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Paras Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, has been honored by the State University of New York for his "singular contribution to scholarship and the reputation of the university." He was one of 14 UB faculty members honored for their research.

Morton Feldman. George Gershwin. Paul Hindemith. Arnold Schoenberg. Edgard Varese. Five world-renowned composers who, to the surprise of many, also were avid artists or had strong ties to the art world. The composers' deep connections to the visual arts form the basis of "The Composer's Eye," an exhibition at the University at Buffalo of works of arts created and/or admired by the five composers that serves as a complement to this year's June in Buffalo festival and its theme of "Music and the Visual Image."

Students at the University at Buffalo recently were inducted into the Omicron Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.

A psychology professor at the University at Buffalo is conducting a new study that will look at auditory perception of drug names and develop a software program that will address the problem of confusing prescription nomenclature, labeling, packaging and handwriting, a problem that the National Institute of Medicine estimates results in more than 7,000 fatalities a year.

Marlene M. Cook and Melinda R. Saran, two longtime staff members of the University at Buffalo Law School, have been promoted to the rank of vice dean.

The chair. Many view this humble device simply as a means -- sometimes comfortable, sometimes not -- to "take a load off." But for architecture students who completed the seating design assignment in Abir Mullick's "Senior Studio" this spring in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, the chair became something more.

Murray Levine, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, will be honored by his peers on June 5 for his contributions to the field of community psychology, of which he is considered to be a founder.

Two faculty members in the University at Buffalo School of Informatics and a former faculty member will receive of one of the most eminent awards presented by the American Library Association (ALA) on June 21 at the association's annual conference in Toronto.

Rep. Thomas Reynolds and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will receive Igniting Ideas Awards for their leadership in support of the University at Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics at a UB Business Partners Day luncheon to be held at noon on June 6 in the Adam's Mark Hotel.

When the economy turns sluggish, where are the job opportunities? All over the map, if you've got a graduate degree in geography. That's been the experience of graduate students who completed their master's or doctoral degrees in the University at Buffalo's Department of Geography this month, all of whom have found good jobs that take full advantage of their degrees.