University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson will give his annual, and final, community address to Western New York residents at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, in Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.
Donna M. Fernandes, president and CEO of the Buffalo Zoo, and John R. Koelmel, president and CEO of First Niagara Financial Group, Inc., have been named the 2010 Buffalo-Niagara Executives of the Year by the University at Buffalo School of Management.
The Sept. 9 issue of the New York Times included an article about an important new art exhibition scheduled to open Oct. 30 in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution: "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture." It is the first major museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture and marks a major distinction in the career of art historian Jonathan D. Katz, PhD, a new associate professor in the University at Buffalo Visual Arts Department where he will direct the new doctoral program.
Mark Gottdiener, PhD, of Buffalo, professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo and one of the nation's leading urban sociologists, has received the 2010 - 2011 Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished career achievements in community and urban sociology from the American Sociological Association (ASA).
A growth-factor chain of action that prompts bone marrow stem cells to repair cardiac tissue and reverse heart failure has been identified by researchers at the University at Buffalo's Center for Research in Cardiovascular Medicine. Results of the discovery of this distinct heart repair action appear online as an article-in-press in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart Circulation Physiology.
Michael Dell, CEO and chairman of Dell, and David Dunn, UB vice president for health sciences, will announce formation of a major, multi-million-dollar research partnership that will impact health care in Western New York and throughout the state.
Michael Dell, president and CEO of Dell, announced today the company is making a $15 million investment in computer equipment and services to support launch of the University at Buffalo's new Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
Since joining University Police as chief in July 2006, Jerry Schoenle has brought a level of professionalism to the University at Buffalo that has inspired improvements in his own and other SUNY departments.
Henry Richardson III, an international law scholar with a special interest in Africa, will deliver this year's Mitchell Lecture at the University at Buffalo Law School 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, in 106 O'Brian Hall on UB's North Campus.
The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts will present Augusten Burroughs -- A One Night Stand! on Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus. There will be a book signing following the event.
