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  • Police investigating graduate’s death

    Buffalo police are investigating the death of Javon Jackson, who was shot on Main Street early Sunday morning, one day after graduating from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

    Jackson, 23, of the Bronx, had earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and was a member of the Order of the Engineer, the national engineering ethics society.

    According to police reports, he was shot while crossing Main Street between Highgate and Lisbon avenues with friends at about 3:15 a.m. Sunday.

    Jackson’s funeral will be held May 15 in Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, 1342 Odell Clark Place, between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. UB students and friends of Jackson in Buffalo may pay their respects from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 14 in Providence Memorial Chapel, 1275 Sycamore St., Buffalo.

    The Office of Student Affairs also is accepting cards and other messages for Jackson’s family.

  • Career expo offers opportunities

    Faculty and staff who may be rethinking their career path can attend a Career Connection Expo sponsored by UB’s Division of Continuing and Professional Studies.

    The event, which will offer participants information about opportunities in the life science, green and health care industries, as well as entrepreneurship, will be held from 3-8 p.m. Tuesday in Allen Hall, South Campus.

    Information also will be available about the life and career transition courses and workshops offered by the Division of Continuing and Professional Studies.

    The fee to attend the expo is $25. Advance registration is required

    For more details and to register, call 829-3131 or email mfcadmin@buffalo.edu.

  • Faculty selected as ARVO fellows

    Two faculty members in the Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, have been named to the inaugural class of fellows by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), the world’s leading eye research professional organization.

    Steve Fliesler, professor, vice chair and director of research, and Gail Seigel, research assistant professor, were among 100 of the more than 12,500 members of ARVO selected as fellows in recognition of their accomplishments, leadership and contributions to the association.

    ARVO is recognizing two levels of fellows—gold and silver—determined by a rigorous point system. Fliesler and Seigel both were named silver fellows.

    Fellows were officially inducted at ARVO’s annual meeting held last week in Fort Lauderdale.

  • New book publishes prison photos

    “Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture,” a new book by UB faculty member Bruce Jackson, has been published by Temple University Press.

    The book is a collection of old ID photos from Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas that Jackson acquired while visiting the prison in 1975. The 121 images were likely taken between 1915 and 1940.

    The book also includes a description of everyday life at Cummins in the 1950s, originally written by hand and presented to Jackson in 1973 by its author, a longtime inmate.

    Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture in the Department of English, has studied and documented the culture of prison life around the U.S. for more than 40 years.

    Photographs Jackson took inside Cummins in 1975 recently were exhibited in the Albright Knox Art Gallery and in the Kreps Gallery at Duke University.