Faculty Achievements

Fornarola received the New York State Dance Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award
5/26/22
The prestigious award is given for exemplary leadership, scholarship and/or artistry and philanthropy or service to dance education.
Professor Millie Chen and Arzu Ozkal present Silk Roads Songbook
12/15/21
Silk Roads Songbook is a socially driven, interdisciplinary, multilingual project that weaves songs into the land, broadcasting unruly voices on a major ancient Eurasian migration route, challenging Orientalist exoticism, cultural tourism, and censorship.
Yang recognized by Society for Risk Analysis with achievement award
12/10/21
The UB communication professor has been recognized for her work in risk analysis.
Six named Association of Psychological Science Fellows
12/10/21
Julie Bowker, Larry Hawk, Jamie Ostrov, Michael Poulin, Jen Read and Mark Seery were awarded.
Castro, Heffner, Knowles awarded New Investigator Research Grants
12/10/21
Only 10 are awarded annually by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation.
Briner receives Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award
12/10/21
The award recognizes truly exceptional faculty mentoring of graduate students at UB.
Green holds the 20th Century Club Professorship
12/10/21
The support provided by the 20th Century Club funding will allow Green to continue her research activity while also serving in the key administrative chair role.
Paras Prasad receives prestigious IEEE award
10/28/21
The honor recognizes Prasad’s groundbreaking contributions to the development of multiphoton materials and technologies.
Yige Dong named ACLS Early Career Fellow
10/28/21
Yige Dong received a 2021 early career fellowship from the American Council of Learned Studies (ACLS) Luce program for China Studies.
Aga wins Fulbright Award
9/27/21
Aga, director of the UB RENEW Institute and Henry M. Woodburn Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, will travel first to Portugal and then to the Philippines to complete her Fulbright Global Scholar Award.
Nereson named New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dance Research Fellow
9/14/21
Nereson was selected from a robust pool of applicants to explore the complex relationship between dance and democracy.
Yang awarded the Society for Risk Analysis Chauncey Starr Award
9/14/21
This is awarded to any member age 40 years or younger for outstanding achievement in science or public policy relating to risk analysis and exceptional promise for continued contributions to risk analysis.
Shimojo chosen for prestigious Meyerson Award
3/19/21
College of Arts and Sciences faculty member Mitsuaki Shimojo is one of this year’s winners of the President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring, the highest university award for undergraduate mentoring.
Koudelka elected fellow of American Academy of Microbiology
3/15/21
The Department of Biological Sciences researcher and senior associate dean for research and sponsored programs is among 65 individuals elected to the American Academy of Microbiology’s 2021 Fellowship Class.
Handley-Cousins wins book award
3/24/21
The Department of History's Sarah Handley-Cousins received the Disability History Association's 2020 Outstanding Book Award for "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North."
Elizabeth Otto wins major book award
1/11/21
Elizabeth Otto's "Haunted Bauhaus" has won the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association’s 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize.

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