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Kenneth Regan, associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "Low-Level Complexity and Hard Concepts."

The poems "These Memoirs" and "Laura Among the Shakes" by Irving Feldman, SUNY Distinguished Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, were published in the Summer issue of Paris Review.

The American Chemical Society has recognized the work of the Western New York Younger Chemists Committee (WNY YCC) with a Local Section Younger Chemist Committee Award. The group, composed of graduate students in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, was honored for a number of activities, including hosting an annual graduate-student symposium, volunteering at local elementary schools and the Buffalo Museum of Science to perform "hands-on" experiments during National Chemistry Week, holding career-counseling seminars and working with teachers and scientists to improve science-teaching methods.

Isaac Ehrlich, Leading Professor of Economics and executive officer of the Department of Economics, has been appointed an honorary professor at City University of Hong Kong by a vote of that university's faculty senate and approval by the university president. Ehrlich, who also serves as Melvin H. Baker Professor of American Enterprise in the School of Management and director of the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise Systems, has been a member of the board of advisors to the Hong Kong Center of Economic Research at Hong Kong University since 1992, and from 1992-94 was visiting professor and manager of "The Economics of Transition" project at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Rabbi Shay Mintz, who has served and inspired Jewish college students at the UB-based Hillel of Buffalo for 13 years, will be honored with a Bar Mitzvah Year of Service on Nov. 4. The 13th year is traditionally cele-brated at a Bar Mitzvah cere-mony when Jewish males make the transition into adulthood.

A research project using high-frequency sound waves to disinfect wastewater has earned Bethany Madge, a doctoral student in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, first prize in a national competition sponsored by the Water Environmental Federation.

Loss Glazier, associate librarian and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of English, has had his book, "Digital Poetics: Hypertext, Visual/Kinetic Text and Writing on Programmable Media," accepted for publication by the University of Alabama Press.

A review of Samuel A. Hay's book, "Ed Bullins: A Literary Biography," by Nathan Grant, assistant professor of African American studies, appears in the current issue of African American Review.

Claire Kahane, professor of English, participated in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies' First Annual Seminar for Faculty Teaching Holocaust Courses.