News Releases

Kenneth Dauber, professor and chair of the University at Buffalo Department of English, surveyed more than 2,100 of his fellow faculty members at the University at Buffalo this past summer.

Frank C. Zagare, professor of political science at the University at Buffalo, has been named chair of the department.

BUFFALO, N.Y.-- Expansion and upgrades in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing's computer laboratory are complete, thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust, for which Marine Midland Bank acts as trustee. The grant provided the remaining funds necessary to carry out a $55,000 project.

Stephen C. Dunnett, Ph.D., of Amherst, vice provost for international education at the University at Buffalo, has received the Merentibus Medal, the greatest distinction of merit conferred by Poland's Jagiellonian University. He accepted the award last month during ceremonies held in Kraków.

Actor Edward James Olmos, who won an Emmy Award for his role as Lt. Castillo in the popular television series "Miami Vice," will speak at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

The Asian Studies Program at the University at Buffalo will present three speakers in November who will address issues related to doing business in China, Korea and Vietnam.

The World Bank has proposed a strategy to promote environmentally sustainable development in the Middle East and North Africa, a region that is beginning to suffer from environmental degradation as a result of pollution, poor resource management and industrial development.

Lucia Benicka, curator of contemporary photography and arts for the Tatranska Galeria in Poprad, Slovakia, will present a slide lecture on rarely seen contemporary Slovakian photography at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Screening Room, Room 112 of the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

New, flexible semiconductors -- some of which were made with ordinary weatherstripping silicone and can be peeled right off their substrates -- have been developed by a group of University at Buffalo physicists.

Internationally renowned scholars of philosophy, literature, history and other fields will address the theme "Ethics and Values in Health Care and Medicine on the Frontiers of the 21st Century" at a University at Buffalo sesquicentennial symposium, to be held Nov. 15-16.