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shortform Douglas Levere, BA ’89 Qian Wang (left) and Adel Sadek are newly arrived at UB. Academic Insight On the go A new transportation research specialization at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will provide New York State’s government agencies and municipalities with access to innovative technologies and systems that address critical transportation issues facing the region and the nation. As a first step in the development of the specialization, UB has appointed its first transportation engineers, Professor Adel W. Sadek and Assistant Professor Qian Wang of the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. “The new transportation engineering emphasis at UB fills a critical research need in the upstate New York region, particularly in light of deteriorating infrastructure, rising fuel costs, and the need to serve a diverse and aging population with ‘intelligent’ and environmentally sustainable technologies,” says A. Scott Weber, chair and professor of the UB Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, in which the specialization is based. “Many of our nation’s transportation systems were built in the 1960s, and they are now at the end of their life,” he says. “It’s a huge issue to figure out which components to rebuild and how to optimize appropriations, given budgetary limitations. This need is even more critical given the uncertain financial times we face in New York State and the nation.” UB People Steps to sustainability With UB a signatory to the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, more than 200 faculty, staff and students took part in the UB Sustainability Forum, “Planning for a Climate Neutral Campus,” October 21, 2008, on the North Campus. The new engineering building under construction on the North Campus is an example of UB’s institutional commitment to environmental stewardship, says Robert G. Shibley, chair of UB’s En- University News vironmental Stewardship Committee (ESC), professor of architecture and planning and point person for UB’s comprehensive physical plan. The project, he notes, is being built to higher environmental standards than those mandated by SUNY. Construction related to UB’s growing presence on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and additional student housing adjacent to the Ellicott Complex on the North Campus also are expected to meet these higher standards, he adds. “Annually, UB uses enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for 243,788 years,” says Michael Dupre, associate vice president for university facilities and chair of the energy subcommittee. “That same bulb has to be lit for 24 years for every student who graduates. We leave a legacy of energy use for everything we do.” Dupre says great cost savings also can be achieved by retrofitting existing buildings to conserve energy. A greater percentage of UB’s annual capital funding budget goes toward infrastructure replacement than new construction, he points out. Assuring quality in HIV/AIDS clinical pharmacology A $7.6 million, seven-year contract awarded to the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will provide the funds to train in-country laboratory specialists where HIV/AIDS infection rates are highest globally, test their proficiency and conduct quality control analysis of HIV/AIDS clinical trials. Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the award establishes a Clinical Pharmacology Quality Assurance (PQA) program and laboratory in the UB Pharmacotherapy Research Center on the North Campus, and at the Translational Pharmacology Research Core in the New York State Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences in downtown Buffalo. The UB PQA program and laboratory—the only one of its type in the world—will assure that AIDS researchers in developing countries conduct the highest quality clinical trials. The UB program and lab will be integrated with global research networks to target some of the regions where the infection rate is highest. Gene Morse “We are excited about this opportunity to use our expertise and facilities to help fight the global AIDS epidemic,” says Gene D. Morse, professor and associate dean for clinical and translational research, and principal investigator. “This award highlights our expertise in this critical area.” 8 UBTODAY Winter 2009 www.alumni.buffalo.edu
seenreadheard books, music and films by UB alumni Books Voices in a Mask By Geoffrey Green, PhD ’77 Turning on images of disguise in literature, theater and opera, this short-story collection explores themes of identity and subterfuge while touching on Don Giovanni, Tosca, Rigoletto and more. Author Geoffrey Green, professor of English at San Francisco State University, weaves librettos and scores together with authentic biographies of singers and composers, contemporary settings, and imaginative twists. (Northwestern University Press, 2008) Lauren Fix’s Guide to Loving Your Car By Lauren Fix, BS ’86 Lauren Fix, cohost of Talk 2 DIY Automotive on the DIY Network, offers straightforward and fun advice on caring for your car—so that you can actually enjoy driving and owning one. “Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines, this is definitely a must read,” says David Pezzino, professional coach and founder of Success Within Reach Inc. (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008) Go to www.buffalo.edu/ubt for more titles and submission guidlines. Last Call: Alcoholism and Recovery By Jack H. Hedblom, PhD ’71 Through powerful first-person narratives, psychotherapist Jack H. Hedblom provides compelling insights into the minds and hearts of addicted drinkers, and reveals the road to recovery as a journey of self-discovery, change and hope. (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) Clothing Optional: And Other Ways to Read These Stories By Alan Zweibel, BA ’72 In Clothing Optional, Alan Zweibel—one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live—offers a collection of laugh-out-loud personal narratives, essays, short fiction, dialogues and even a few whimsical drawings. “This book made me sick—that I didn’t write it,” says comedy writer Larry Gelbart. (Villard, 2008) The Northwest Green Home Primer By Kathleen O’Brien, BA ’70, and Kathleen Smith Sustainable design and building consultant Kathleen O’Brien and her colleague Kathleen Smith offer advice on making green home decisions that are both down-to-earth and cutting edge. Though written with a regional focus, The Northwest Green Home Primer is a timely and practical green home manual for readers across the country. (Timber Press, 2008) Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States Edited by Josh Lukin, PhD ’03 & MA ’00 Were the 1950s an oppressive or a liberating time? Editor Josh Lukin, lecturer in English at Temple University, has assembled a collection of essays that analyze the many ways in which the decade’s culture stigmatized women, minorities and the poor, while offering new perspectives on U.S. literature of this period and its uneasy relationship with the culture at large. (University Press of Mississippi, 2008) Hurricane Katrina, Response and Responsibilities (Second Edition) Edited by John Brown Childs, PhD ’75 The voices in this book represent critical and personal responses to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. According to editor John Brown Childs, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the new foreword and afterword of this second edition “make the connections between the specifics of Katrina and the overall social-economic vulnerabilities facing millions in the U.S. today.” (New Pacific Press, 2008) Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby By Kevin H. Siepel, MA ’73 Rebel is the first complete biography of John Singleton Mosby (1833–1916), one of the Confederate army’s highestprofile officers who was known especially for his cavalry battalion’s continued and effective harassment of Union armies in northern Virginia. The book also covers Mosby’s long and turbulent postwar life. “A splendid portrait,” wrote the Richmond Times-Dispatch. (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place Edited by Elizabeth Willis, PhD ’93 Elizabeth Willis, who teaches poetry and poetics at Wesleyan University, collects essays by leading poets and scholars that make a major contribution to the study of Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970), an important but long overlooked American poet. (University of Iowa Press, 2008) www.alumni.buffalo.edu UBTODAY Winter 2009 9
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