The University of Georgia will sponsor a national conference in March in honor of John J. Peradotto, Andrew V.V. Raymond Professor of Classics and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at UB.
Photo exhibits and lectures on such topics as current issues in Israel, tracing one's Jewish "roots" and "Survival in Sarajevo" will be among highlights of Jewish Awareness Month, to be held Feb. 9 through March 8 at UB.
Three natural-disaster movies featuring killer volcanoes that will hit movie and television screens this year are putting the spotlight on the expertise of volcanologists at the University at Buffalo.
Stephen L. Dyson, professor and chair of the Department of Classics, has been elected to his second two-year term as president of the Archaeological Institute of America.
The University at Buffalo has opened its first fiber-optic, real-time, distance-learning classroom, a completely interactive, full-motion, video learning and conferencing center.
Marina Boruk of Forest Hills, a senior in the Department of Biological Sciences, has been selected as the first recipient of the McCroskey Endowment Fellowship.
A $50,000 gift from a 1935 alumnus of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and his wife will be used to support the Museum of Neuroanatomy , housed in the Biomedical Education Building on UB's South Campus.
Martin Mahoney, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed to a two-year term as the American Academy of Family Physicians' resident representative on the Council on Medical Specialty Societies.
Bernard A. Weinstein, Ph.D., professor of physics, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society, an honor bestowed on only one half of one percent of the membership of each unit in the society.
The University at Buffalo is a lead institution in a new National Science Foundation program designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the physical sciences, mathematics, engineering and technology.
