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Harry L. Metcalf, MD '60 & BA '56, has had a long association with the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, achieving the rank of clinical professor of family medicine.

The University at Buffalo Alumni Association will honor an entrepreneur and the former president and CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises Inc. during the UB Alumni Association Achievement Awards ceremony to be held at 6:30 p.m. April 8 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the North Campus.

Despite retiring in 2010 after holding a number of positions for the UB Libraries, Judith Adams-Volpe maintains ties to the university through her service and gifts.

Gina Bronkie Hammond, MS '73, is recently retired from full-time work after nearly 40 years of progressively challenging positions within the computer science field.

Tilmon "Tim" Brown has been partner, president, and chief executive officer of New Horizons Baking Company since 1995. Prior to that he was the corporate vice president and director of sales for Continental Baking Company, where he worked for almost 30 years.

Born in Amristar, India, John Kapoor received his undergraduate degree in pharmacy from Bombay University and dreamed of coming to the United States for graduate work. The University at Buffalo provided financial support that enabled him to earn his doctorate in medicinal chemistry from the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1972.

D. Jackson Coleman, MD '60, is a retina specialist with expertise in vitreo-retinal surgery, a technique he pioneered. His strong interest in physics led him, together with Frederic L. Lizzi, to create the first commercially available B-scan ultrasound equipment for the eye.

Western New York companies have the opportunity to improve their operations and achieve measurable gains by hosting students enrolled in the University at Buffalo's Six Sigma Black Belt Student Certification program in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Robert Gosende, recently retired special assistant to the SUNY Chancellor for International Programs, the John W. Ryan Fellow in International Relations at the University of Albany, and ambassador to Somalia at the height of that nation's 1992-93 humanitarian crisis, will present a free public lecture about recent developments in North Africa and the Middle East on March 28.

Like most people who don't personally know someone who needs a transplant, University at Buffalo student Alex Teschemacher hadn't considered becoming a bone marrow donor. But in the fall of 2009, while walking through the UB Student Union, he and a friend came upon a National Marrow Donor Program recruitment drive sponsored by the UB Prehealth Advising office. On the spur of the moment, they decided to register.