News Releases

As the millennium nears, the hype surrounding Y2K -- or the Year 2000 -- seems to have died down. But Lewis Mandell, dean of the University at Buffalo School of Management, says it may be that we're already in the eye of the Y2K storm, and the damage won't be apparent until the arrival of the new year has blown over.

Carlos Pato and Mary Anne Rokitka have been named to positions in the Dean's Office of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

A retired General Electric executive and UB graduate has used his business acumen to leverage a gift for scholarships to UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

UB law students Kevin Dolan of Franklinville and Charles Cobb of Perrysburg won the Charles S. Desmond Moot Court Competition held at UB last month, earning them a spot on the Buffalo Moot Court Board.

Matter, anti-matter, dancing molecules and "green" chemistry will make an appearance at a UB symposium for high-school students and their teachers called "Quarks, Biomolecules and Polymers: Modern Science and Technology at UB Today," to be held from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 20 in 121 Cooke Hall on the UB North Campus.

University at Buffalo dental educator and researcher Joseph R. Natiella, D.D.S., and Henry Spiller, D.D.S., who advocated the addition of fluoride to public drinking water to prevent dental decay, were honored by the UB Dental Alumni Association at the group's recent reunion dinner dance.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet will be featured in "Christmas With Brubeck" at 8 p.m. Dec. 11 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.

The University at Buffalo and IBM Corp., the world's largest computer manufacturer, have signed a memorandum of understanding in which the two parties will collaborate on research and development of new technologies, education, training and placement of UB students, and delivery of educational services and business systems.

Members of the UB faculty and staff have been honored by a number of professional organizations.

The Hon. Mark Farrell, Amherst town justice and past president of the UB Alumni Association, will discuss his award-winning "drug court," believed to be the first of its kind in a suburban setting, during the UB Senior Alumni luncheon, to be held at noon on Nov. 18 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.