News Releases

Rosemary G. Feal, Ph.D., professor of Spanish, has been named chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo.

A generous gift from the Frank G. Raichle Foundation in memory of Raichle, a 1919 University at Buffalo graduate who was a prominent trial and appellate lawyer, has allowed UB Law School to establish its first named professorship.

With an entry that judges said showed "an understanding of human nature reminiscent of Twain," a University at Buffalo philosophy professor has won the top prize in an international writing competition in which 520 entrants wrote the ending to an unpublished story by Mark Twain.

Have we developed the collective wisdom and conscience to deal with a world in which ubiquitous technological interactions are so intertwined that they cannot be untangled? Let's hope so, because that's what our future holds. "Digital Frontier: Buffalo Summit 2001," a major international conference to be held Nov. 2 and 3 at the University at Buffalo, will present observations and research on what digital technology has wrought by some of the most brilliant, pioneering thinkers in art, social science, applied science and engineering, medicine, philosophy and education.

Richard J. Traystman, Ph.D., recognized internationally for his discoveries involving brain circulation and metabolism, will present the 10th annual Hermann Rahn Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. on Oct. 25 in Room G-26 of Farber Hall on the University at Buffalo South (Main Street) Campus.

Rush Limbaugh's loss of sensory inner-ear hair cells, a condition that likely contributed to his hearing loss, could lead to changes in his brain that would allow him optimize use of his remaining hearing, research being done at the University at Buffalo indicates.

More than 50 second- and third-year law students from University at Buffalo are expected to participate in the 2001 Charles S. Desmond Moot Court Competition to be held Oct. 22-26.

Two students in the University at Buffalo School of Management have been awarded scholarships by the American Business Women's Association (ABWA).

Bruce D. McCombe, professor of physics and associate dean for research and sponsored programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has been named a SUNY Distinguished Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees.

With the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon now one month ago, this is the time when cases of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in those who witnessed the events in person or through the news media will start being diagnosed, according to a psychologist at the University at Buffalo.