Thomas Burrows, director of the Center for the Arts, has been elected first vice president of the Theatre District Association of Western New York. The group represents businesses of downtown Buffalo's Theatre District.

Ruth D. Bryant, assistant dean in the School of Architecture and Planning, has been reappointed chair of the Board of Directors for the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.

David J. Triggle, University Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is the only UB scientist—and one of only three SUNY scientists—included on a recent list of most cited scientists by the Institute for Scientific Information. Citation counts are widely recognized as an indication of the impact of a scientist's work. The institute publishes lists of the approximately 100 most cited individuals in 21 broad subject categories in the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences. Triggle was included in the pharmacology category.

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, assistant professor of anthropology, received a Rockefeller Bellagio Residential Fellowship to finish her book, "Shamans of the Cinnamon Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among the Chilean Mapuche." Bacigalupo will be at the Bellagio Center in Italy from June 25 through July 23.

Isaac Ehrlich, Leading Professor and chair of the Department of Economics and Melvin H. Baker Professor of American Enterprise, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Orleans, France, in a ceremony to be held at the university in late March.

The SUNY Learning Network has received the Award for Excellence in ALN Faculty Development from the Sloan ALN Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of more than 80 institutions of higher education that deliver and promote online learning. The SUNY network was recognized for providing comprehensive training to a diverse group of faculty members who taught online courses that enrolled approximately 25,000 students this past year.