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Joseph R. Natiella and Henry Spiller were honored by the Dental Alumni Association at the group's recent reunion dinner dance. Natiella, a professor in the Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences in the School of Dental Medicine and a nationally known oral pathologist, received the Honor Award. Spiller, a 1935 graduate of the UB dental school who advocated the addition of fluoride to public drinking water to prevent dental decay, received the Humanitarian of the Year Award.

Carolyn A. Ingram, a doctoral student in the School of Nursing, has received one of 15 Woodrow Wilson-Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grants in Women's and Children's Health for 1999 from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The $2,000 grants encourage original and significant research related to women's and children's health from a public-policy perspective. Ingram's dissertation is titled "Predictors of Weight Gain in Premenopausal Women in Early State Breast Cancer."

Elaine T. Stathopoulos, chair of the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed editor for "speech" for the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, one of the primary journals in the field.

The University of Delaware Press last month published "Leslie Fiedler and American Culture," a festschrift honoring Leslie Fiedler, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel Clemens Professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prometheus Books also has published "A New Fiedler Reader," a collection of Fiedler's fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

Stuart C. Shapiro, professor of computer science and engineering and a member of the Center for Cognitive Science, was a member of a team of UB and Amherst Systems researchers to receive a Space Act Award from the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board "for inventions and other scientific and technical contributions that have helped NASA to achieve its aeronautical and space goals." The team was recognized for "Foveal Machine Vision for Robots Using Agent Based Gaze Control."

The Office of Student Activities staff won two awards at a recent meeting of the National Orientation Directors Association (NODA): Outstanding General Orientation Brochure for "Your Passport to UB" and Outstanding Multimedia/Technologies for introducing MyUB-a customized portal, or Web site, that provides freshmen with myriad information about UB via Web links and announcements-at orientation. Staff members also gave two presentations at the meeting: "Using Technology To Personalize Your Orientation" and "Creating A Campus-Specific Text For Your Freshman Year Experience Course."

Daniel Jay, an inspector with University Police, and Harvey Axlerod, computer discipline officer for Computing and Information Technology, have co-authored a paper, "Crime and Punishment in Cyberspace: Dealing with Law Enforcement and the Courts." They presented the paper earlier this month in Denver at a meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group: University and College Computing Services, 1999, more commonly known as SIGUCCS99.