Randall E. Borst, previously director of Services for Students with Disabilities and ADA coordinator at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Ind., has been named director of the Office of Disability Services.
Paulette Tempro, associate professor of periodontics, has received the Distinguished Dental Alumni Award from the SUNY-Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine in recognition of her hard work and dedication to the field of dentistry.
Stanley Bruckenstein, Ph.D., of Amherst, A. Conger Goodyear Professor of Chemistry, will receive the Award in Electrochemistry from the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
Efforts to raise awareness of the importance of private support and its lasting impact on UB have entered the world of cyberspace with the launching of the Office of University Development's new Web site.
Marjorie A. White, professor of nursing and director of UB's Center for Nursing Research, spent part of the spring semester as a visiting professor in the Department of Nursing Science at the University of Tampere in Finland.
Gaynor and Florence Jacobson, each a 1996 recipient of an honorary doctorate in humane letters from the SUNY in recognition of their lifetime of exemplary humanitarian service, have given $50,000 to the UB School of Social Work.