| VOLUME 31, NUMBER 32 | THURSDAY, June 22, 2000 |
A native of Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Albini came to UB in 1974 from the University of Vienna as a Max Kade fellow to study immunopathology.
In 1975, he was named a Buswell fellow and a year later joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology as an assistant professor.
Much of Albini's research focused on a wide range of autoimmune diseases, including lupus erthymatosus, systemic chronic serum sickness, Crohn's Disease and others related to kidney disease.
He was named a Fulbright scholar in 1991, and taught and conducted research in the Department of Experimental Pathology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
A compassionate, gentle and generous man who was ever-mindful of victims of the ongoing conflict in the Balkans, Albini traveled to Bosnia three years ago under the auspices of the International Medical Relief of Western New York.
His mission included continuing the organization's efforts to improve medical care and education, and to gather information critical in obtaining funds for the program.
Albini devoted many hours to community service, in one year alone volunteering more than 900 hours working for various community, university and international groups.
His service to UB included membership on the medical school's admissions committee and Faculty Council, and the Faculty Senate.
He was author or co-author of some 140 scientific publications and served as an associate editor or member of the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals.
A graduate of the University of Vienna, Albini had degrees in medicine and music. He also studied romance languages and the history of theater. He was an accomplished pianist, painter and playwright, and had done journalistic writing in Austria.
Elizabeth Cohen Harvey, former dean of the School of Social Work, died June 15 in Erie County Medical Center after a short illness. She was 80.
A native of Coatesville, Pa., Harvey came to Buffalo in 1957 after earning a bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
She worked with the Association for Retarded Children for many years, and was a senior medical social worker at Roswell Park Cancer Institute when she joined the UB social-work faculty in 1964 as an assistant professor and supervisor of a field-work unit. She was promoted to associate professor in 1967-the school at the time was known as the School of Social Policy and Community Services-and was named director of field work instruction for the school.
She was named associate dean in 1973, and at the time became the highest-ranking female administrator at the university, outside the School of Nursing.
She was appointed dean of the school in 1982 after serving for two years as acting dean.
Harvey retired in 1983 and was named dean emeritus in the 1990s.
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Boris Albini, 57, professor of microbiology
A memorial Mass will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in St. Joseph's University Church, 3269 Main St., Buffalo, for Boris Albini, professor of microbiology and research professor of medicine, who died Tuesday in his Williamsville home after a long illness. He was 57.
Elizabeth Harvey, former dean of School of Social Work
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