Faculty Achievements

One College, Limitless Achievement

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The College of Arts and Sciences is UB’s largest and most diverse academic community on campus. Globally recognized for our world-class research and led by top scholars in the humanities, arts, sciences, mathematics and social sciences, we offer our students a wide variety of excellent instruction from a body of award-winning faculty. 

Faculty Achievements

  • College faculty, staff receive SUNY Chancellor’s Awards
    7/6/23
    This year's honorees from the College are Kate Ferguson, Luis Velarde, Jennifer Read, Erin Hatton, Hao Zeng, Joyce Lacy and Sherry Chemler.
  • Wolcott receives 2022 New Deal Book Award
    7/6/23
    Victoria Wolcott, professor of history, has received The Living New Deal’s 2022 New Deal Book Award for her book “Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement.”
  • Velarde receives MAC Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success
    7/6/23
    Luis Velarde from the Department of Chemistry was named a 2022-2023 recipient of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success.
  • Moore receives nod for 6888th Monument Project
    7/6/23
    Brenda L. Moore received a letter of appreciation from Commander Carlton Philpot, chair and project manager for the 6888th Monument Project. Moore’s book, “To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II” played a crucial part in Philpot's efforts to honor the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
  • Nowicki leads team to Richardson Medal
    7/5/23
    Nowicki, Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Geology, led an international ice sheet modeling team that received the first ever Richardson Medal given to a team from the International Glaciological Society.

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