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Raj K. Kaul, a member of the UB electrical engineering faculty for 42 years, died April 9 in Beechwood Nursing Home, Getzville, after a long illness. He was 86.
A native of Agra, India, Kaul earned a bachelor’s degree electrical engineering from Benares University, India. He worked at the National Physical Lab in New Delhi from 1948 until 1956, when he joined Columbia University as a fellow. He earned a doctorate in applied mechanics from Columbia, then joined the UB faculty as an associate professor in what is now known as the Department of Electrical Engineering.
During his tenure at UB, Kaul received several teaching awards, authored and co-authored approximately 150 journal publications, and served on numerous university-wide and departmental committees. More recently, he was guiding dissertation and thesis work for three students, as well as working on a book on mathematics.
Donations in Kaul’s memory may be made to the UB Foundation, PO Box 900, Buffalo, NY, 14226.
A private service will be held for Edward W. Doty, UB vice president emeritus for finance and management, who died April 22 in his home in Oxford Village at Canterbury Woods, Amherst. He was 89.
A native of Lakeland, Ohio, Doty graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College before continuing his studies at Rutgers University.
As a member of the U. S. Army’s Quartermaster Corps, he was in charge of procurement for the chemistry and metallurgy division of the Manhattan Project Laboratories in Los Alamos, where the first atomic bomb was developed.
After leaving Los Alamos, he worked for Sylvania Electric Products, moving to Western New York in 1966 to take a position as vice president of the Sylvania Electronic Systems Division and general manager of the division’s central operations in Amherst.
In 1968, Doty joined UB as vice president for operations and systems. During his 20-year tenure at the university, he oversaw the budget during a recession, the university police during the campus riots and campus parking during a time when commuter students complained vigorously about the lack of parking.
Upon Doty’s retirement from the university in 1988, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee approved a citation that praised his “complete integrity.” He also was honored as vice president emeritus, the first person in the SUNY system to hold that title.
He was a former chairman of the business council of the State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, and a former board member of the Buffalo Area Chamber of Commerce.
He also was a longtime member of theUB professional group Scriptores.
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