Awards

News about awards and recognition earned by UB and members of our community. (see all topics)

Steinfeld to receive Haecker award for leadership in architectural research
7/28/14
He is the third architect with UB ties chosen for the prestigious honor.
Five named UB Distinguished Professors
7/24/14
Five faculty members representing the health sciences and engineering have been named University at Buffalo Distinguished Professors for 2014. The appointments are effective Sept. 1.
Fiebelkorn wins prestigious ‘Bowl of Hygeia’ award for community service
6/30/14
Karl D. Fiebelkorn, MBA, associate professor of pharmacy practice in the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is the recipient of the 2014 Bowl of Hygeia Award for outstanding community service.
UB physician receives abstract award for research on Type 1 diabetes and liraglutide
6/26/14
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Nitesh D. Kuhadiya, MD, assistant professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Medicine, has won an award for his abstract “Liraglutide as Additional Treatment to Insulin in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomized Clinical Trial.”
UB professor receives major award for book on democracy, rhetoric and rights
6/23/14
Arabella Lyon, PhD, professor of English and director of the Center for Excellence in Writing at the University at Buffalo, has received the 2014 Book Award from the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) for the best work in rhetorical study published in 2013.
CEL program honors emerging minority and women entrepreneurs
6/20/14
Sherman Washington has been named Protégé of the Year by the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs (MWEE) program, a joint venture by the University at Buffalo School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and the UB Center for Urban Studies.
Prosperity Scholarship at UB again expands to a record class
6/20/14
The University at Buffalo’s Prosperity Scholarship program welcomes its newest class of young, promising scholars, the biggest selection of students in the scholarship’s history and the program’s latest statement claiming many of Western New York’s best and brightest students as its own.
Former School of Social Work dean receives CSWE Lifetime Achievement Award
6/20/14
The Council on Social Work Education – the nation’s most respected social work education organization – has honored University at Buffalo School of Social Work Dean Emeritus Lawrence Shulman with its Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award.
Antibiotic developed 50 years ago may be the key to fighting ‘superbugs’
6/18/14
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Scientists at the University at Buffalo are turning to an old class of antibiotics to fight new superbugs resistant to modern medicine.
UB vision scientist is elected to board of world’s largest eye research society
6/12/14
Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, Meyer H. Riwchun Endowed Chair Professor of Ophthalmology in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been elected to the board of trustees of the world’s largest eye research society, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).