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Michael Basinski, curator of the Poetry Collection, is discussing UB’s significant Robert Graves holdings at the ninth annual international Robert Graves Conference being held this week at St. John’s College, Oxford University. Basinski gave a talk titled “Robert Graves Online” and will present a paper on early Graves’ manuscripts on Sept. 12 in a session titled '"A Painful Process: Robert Graves at Work.” He also participated in a roundtable discussion, “Accessing Robert Graves,” with Michael Riordan, archivist of St. John’s College, in which they discussed a proposal for a Web-based location register for Graves’ manuscripts and letters. UB has the largest collection of Graves’ poetry in the world, as well as the original typescript of the first edition of “The White Goddess” and a corrected first edition copy of the book. The collection totals 275 publications by and about Graves, excluding anthologies, periodical appearances and broadsides.
Tamara Thornton, professor of history, has received the 2008 Ralph D. Gray Article Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) for her article "'A Great Machine' or a 'Beast of Prey': A Boston Corporation and Its Rural Debtors in an Age of Capitalist Transformation," which was published in the Journal of the Early Republic. This summer, Thornton was the invited co-director of SHEAR-Mellon Summer Seminar in Early American History. The seminar, funded by the Mellon Foundation and presented under the auspices of SHEAR and the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for the Study of Early America, awards fellowships to 10 undergraduates from around the country who come to Philadelphia for three weeks of directed study and research in Philadelphia archives.
Linda M. Harris, associate professor of surgery and director of the vascular surgery residency program, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery at the society’s 62nd annual meeting in San Diego. Her election to the society was based on her scholarly research activities, creative professional activities and teaching excellence.
Michael G. Caty, professor of surgery and pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been named to the newly endowed John E. Fisher M.D. Chair in Pediatric Surgery at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. Caty also is surgeon-in-chief and director of pediatric surgical services at the hospital.
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