miller and Tom Putnam, all of Creative Services, and freelance designer Tim Stegner in the multipage publications category.

Erin E. Robinson, a graduate student in the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the first Lester W. Milbrath Environment and Society Institute Fellowship. ESI established the fellowship as part of the Lifetime Environmental Achievement Award it presented to Milbrath, emeritus professor of political science and sociology, and former director of the Environmental Studies Center, the forerunner of ESI. The $5,000 fellowship is awarded to a graduate student who has the potential to excel in interdisciplinary environmental study and research. Robinson's interdisciplinary research involves environmental contamination and understanding and analyzing the process of community mobilization among residents of the Love Canal and Hickory Woods neighborhoods.