VOLUME 32, NUMBER 22 THURSDAY, March 1, 2001
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John Naughton, professor of medicine and former dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Associated Medical Schools (AMS) of New York at the group's annual Deans' and Trustees' Dinner on April 26 in New York City. The award recognizes Naughton's long service to the organization, including his tenure as president in which he spearheaded a restructuring of the AMS to strengthen its statewide scope.

Alan Posner, clinical assistant professor of surgery, and Kennon Miller, assistant professor of urology, conducted the first laparoscopic kidney nephrectomy-kidney-removal surgery-in Western New York last week at Erie County Medical Center. The surgery was conducted on a woman who donated her kidney for transplant to her daughter. This advancement in kidney-removal surgery is less invasive for the living donor patient, resulting in less pain and faster recovery. Joseph Gerbasi, clinical associate professor of surgery, serves as surgical director of ECMC renal transplantation.

Frank C. Zagare, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, recently published a book titled "Perfect Deterrence" (Cambridge University Press). Co-authored with D. Marc Kilgour, professor of Mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, the book is the first general analysis of deterrence since the end of the cold war. One reviewer has stated that "'Perfect Deterrence' is the most insightful and comprehensive book on modern deterrence theory ever written."

Four scholars from across the globe are conducting research at UB this academic year as part of the Visiting Fulbright Scholar Program. They are David Hodgson, postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories, University of Toronto, who is working in the Department of Chemistry; Lillian Meei-jin Huang, professor, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, working in the Department of Linguistics; Gabor Janos Pauler, assistant professor, Department of Management Science, Faculty of Business and Economics, Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary, working in the Department of Marketing, and Metaxia Tsipopoulou, senior archaeologist, Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Athens, working in the Department of Art History.

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