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"Comedy" (Routledge, 2005) by Andrew Stott, associate professor in the Department of English, has been translated into Persian and published by Nashr-e-Cheshmeh of Iran.

The U.S. Department of Labor has selected UB’s Buffalo-area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) as a winner of the 2008 Exemplary Public Interest Contribution (EPIC) Award for promoting equal employment opportunity. BEAM was one of just two non-profit organizations in the nation that were honored with this award by the Department of Labor. Headquartered in UB Engineering, BEAM is a cooperative educational enrichment program that has been helping prepare teen women and minority youth for careers in science, engineering and architecture.

Dorothy Taylor, associate professor in the Educational Opportunity Center’s English as a Second Language Department, has co-authored “Teaching English Language Learners, Grades 6 & Up.” It is the second in the series “Teaching English Language Learners, Grades K-5,” published by Scholastic.

Robert Genco, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the departments of Oral Biology and Microbiology, has received the New York State Dental Association’s highest honor, the Jarvie-Burkhart Award.

Henry Louis Taylor Jr., director of the Center for Urban Studies, delivered the 12th annual Billie Grace Goodrich Distinguished Lecture last month as part of American Education Week activities at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and College of Education, Health and Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Taylor's lecture was entitled "Reflections: Connecting the Academic Mission of the University to the Regeneration of Distressed Communities.